July 2022

Did aliens really talk to us in binary code at Rendlesham Forest? (publ. Jul 2022, edit. Jun 2026)

It isn't often that coding theory can be used to evaluate a claim of a UFO encounter. Here is one instance where it can.

Categories: science and technology, mathematics

How Microsoft Windows killed the palmtop computer (Jul 2022)

1999 was the golden year of palmtop computing. Within a couple of years, palmtops were obsolete. Why?

Categories: retrocomputing

Using Podman to deploy an image directly to OpenShift 4 (Jul 2022)

This article describes how to deploy a container image direct from a local repository to an OpenShift 4 cluster, and instantiate a pod based on that image.

Categories: software development, OpenShift

Understanding Java's functional interfaces (Jul 2022)

Functional interfaces are allow Java programmers to write methods whose arguments are lambda functions. How does this work, and why would it be useful?

Categories: software development, Java