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uConsole::The Best Pi Mini Console You Won’t Have Any Time Soon

I often carry a Pi with me when I go out to deployments. They have the tools that I need for certain diagnostic purposes and are easy to travel with. Usually, I need to just bring a keyboard and network cable along and it is ready to be used. The latest Pi based system that … Continue reading uConsole::The Best Pi Mini Console You Won’t Have Any Time Soon

 Please Provide an Offline Mode | Opinion

With the apparent ubiquity of internet connection, more applications not only support online functionality, but require it. When perform an update of an application a month ago, I decided to keep an instance of the previous application in place. The new application, though it retained the old functionality in some sense, moved that functionality to … Continue reading  Please Provide an Offline Mode | Opinion

Use Convolutions, Not Randomness | Opinion

Random functions can be useful. There is even specialized hardware in many processors for generating random numbers. That said, there are some situations where the requirements as written from a user perspective call for randomness, but I’ve learned to have an inclination to avoid it. Thinking about projects I’ve worked on over the past decade, … Continue reading Use Convolutions, Not Randomness | Opinion

Mixing Rendering Technologies on Windows | DirectX

Windows has many methods of rendering images to the screens. Those include GDI, Direct3D, Direct2D, DirectWrite, XAML, Windows Forms, Win2D, and WinUI. Windows 10 brought support for mixing some of these rendering technologies. through XAML islands. There are other ways of mixing the rendering technologies. I was interested in mixing Direct3D with GDI and Direct2D. … Continue reading Mixing Rendering Technologies on Windows | DirectX

Programmatically Turning Off the Screen

I sometimes work on systems that control displays that run for most of the day. But there are “quiet hours” during which those screens show no content, and we would rather them be turned off. Having some downtime saves on resources, including the life of the display. The way this is handled differs from one … Continue reading Programmatically Turning Off the Screen