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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.
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I call it my "log system" and I've been keeping it for almost a decade. Read all about my notebooks (96 and counting), the digital transcription, and the meaning of life. And...
Personal Linux Setup with Git Repos and Stow
I had a dream: A low power, always-on computer I could SSH into from any other computer in the house. All of my projects and data in Git repos available for cloning and updating...
** RSS Club ** | Great Software Engineering Books Give Me Pain
*RSS Club Exclusive** This is a bit of a rant, but I want to get it off my chest and I'm tired of unloading this stuff on my long-suffering wife.
Really pleased with how easy it is to examine the parts of the voxel destruction physics game Teardown. Gotta "hack" games for the kids, you know. :-)
Over the last three months, I've developed an unusual little nighttime routine: after reading bedtime stories to the kids, I hop into bed and instead of reaching for a fiction...
I'm very excited to have finished a hardware project: a productivity "multitimer" based on the Raspberry Pi Pico (PR2040 microcontroller). It has a keypad for timer categories...
Websites with designs that appear to end at the bottom of the screen have always been a problem. But I've run into some examples lately that have actually confused me.
I'm making good on my earlier promise to start publishing more of my notes in public so others can benefit from them and where I am more likely to find them myself! Here's my...
** RSS-CLUB EXCLUSIVE! *** I want to put more of my personal collection of notes up here on this website, right out in public. Here's why!
This is an idea I've been mulling over for a long time: keeping a personal timeline of history. By "personal" I don't mean a timeline of things in my own personal life. I mean a...
(RSS-Club: this missive is feed-only. Hello readers!) I'm getting in on this whole "humans.txt" thing. Anything to make the 'Web and 'Net a little more weird/personal/delightful!
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**RSS Club*** Shhhh! It's a secret! This is my first feed-only article. Check it out!
Dave's Raspberry Pi Zero Luggable
I made a cardboard "laptop" or "luggable" computer featuring a 7-inch LCD display and a Raspberry Pi Zero. It was a fun weekend project that scratched an itch I've had for a...
Decode I2C data with an oscilloscope
I figured out how to decode I2C serial data from a microcontroller to another device with my Siglent SDS1202X-E Oscilloscope and it was totally awesome! I put together this...