I’m now doing the final touches to the formatting of the E-book and printed versions of Far Inside The Arduino: Nano Every Supplement. Not really overjoyed with that title, but I do need to emphasize it as being supplemental to all the operational descriptions in the original Far Inside The Arduino book. I did do …
I’m pondering the direction of the new book covering the Arduino Nano Every and the ATmega4809 microcontroller. There are considerable differences in the implementation of this board compared to the ATmega328P based boards like the Arduino Nano and Uno. My first book, Far Inside The Arduino, covered using the Uno (and similar) board directly controlling …
No book progress this month as I’ve been caught up in the holidays. Also, just became a grandfather, so there is that as well. I’ll attempt to get the next book finished in January. Happy holidays!
I heard about, purchased, and read this fascinating book Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, by Matthew G Kirschenbaum. It tells the history of word processing on computers, but primarily from the viewpoint of the writer. This is a scholarly work with 80 pages of footnotes! Using a computer instead of a typewriter …
SEO! It used to be all you needed was a cleanly laid out website to get good placement in Google Search. No more. Now the site needs to be tailored for what Google wants to see. Gotta use HTTPS. Even if there is no reason to have a secure connection, and there certainly is no …
Illustrations in my recent books use a font that I purchased years ago for my teaching, Museo and Museo Sans. Back then I wanted something that would look distinctive and eye-catching (yes, I wanted students to read the handout) while being readable and easy on the eyes. The rounded elements really stand out. When it …
Actually, my desk is very long, but here is the portion of it I’m usually facing: I’ve got a 27″ iMac with a second display, a 27″ 4K LG that I keep my calendar and OmniFocus (planner) windows on when I don’t need the extra screen space. The keyboard is a 1989 Northgate OmniKey/102 which …
After decades of hand coding 20th century HTML I’ve decided to set up a WordPress site. I’ll primarily use this as a blog. The other site, almy.us, is not going away. I’m keeping this as simple as possible, with an absence of distractions.