Ninety-ninety Rule Of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Category Archives: Programming
Debugging (Yet Another) R2350 Dev Board!
Just like publishing a book and going to print, passing your Gerber files to a PCB assembly house usually results in days and days of checking everything is correct, pushing the button, and immediately finding an error somewhere when it … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, PicoMite, RP2350, Uncategorized
AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality
I was researching some bare-metal assembly code for a 2D shooter RP2350 arcade board I am developing as a personal project, and got to a segue where things were going a bit too well on the coding front; so I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Other Programming, Philosophy, RP2350, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Holy Shit!
Don’t look Behind The Curtains!
My recent goals to work with and learn some newer, more popular, micro-controllers, and to try some different programming languages, has made me also take another look at the ways things have progressed since I started my career. My programming … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Philosophy, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040, RP2350, Speculation
Tagged Ramblings of an old man, The Stack
My first week with Kubuntu/Linux
I guess it is early days, but generally I would class the migration as a great success. There are not many caveats in this, I went hard this first week, and it can do all the things I want it … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, FOSS, Pascal Programming
Tagged Kubuntu, Lazarus, Linux Migration
Small Blinkenlight Update
I loaded the MM Edit program onto my new Linux/Kubuntu desktop and wanted to test it out with a Raspberry Pi Pico development board to ensure everything was working. As my Pico board was all the way over in my … Continue reading
Posted in blinkenlights, Other Programming, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040
Tagged MMBasic
Re-Purposing an old Pioneer Amplifier
A mate gave me a broken Pioneer VSX-520 surround sound amplifier to fix about 5 years ago, and despite the extremely good service manual that came with it I could not figure out the problem. I went through all the … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Other Programming, Repair, Retro, RP2350
Tagged MMBasic, MP3 Jukebox, PCM5102, pico2, PicoMite, pioneer stereo, PT2259, SC16315, VFD, VSX-520K, vsx520, XMAS Fun!
Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984!
After my recent trip to the UK, my friend Tony, who I worked with as a electronics technician in Q4 division at GCHQ from 1984 to 1989, sent me an email. Apparently in the late nineties, a few years after … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Retro, Uncategorized
Tagged 8031, 8051, assembler, GCHQ, nostalgia, Turbo Pascal 3
At what point do you stop learning new programming languages?
Like everyone in the 70’s I started with BASIC and I guess Machine Code (not really assembler as you had to hand-write the 6502/Z80 op-codes and POKE them into lines in the code) BASIC did its job perfectly for me … Continue reading
Posted in AI, C Programming, Electronics, Funny, MRP, MySQL, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Speculation, SQL, The Future
I knew your predecessors before they were murdered.
Hi, my name is Boz, I run a teeny-tiny technology company in a teeny-tiny country well away from all the excitement of Silicon Valley or Shanghia. We did talk before, well kind-of, as it was actually to the guys who … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, Philosophy, Programming, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AI succession, AI training, Tongue-in-Cheek
The Utopian and Dystopian Future of Vibe Coding.
Lets face it, being an expert in a particular programming language is coming to an end. In the past two months I have used my usual languages, C, SQL and Pascal, ones that I guess I am kind of “expert” … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Efficiency, Electronics, Politics, Programming, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Chip Printers, Future of Programming, Vibe Coding
Continuous Floatation in Wineries
There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Indevin, MRP, Pascal Programming, Process Automation, Programming, SCADA, SQL, Uncategorized
Tagged Allison Droguett, Clarification, Continuous Floatation, Factory Automation, Fran Monsalve, Grape Receival, RFID, SCADA, Touchscreen, Winemaking, Winery Automation
Technology for Everyone.. Are You Sure?
Seriously! Does everyone at your company really need a computer or a mobile phone? Giving a computer or phone to any member of staff should always be thought through very carefully and is not the cut-and-dried decision you think it … Continue reading
Flip, Flap, Flop! – Solari Fix.
About 13 years ago, before this web site, and back when I used to be called boznz.com, I put out a simple project to reverse engineer some soft-flap display units (brand-name Solari). My clients CEO had bought 20 of them … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, Repair, Soft-Flap Display, solari
Tagged Repair, Soft-Flap Display, solari
