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Single Board Computer Frustration
2016-01-21
I’ve been eyeing up several reasonably priced ARM/SBC systems for a bit now. Let me clarify that my definition of reasonably priced. I mean anything around $35-$65 USD. I know what you’re thinking cheap skate. Yeah, okay fine. I’m on a budget and yet you’re still reading this. I wanted something that could have multiple purposes. Something to do retro game emulation, install and play with FreeBSD or OpenBSD, maybe use as a router.…
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Migrating to a Static Blog
2015-09-16
What an interesting turn of events. I started writing this blog post with my intentions fully moving away from Ghost , which is written in NodeJS, to Pelican , written in Python. I wrote mostly a whole article about choices I was making. All of which were in the direction of Python. I mostly wrote off Ruby as a “hipsters” language. So I decided to stear clear as much as possible.…
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Android vs iOS
2015-01-12
While I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, I’ve been moving myself more towards the BSD systems. Given being a Linux user, I waited with bated breath for OpenMoko to be released. Then came Android. OpenMoko never made it I was anxious and thrilled when Android finally came out. A Linux phone finally in production. I’ve used Apple computers since the early G4 Tower’s (late 90’s), I was pleased with OS X but not so with iOS.…