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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
How I set up new computers with Slackware Linux
I've installed Slackware 15.0 a lot in the last couple months. So I decided it was finally time to write up a page about the process (whether I'm qualified or not!) while it's...
Forth: The programming language that writes itself
I gave this talk at work today. It's full of amusing drawings and should still make a fair amount of sense without hearing my commentary. I've attempted to unlock what makes...
It's done at last! I put my whole digital life on hold to finish this game jam entry...
Super happy with this little Vim thingy I've been wanting to make for a long, long time. It turned out to be way easier than I'd expected thanks to Vim's typically weird but...
I just finished drawing 78 Tarot cards in 52 days. I'm not gonna lie, it feels good...
MC2023 Chapter 1: Hello World and blinking LEDs
First follow-up to The Year of the Microcontroller. This "chapter" wraps up the first eventful week of my year-long foray into MCs. I think you (YOU!) will dig what became of...
minslides - Easiest Presentation Slides Ever?
I'll be giving a presentation fairly soon and I needed something simple. So I made something simple in about an hour after work today...
The Year of the Microcontroller
Guess what? 2023 is The Year of the Microcontroller! Well, it is in MY house...
Dave's OpenBSD Blog 5. Tour conclusion
Whoooosh! That's the sound of me getting this done in the year 2022 so I have one less thing on my plate for 2023! I review six more book chapters and give my conclusions so far...
Dave's OpenBSD Blog 4. Servers and X
Two more OpenBSD chapters complete. The exploration continues...
My guided book tour of OpenBSD continues. Highlights include the ports system and /etc info. Nothing too exciting...
Wow! I just self-published a real physical illustrated children's book. I did the watercolor illustrations in my sketchbook in 2017, but it took until now to assemble the book...
Meow5: An Extremely Concatenative Programming Language
My Assembly Nights: "Season Two" project now has its very own page and maaaayyybe also a cute logo. If you just can't get enough assembly and Forth-like programming madness, or...
In one of those eerie "out of the blue" coincidences, I found myself thinking this morning about Aaron Swartz. It turns out today was his birthday: November 8, 1986...
During Assembly Nights Season One (porting JONESFORTH to NASM), I kept having ideas for other Forth-like things I'd like to try. But I was good: I wrote them down and stayed the...