Miles's Nerdy Thoughts

This post is part of a series: how to talk to the stm32 in 6 different ways as well as some interesting things to do with each method. The code mentioned in this post, a working example, can be found in my github. In my last post, I talked about how to start from zero…

This is the first in a series of posts about 6 ways to communicate with the stm32f103c8t6. In each of the posts, I will talk about a way to communicate with the part as well as something interesting that can be done with that mode of communication. I have a video for this post: The…

I’ve recently begun trying to produce some youtube videos on programming topics that I find interesting. In that interest, I’ve come to use the kdenlive linux video editor . Kdenlive is pretty nice and will serve my needs just fine. One thing I’ve aspired to do is some multi-camera videos. My wife practices a couple…

Generic programming, as used by the std and boost packages, depends heavily on template tricks to extract data from specific data structures in a generic way. When I first tried using some of the boost libraries, I felt pretty clueless in getting them to do what I wanted. Hence this post. Say you have a…

When I was in college, like most CS type majors, I took the algorithms class. Sorting, binary trees, O(n) notation… all of that. One of the things I didn’t understand is why such a big deal was made about some algorithms like the graph algorithms. Why would I want a minimum spanning tree of a…

Trying to reach even non-computer people This is a long post. Most of it is instructions for modifying Android apps for your own purposes. In the first portion, in which I talk about motivations, I will attempt to make it interesting even for non-computer people: I was surprised how easily and well java sources can…