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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
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 and publish it through Amazon. This is so cool...
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 if you like cute logos, I've got what you need...
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 course with the port. But when the port was done, one of...
Another FORTH interpreter roams the Earth! It's my NASM assembly port of JONESFORTH. Because I'm a human being, it was over a year in the making. "Unfortunately, no one can be told what FORTH is. You have to write one for yourself."...
RSS Club* Wow, I wasn't expecting yesterday's rant to appear HN. My only regret is that I didn't state my actual frustration well and I was clearly misunderstood...
RSS Club* HATE-FILLED RANT: What the hell is going on at my local public school system?
I now have two machines set up to auto-login and I love it. These instructions may apply to some non-Slackware Linuxes as well. Also, gnome-keyring-daemon needs some UI help...
I was afraid I'd lost the beginings of a new project when my old EeePC (circa 2007) drive finally became corrupted. But I was able to do the simplest, stupidest recovery you can imagine to recover the project...
RSS Club* Exclusive SECOND followup to the previous "nosurf" post. Getting closer and closer to the truth...
(OLD PERSON RANT WARNING) It turns out, I do regret posting this to my Virtual Box of Cards. But not for saying it. I stand by what I wrote here for now. Also, this new title isn't much better, but at least it's still pretty short...
My OpenBSD exploration begins! Well, began a while ago, but now I'm SeRIouS about it. This first post is about the installation experience...
RSS Club* Hey, if you read my feed, I guess you care what I'm up to. So Mastodon is what I'm up to! Check it out.