Claude AI helped me finish my short story that I started writing 40 years ago.
While rummaging through my stack of old books one weekend, I noticed a piece of paper inserted between the pages of the HP15-C…
Author: Veneraldo Apelo
Diary of an MPPT Solar Charge Controller
September 29, 2016 — St. Louis, MissouriThe first thing I felt was a spark , literally. A technician’s probe touched my leads, and suddenly, HEX110 surged through my…
Unwinding Summer Weekend.
My take on Bread’s 1970 classic, Baby I’m A Want You. (No Intended Copyright Infringement)
The Solar Rush in the Philippines
Due to the war in the Middle East, there has been a tremendous oil crisis everywhere, including the Philippines, where around 80% of…
Newton’s Divided Difference Interpolation Using HP-15c
HP-15c’s built-in matrix feature can greatly save time and decrease the number of lines when incorporated in a numerical analysis program. I used…
HP-15C, The Calculator That Was Ahead Of Its Time.
RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programmable calculators from HP, such as the Voyager series HP-11C and HP-15C, have been around since the early 80’s. It was…
Software development meets dad’s joke
My first attempt to write a joke. Please go easy on me. While installing and researching for the awesome Aerospike database, I concocted…
A Vintage Watercolor Painting from Paris
I bought this watercolour painting at the turn of the millenium (a vintage as of today) by a famous Val d’Oise fairs award-winning…
Installing Jenkins on FreeBSD
Jenkins installation is quite trivial on FreeBSD. All you have to do is issue a package install command and you’re done with a…
Revisiting Altivec
After painfully restoring my old Mac Power Book G4 from Snow Leopard to Debian Linux (this deserves another blog topic of its own),…
The Little Black Hen And Other Stories
The Little Black Hen And Other Stories My attempt to write a story within a story within a story within a story….. (nested…