In 1986, Fred Brooks wrote “No Silver Bullet”, later collected in his seminal work, The Mythical Man-Month. His thesis was that no single development, in either technology or management technique, would deliver even a tenfold improvement in software productivity within a decade. Well…

Previously I wrote about porting Android 16 to my favorite phone of all time, the Palm PVG100 (pepito).

This post is about a small bump to Android 17.

I’ve built a tool-assisted autosolver to solve the Bubblewonder Abyss level of the Logical Journey of the Zoombinis…

Previously I wrote about getting a new version of the Linux kernel booting on my favorite phone of all time, the Palm PVG100 (pepito).

This blog post is about my (enormous) effort of porting Lineage 23.2 (Android 16) to the phone, running version 4.19 of the Linux Kernel.

I’ve been bringing up my Palm PVG100 to run on Android 16 using a custom ROM.

In doing so, I’ve been wondering how good I could get its tiny tiny tiny battery to last.

Also, I wanted to make sure my new ROM didn’t have any serious battery life regressions compared to the stock Android 8 OS.

I’ve blogged about my favorite phone of all time, the Palm PVG100, before…

I’ve been debugging computers for my whole life.

One of my earliest computer debugging memories was splicing my own null modem (serial) cable connecting two 386s to play DOOM with my brother. With no internet or manuals, I somehow figured out how to run dm.exe and get it working over 100’ for lots of summer fun.

I’ve written before about getting custom motorized blinds for all my windows at my new house.

They are great. So for my new Dream Office, I wanted to also have blinds, but I wanted them to be “perfect”.

Perfect here means: I never want to have to adjust them, they should do exactly what I would have done, as if they were reading my mind.

I have a first gen Silhouette Portrait hobby cutter that I’ve had for over a decade.

It is great!

It can cut heavy cardstock up to 8.5" wide. I’ve used it to cut many different projects over the years…

Bloom’s Taxonomy is one of my favorite models for how we learn.