Ken Shirriff's blog

Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever

Decoding the secret DNA code in Venter's synthetic bacterium

Craig Venter recently created a synthetic bacterium with a secret message encoded in the DNA. This is described in more detail at singulari...

Your relationship: mathematically doomed or not?

I came across an interesting paper that uses a mathematical model of relationships to show that relationships are likely to fall apart unles...

USB Panic Button with Linux and Python

This article describes how to use a USB Panic Button with Python. The panic button is a pushbutton that can be read over USB. Unfortunate...

Spanish vocabulary from "Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal"

Recently, I've been attempting to improve my Spanish by reading Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal , the Spanish version of Harry Potte...

Viking Dishwasher Fault Codes

Here are Viking Dishwasher error codes for anyone who needs them. I was visting family over Easter and the Viking dishwasher quit working -...

Understanding Sony IR remote codes, LIRC files, and the Arduino library

This article describes how to understand Sony IR codes and how to get them from the LIRC files. The article is intended to describe codes f...

Some similar and confusing Spanish words

While trying to learn Spanish, I find a few Spanish words are similar to other words and keep confusing me. This article summarizes them, m...

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