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October 1, 2023July 4, 2024

Commodore 64 As A Service

Commodore 64 as a Service was a fun way to learn Flask for Python using Connexion to support an “API first” implementation.

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March 24, 2023February 11, 2024

Yum Yum Donut

In February, I stumbled upon the BASIC 10Liner Contest, an extreme challenge of creating an entire retro video game in 10 lines of BASIC code. BASIC was the de-facto language of the home computing revolution in the late 1970s through the 1980s. The first Apple, Atari, and Commodore (and other) computers shipped with BASIC as…

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January 22, 2023May 22, 2025

Back to BASIC : Part 1

Explore! When you learn something new, it is essential to let your curiosity take the lead. As children, we are born with the spirit of an explorer. Even before we can speak or crawl, our minds are fixed upon exploring every aspect of the world that surrounds us. Looking every which way, vocalizing, grasping, observing,…

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October 18, 2022May 22, 2025

Iceland with Kids : Part 1

In July 2019, we decided to contribute our own personal 21st century addition to the Icelandic Sagas with an epic family trip to a Iceland. As our family grew, Jess and I had kept our commitment to continue traveling and exploring the world along with our kids. We had also set our sights on Iceland…

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September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

Action Potential

The science fiction Culture novels by Iain M. Banks, a series of 10 books published from 1987 to 2012, has become widely known of late, thanks in part to SpaceX naming their autonomous drone ships after some of the sentient Culture ships in memoriam of Banks who passed away in 2013. I first encountered the…

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September 18, 2022May 22, 2025

Isle Royale National Park

In July 2022, my friend Brian Headlee and I drove up to Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior for a few days of outdoor adventures, including an excursion to Isle Royal National Park and fishing for the elusive muskellunge. After a long drive from Des Moines, we reached the North Shore and had a great…

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August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

Commodore in the Cloud : Part 1

For many years, the cloud was a realm I mostly explored at work during the day. When it came time to climb back down the beanstalk and hang up my plumber overalls and pipe wrench, I was perfectly happy to exist on traditional Linux virtual private servers or physical machines at home like my MacBook…

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May 23, 2022May 25, 2022

Activation Function

In 1998 and 1999, I had the pleasure of working at the Adaptive Computing Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. I was an undergraduate at the time with a major in Computer Science, and the opportunity to do real research in Artificial Intelligence alongside a dynamic and driven…

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May 17, 2022September 18, 2022

Hiking Glacier Gorge

In July 2021, my friend Andy and I woke early and began the hike up Glacier Gorge Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. Our ultimate goal for this 12.4 mile hike was to reach the 13,500 ft. summit of Pagoda Mountain that connects to Longs Peak via the Keyboard of the Winds. Hiking so early…

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February 24, 2022February 3, 2023

Simple BBS in a Commodore Emulator

If you roamed the Earth in the time when every household had a personal computer but only a few had ever heard of something called the Internet, then you probably remember using a modem to dial into a Bulletin Board System or BBS. At that time, unless you were among the lucky few with access…

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