Kevin Boone

February 2025

Fun with capital letters (Feb 2025)

I frequently have to read documents that look as if the writer was given a bag of capital letters, and told to use them all up. Like many aspects of English, capitalization has few rules that are set in stone; but there are some conventions that serious writers ought to keep in mind.

Categories: education

Social media: it's not me, it's you (Feb 2025)

It's not my fault that my avoidance of social media makes me hard to contact. It's your fault for letting yourself become hooked on it.

Categories: degoogling, security

No good deed goes unpunished: can we now be sued over software we give away? (Feb 2025)

For too long, mega-corporations have been able to avoid liability for defective software. But will upcoming changes to the law adversely affect those who distribute open-source software free-of-charge?

Categories: general computing, security

ARM assembly-language programming for the Raspberry Pi (Feb 2025)

A series of simple, progressive examples that demonstrate the essential features of programming in ARM assembly language.

Categories: Raspberry Pi, software development, embedded computing, assembly


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