Archive for the 'Misc' Category

The no-longer-secret bass stompbox project

Friday, January 6th, 2017

Updates on the not-widely-known Seltzer program are delayed, because I am finishing up the super secret bass stompbox project. It’s not fancy, it’s just badly needed. Every BYTE HEAVEN project exists because I need one and nobody else is making it. The project, code named “Reluctant,” is proceeding nicely. Circuit boards and components are in […]

Why aren’t there more women programmers?

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Wondering why it’s so difficult to convince more women to go into tech? Maybe you’re asking the wrong question. Here’s an exercise. Think about what you did today. Imagine that you were solving a problem at work. If it seemed like an intractable problem, and every time you thought you’d found the solution, it turned […]

Rage-quit Macbook purchase update

Friday, November 11th, 2016

It has been something like six months since Microsoft’s “Get Windows 10” shenanigans angered me enough to go buy a Macbook. I still love it, but the honeymoon period has worn off a bit. My logic was always, “if Microsoft wants to be Apple this desperately, why not just get a Mac?” And sure enough, […]