Sporadic musings on software, algorithms, platforms https://keystrokecountdown.com RSS for Node Mon, 25 May 2026 18:23:58 GMT Copyright © 2016, Brad Howes en bradhowes@mac.com Short discussion on how I run snapshot tests in Github CI https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/knobci/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/knobci/index.html Brad Howes Sun, 05 Mar 2023 09:06:00 GMT Using FFMpeg toolkit to transcode MWA files to MP3 format https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/wma/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/wma/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 19 May 2020 22:18:02 GMT How I customized Remarkable to get what I wanted https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/remarkable/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/remarkable/index.html Brad Howes Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:10:02 GMT Setup on macOS to use Chrome only when at work https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/browsers/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/browsers/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 13 May 2019 16:32:24 GMT Brief discussion about my first JSFiddle project using SVG.js https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/genart/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/genart/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:18:02 GMT Learning about logistic regression models while looking at cat pictures https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/logistic/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/logistic/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:47:55 GMT A post to help me remember some Kerberos commands https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/kerberos/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/kerberos/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:18:02 GMT Brief discussion of a utility I use on macOS to quickly translate text between French and English https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/translate/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/translate/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:18:02 GMT Short discussion on how I remapped the keys on my MacBook Pro w/ an international layout. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/keymaps/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/keymaps/index.html Brad Howes Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:06:00 GMT Account of what I did to fix a broken Azure Let's Encrypt web job https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/letencrypt/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/letencrypt/index.html Brad Howes Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:18:02 GMT Short discussion on how I updated my blog to show formatted console output https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/console/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/console/index.html Brad Howes Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:06:00 GMT A brief look at using Docker containers to run a C# app https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/docker/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/docker/index.html Brad Howes Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:18:02 GMT Short discussion on how I configured AutoHotKey to minimize my typing errors in Windows. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/autohotkey/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/autohotkey/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:06:00 GMT Short discussion on using Python to manipulate the contents of an iTunes Library XML file. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/itunes/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/itunes/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:06:00 GMT Brief description of updates I've made to my blog rendering tool-chain to remove in-browser KaTeX processing https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/metalsmith2/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/metalsmith2/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:43:02 GMT Arrival Intervals of a Poisson Process. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/poisson/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/poisson/index.html Brad Howes Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:57:55 GMT Short discussion about an issue I had fetching a bundle in Xcode and CocoaPods https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/cocoapods/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/cocoapods/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:18:02 GMT Short discussion about an issue I had using an embedded framework that itself contained embedded frameworks https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/signing/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/signing/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:18:02 GMT Documents code necessary to achieve fast variable-height cells that use Auto Layout https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/vhtc/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/vhtc/index.html Brad Howes Sat, 07 Jan 2017 11:18:02 GMT Documents how I implemented a joy stick control view for a Swift iOS project https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/joystick/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/joystick/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:18:02 GMT Documents how I implemented dependency injection in a Swift iOS project https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/dependencyInjection/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/dependencyInjection/index.html Brad Howes Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:18:02 GMT Shows how to add and control Core Plot graphs https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/corePlot/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/corePlot/index.html Brad Howes Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:18:02 GMT Shows how to easily animate sliding UIViews for a nice visual effect https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/slidingViews/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/slidingViews/index.html Brad Howes Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:18:02 GMT My first foray into extending Swift's Collection protocol in order to provide fast searching of ordered elements. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/swiftCollection/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/swiftCollection/index.html Brad Howes Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:18:02 GMT Where I describe how I use Metalsmith to run a static site blog on Azure https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/metalsmith/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/metalsmith/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:56:02 GMT Bloom Filter can quickly and accurately determine if a given key is not part of a set of keys. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/bloom/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/bloom/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 03 May 2016 11:18:02 GMT Test page showing how to use IPython content to make a blog post. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/Testing%20IPython/testing-ipython.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/Testing%20IPython/testing-ipython.html Brad Howes Mon, 02 May 2016 11:47:55 GMT A tutorial on how to properly use cryptography libraries available in Python. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/decrypt/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/decrypt/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 02 May 2016 10:18:02 GMT A brief look at how a simple choice in algorithm implementation can greatly affect performance. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/power/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/power/index.html Brad Howes Sun, 01 May 2016 11:18:02 GMT Trying to understand PDM audio. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/PDMPlayground/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/PDMPlayground/index.html Brad Howes Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:57:55 GMT A rectilinear display of radar returns https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/bscope/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/bscope/index.html Brad Howes Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:18:02 GMT A multi-channel signal display I wrote in Qt https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/ascope/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/ascope/index.html Brad Howes Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:18:02 GMT A radar display app I wrote in Qt and OpenGL https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/radardisplay/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/radardisplay/index.html Brad Howes Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:18:02 GMT An example of my early (and crude) visualization work at MIT/LL with surveillance systems data. https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/dfwtraffic/index.html https://keystrokecountdown.com/articles/dfwtraffic/index.html Brad Howes Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:18:02 GMT