Author Archives: Bob

Creating an Emacs package: ‘password-menu’

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Bob

TL;DR This post documents the development journey and some implementation details of a relatively simple Emacs package and is arguably overkill for such a small piece of functionality. On the other hand, some of these details may be useful for … Continue reading →

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Introducing elfeed-curate

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Bob

The Need I read a lot of RSS feeds on a select set of topics (see About | Bob’s Content of Interest). I sometimes tweet/toot about individual posts but have the desire to expand that capability. I’d like to be … Continue reading →

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Dealing with ClojureScript Cross-build NPM Dependencies

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Bob

I recently posted this Clojurians Slack re-frame question: I have a deps.edn/figwheel-main re-frame project that I’m trying to add re-frame-10x to. The deps.edn (day8.re-frame/re-frame-10x {:mvn/version “1.5.0”}) and dev.cjls.edn (:preloads [day8.re-frame-10x.preload]) seem correct and the project builds without errors. When the … Continue reading →

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On Selecting Clojure

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Bob

The Clojure and Scheme Compared comments about Peter Bex’s Clojure from a Schemer’s perspective article caught my attention. I know that discussion is about language features, but it got me thinking about the different criteria used for selecting a programming … Continue reading →

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Full Cycle Teams in a FDA regulated setting

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Bob

The 200X hot topic was Agile development in a FDA regulated setting. Over a decade later this should (hopefully) be a settled issue. I can’t imagine anyone still doing water-fall these days. The new challenge for medical device companies is … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox 6.1.x Windows 10 2004 Upgrade Problem Resolution

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Bob

This is just a quick note that will hopefully save someone time. When I upgraded Windows 10 (64-bit) from 1909 to 2004 I found that Virtualbox 6.1.x no longer worked properly. All of my guest instances (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) failed … Continue reading →

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314 Digits of Pi (Python to Clojure)

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Bob

Pi Day (3/14) is in a couple of days so I want to wish everyone a Happy Pi Day 2020! It’s great to see that 55% of American’s plan to celebrate and many will be eating pie or pi-themed food … Continue reading →

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Bioimpedance Analysis to Detect Sleep Apnea

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Bob

The company I worked for over 10 years ago, CardioDynamics*, manufactured an impedance cardiography (ICG) diagnostic device. The technology behind ICG and the Onera Bioimpedance Patch to Detect Sleep Apnea is called thoracic electrical bioimpedance (TEB). It’s no surprise that … Continue reading →

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EEG Devices at CES 2020

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Bob

The Consumers Electronics Show (CES) 2020 was held earlier this month in Las Vegas. Of the ~4,400 exhibiting companies, the “Digital Health” category had 573 exhibitors. Of these, I found 9 companies utilizing EEG technology. Besides the usual sleep aid … Continue reading →

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Exploring Clojure (and FP vs OOP)

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Bob

I’ve always viewed functional programming (FP) from afar, mostly because object-oriented programming (OOP) is the dominant development methodology I’ve been using (Java, Ruby, C#, etc.) for many years.  A majority of the articles I’ve read on FP have statements like … Continue reading →

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