Thursday, August 13, 2026

MacBook Air 11 - still great after all these years

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I hand down my old laptops and phones to the kids who happily use them for years. Sometimes I try to hand down an update and are met with re...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Tech Talk on ABC - Is AI killing the goose that laid the golden egg?

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For more than a year many web sites have reported a dramatic decline in traffic, pointing to a broader structural change in how the web is b...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Great interview with home brewer Paul VK3HN

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Paul is an inspiring QRP home brewer. Great interview on a recent podcast.  https://youtu.be/Rkd1o2PQI9M?si=gzKmEFHAueIDsdYK Recommended.
Sunday, August 09, 2026

Single step debug on a PICO

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As you might guess, I'm really getting in to using the Raspberry Pi PICO for embedded development. If I can do a job in MicroPython I wi...
Saturday, August 08, 2026

Running ML on a Pico

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Before the days of FreeDV RADE (which uses multiple machine learning models to turn speech to features, transmit data over HF, and turn the...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Mineral Radio

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  Made me chuckle browsing AliExpress. (Seems a little over priced if you ask me).
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Sunday, August 02, 2026

AI tools causing an improvement in software quality

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I just saw the announcement of NetBSD 11. Software that has been around for many years. What struck me was this comment: As you are probabl...
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FreeDV Sunday net

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Nice net this morning with VK2, VK3, VK4 stations participating. A few new stations which is always good to hear. Again I ran the net using ...