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Dave Gauer
Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.
Latest Posts
RSS Club* Exclusive follow-up and tell-all about the last post. Contains: Three positive personal outcomes reply-guys hate...
I've been deliberating it for a month. I know I'll be explaining this for a long time to come, so I might as well make a page I can point to...
I tried an experiment in intentional relaxation. Maybe it's kinda obvious in retrospect, but I think it's already changed my life. I'll definitely be doing this again in the future...
I've almost certainly forgotten some of my favorite utilities, but at least I've got most of them here. I recently discovered Modern CSV and Scribus and I didn't want to forget about them (I don't need to edit CSV files or make print...
I started to write the spoken content for my little Forth talk and it just sort of...kept growing. I'm proud to announce the completion of this massive article about the past, present, and future of the Forth programming language.
I have succeeded at plowing through a month's worth of failure to arrive at the next stop on my microcontroller adventures...
After a long hiatus, I'm back on the Zig train. Choo choo! You know, I don't see a lot of people addressing what I *personally* find difficult about Zig, so I've collected my thoughts here...
That last entry felt a bit unhinged, but it truthfully describes the meta-task that has been occupying my head for weeks. Thankfully, I've found some peace with the idea of identifying "tracks" of time in my days and organizing my...
Have I reached peak time fragmentation? I knew I was doing a lot of different projects, but I had no idea I was juggling *this* much...
It finally dawned on me that I should write up summaries of the [computer science] papers I read and put them somewhere so the thoughts aren't lost forever. Here's the first one. Prepare to raise your fist in the air as Peter Naur tells...
This was a really great "chapter" for me. I'd done some I2C with Micropython before, so I decided to tackle something more challenging with an OLED display. I ended up writing some tools in Zig to stream cat pictures to my device! Check...
It's alive! I did the math and made a thing move in the real world. Also dusted off the oscilloscope for this one...
I'm back on track! This second "chapter" of The Year of the Microcontroller is finally complete...
RSS Club* Exclusive FOURTH "nosurf" post. Distractions can't compete with these two techniques. The only problem is that they're both pretty indulgent...
I wonder what it would be like if we all approached software development with a "build it twice" mentality...