Tuning forks were originally used to “tune” musical instruments. Their shape allows them to produce a very “pure” tone (which I’m not sure what it means). They are also a building block of the quartz crystal powering watches, and because it vibrates at a precise frequency it can be used to keep time. Wikipedia

Notes on The UNIX Time-Sharing System paper

The RaspberryPi Pico was released earlier this year and I haven’t seen this much hype since the Arduino or the original RaspberryPi. It looked good, and it is very cheap (you can get one for less than 4£) so i got one to play around. from raspberrypi.com Why am i writing this ? There are plenty of good tutorials, examples, and books for the RaspberryPi Pico, so anything i write about here is most likely available somewhere else. But for my own benefit I decided to explore the different key features of the Pico and document them in a series of posts. Read more

I have accumulated a lot of random ideas that i want to transcribe and in doing so organize them into into coherent thoughts. So i decided to start a blog. After lots of yak shaving and messing around with static site generators i decided to just get started with my first post, the reasoning is once the first one is out there the next ones will be easier.So to bypass this mental block, i’ll just dump some ideas i want to write about. Read more