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Posts of 2017

7805 Adventures

Ah, the 7805 voltage regulator. Easy to use and indestructable - right? But there are some gotchas. And in one project I managed to run into not just one, but two of them!

Posted on: 2017-01-17

Amazon: Made in Deutschland!

Amazon is a German company! Really? No, of course not, but looking at how hard it is to get their things to speak English, one might as well think so.

Posted on: 2017-02-12

The TrackR

The TrackR Comes with an App, batteries and lots of false advertising

Posted on: 2017-02-17

Going through my virtual attic: Ulsop

Early attempt to write my own operating system (or at least shell). I'm going to write three blog posts on various systems, this is the first one about the earliest one that survived

Posted on: 2017-02-22

Going through my virtual attic: ILAS

Early attempt to write my own operating system (or at least shell). This is part 2 of 3.

Posted on: 2017-03-03

Living with Alexa

The Echo Dot makes you feel like you live on the Enterprise or some other spaceship ... except ... in a weird alternate reality where you have to wander through dark corridors and turbolifts get stuck all the time

Posted on: 2017-07-26

Go Wix your Jimdo in a Squarespace

Damn all cloud-hosted proprietary Content Management Systems!

Posted on: 2017-08-01

Domain Scams

Look Scammers. Scammers everywhere

Posted on: 2017-08-28

Repairing a Whirlpool washing machine

Posted on: 2017-08-29

Chrome: We can show errors quicker if we don't even try

A brief story about setting up an IPv6 VPN

Posted on: 2017-11-18