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Zephyr and West configuration with mcuboot

Posted on February 28, 2026 by rm5248

When using Zephyr, it is common to use mcuboot as the bootloader. However, you sometimes need to configure mcuboot separately from Zephyr. In order to do this, use: The thing to remember here is that when we are doing a … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on immigration and pro-life issues

Posted on January 25, 2026 by rm5248

I realize that my site here is mostly a geared towards a technical audience(however limited that is), but there comes a time that I feel the need to speak up on current events in the US. This is one of … Continue reading →

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Why Arduino is a great platform for development

Posted on April 8, 2025 by rm5248

So I’ve been messing around with Arduinos a lot lately, and I figured I should take some time to explain why I feel that Arduino is one of the best ways to program microcontrollers(with some caveats, of course). Pro #1: … Continue reading →

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Screen Recording with GNOME 3

Posted on September 7, 2024 by rm5248

So I just had a bit of an adventure here today with GNOME3 and trying to get screen recording to work. I run Debian 12 on all of my systems, and the screen recording works fine on my desktop but … Continue reading →

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Musings on AI

Posted on May 14, 2023 by rm5248

As we’ve seen in the news lately, ChatGPT has been making a lot of headlines with people saying things such as “AI” about it. I haven’t used ChatGPT or any of the other “AI” systems that have now been released(e.g. … Continue reading →

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What do you tell a soldier who thinks they are a military genius but really isn’t?

Posted on November 10, 2022 by rm5248

“Quit Patton yourself on the back”

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Replacing headlights in an Athearn SD40

Posted on April 9, 2022 by rm5248

A few years ago, I got an Athearn SD40 in C&O livery: Unfortunately, the incandescent lights that the Athearn locomotives come with by default are terrible and don’t last very long, so this locomotive has been running without lights for … Continue reading →

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Dumb Joke

Posted on October 5, 2021 by rm5248

Have you heard of the new short-form video app for software developers? It’s called Tcl/Tk.

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Stupid C++ Threads and Lambdas

Posted on August 21, 2021 by rm5248

For a unit test that I’m writing for some code at the moment, I need to create a thread that doesn’t do anything. Well, the easiest way to do this is to do a lambda function. And since we don’t … Continue reading →

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Fixing a Gamecube Disk read error

Posted on June 27, 2021 by rm5248

I recently wanted to play my Gamecube again, so I turned it on for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, it would no longer read any of the disks that I had. Upon some internet searching, it seemed like … Continue reading →

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  1. rm5248 on Replacing headlights in an Athearn SD40August 22, 2025

    There's no real lens(the lens is on the LED), but looking at the pictures I think it's about 1/16 of…

  2. Stephen Arsenault on Replacing headlights in an Athearn SD40August 19, 2025

    What is the diameter of the "ATHG67143" / "ATHG67145" replacement lens?

  3. noah on Stupid C++ Threads and LambdasFebruary 1, 2023

    I think the same way, LOL

  4. rm5248 on QTest Project SetupOctober 20, 2022

    Perhaps someday I will do that. You can follow the same idea using CMake, making a static library with add_library()…

  5. Kev on QTest Project SetupOctober 19, 2022

    Is there a possibility that you could show how the project structure works with CMake? I started learning Qt with…

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