Monday, November 03, 2025

Flag on the Play AI Let Me Down

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My latest coding involves an attempt to memorize nautical signal flags. I’ve played with this idea in the past but never had the time to rea...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Unexpected Help With Coding Projects

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Fair warning, this is a post in two parts. First a project idea and second musings on the tools I used to create it. I really do like to w...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

User Interfaces and Microwaves and Artificial Intelligence

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It seems like just about everything has a user interface these days. It is sometimes hard for me to question them. What sort of decisions go...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

An Interesting School Year in Computer Science Education

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Mike Zamansky is Looking at the start of school for 2025 on his blog C’est la Z He’s thinking about phone bans and AI in schools. I have be...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Tiny Book of Simple Cryptography

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For the last several years, I have been playing around with simple cryptography. I have made some of results of this available as a free PDF...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Has Computer Science Education Become Too Vocational?

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That’s the question Mark Guzdial asked in a recent post on the CS Education Facebook group . He references an article ( Labor Market Outcome...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Reading Code For Fun and Learning

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For some time I have been writing up information about some historic, and simple compared to modern, cryptonymic algorithms. They are collec...