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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.
Latest Posts
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 and LCD display for elapsed minutes in each category. It is...
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 notes from today's excursion into getting Apache working with...
** 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 timeline of general history containing only events that...
(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!
**RSS Club*** Shhhh! It's a secret! This is my first feed-only article. Check it out!
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 long time. Motivation and pictures in the article!
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 guide (with pictures!) for noobs like me.
Though much of it is sparsely commented, the Zig standard library is quite readable. Nevertheless, being told to "go read the source" is intimidating. How can we make it easier to explore the library source?
I've finally added a feed to the site! This link is very meta.