Ken Shirriff's blog

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

Getting the (literal) bugs out of a driveway gate controller

My driveway has a gate that automatically opens when you drive up, and then closes. Recently it stopped working and this blog post describe...

Using Arc to decode Venter's secret DNA watermark

Recently Craig Venter (who decoded the human genome) created a synthetic bacterium . The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) took a bacterium...

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 -...

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