Welcome

Welcome to my blog on technology and music ideas. I use this site to document circuit designs and design methodologies, some coding efforts, and concepts in music and guitar.

Blog Posts

  • Monty Hall: A Short Explanation

    The Monty Hall problem, based on the game show Let’s Make A Deal, still stumps a lot of people.
    I arrived at the following short explanation over lunch one day with coworkers.

  • GitHub and SSH Keys

    GitHub provides mutliple methods for remote access, including HTTPS with a personal access token (PAT) or SSH. Initially I used a PAT in the URL, but for now I prefer using SSH keys, which requires stricter file permissions on the client machine.

  • Dia shapes for circuit diagrams

    Dia is an open source diagramming tool similar to MS Visio. It has been stable with only minor developments for a few years, but it is a useful tool for simple 2-D circuit diagrams for discussion and documentation.

  • First Post: Setting up GitHub pages and a Jekyll theme

    This blog uses GitHub Pages and a Jekyll theme. I’ve outlined what I’ve done to get the blog up and running here for future reference.