Are you going to give up on comments, sidebars, things like math & tables?

It still shocks me how bad the design is for newbie web templates. Everything is startup-bro full screen picture, big headline, no content. Ugh. As if the only thing anyone has say but “AI Product Coming soon!” (as we get funding…)

While you don’t ever really need to know Go to use Hugo, if you do any customization you end up learning Go templates (which honestly work, but suck). The upside is that I manage everything on GitHub via pull requests that generate and push the site to Google Firebase which gives me free cloud hosting of the content.

You of course loose these comments…

These days, I’d probably just do the $1 comp notebooks, though.

And, what’s a bonus is I could actually understand how it works.

I’ve played with software written in go and it’s amazing how easy it seems to do things, but the binaries seem to be huge. Need a command line parser/interpreter? Pull in a library, it just works. RegExp? Pull in a library… but it all adds bloat, which in most cases these days is not an issue (but it does explain why mobile apps need gigabytes to do what we used to do in 64kbytes)

Those stiches are going make you look like Harry Potter. 🙂
(Should be a good talking point.)

I suspect the world would be better if that percentage were even greater.

Thanks Mal! I’m trying to reclaim the time that I was using doom scrolling and writing pointless political diatribes on Quora, and put it back into my own projects and this glog. I’m hoping you’ll see more in the future.

I can’t help you with a job, not least because I’m on the other side of our little blue sphere. But I can tell you what I ask all my colleagues to say to me they day they inevitably tap me on the shoulder.

‘Don’t be all emotional. You have to treat it as an opportunity! So make the most of it.’

I wonder if I’ll be able to take my own advice. And how long will it be before I find out?

If you do get busy with the blog, I for one will enjoy reading it.

Cheers, Mal.

In a way, your return is an example of how The Radio Gods Have Spoken (TRGHS). Just last week I launched an effort to finally, fully understand how the Gilbert Cell in an NE602 really works. I Googled and was led to Brainwagon. About 9 years ago (I think) you had built in LTSpice the Gilbert Cell that VE3DNL had discussed so clearly on his web site. I went ahead and did what you did. Like you I was able to get it to work in LTSpice, but I discovered an error in OM DNL’s model — he had neglected to bias the two center transistors in the upper rank of differential amps. I biased them, and the circuit works better.

In a further example of TRGHS, my friend Bob KD4EDM spontaneously sent me an SST QRP rig (by Wayne Burdick N6KR) It is almost all NE602s. TRGHS.

Welcome back Mark. Blog on OM. We missed you.

73 Bill N2CQR