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In a previous article, I explained that encryption is not allowed on the radio amateur service, but that we could still use public-key cryptography. In particular, we could use SSH for authentication, but without encryption. This would allow secure remote control of base stations, satellites and more. In this article, I will discuss how we […]

The C programming language is a gift that keeps giving. Today, we are going to see how a seemingly banal and common operation can hide unfathomable depths of unmentionable horrors. Woes with Integer Coercion What is the problem of the code below? It’s written in C. A Rust enthusiast That’s… a good point. But let’s […]

Amateur Radio Amateur radio is about tinkering with the electromagnetic field. This may involve designing analog circuits to shape or unveil the modulation of signals, or sometimes using digital ones to recover information from the noise, or operating multi-hundred-watts transceivers to chat directly with the other side of the world, or lower-power ones to go […]

Speed. I am Speed. The one thing that C cares about is speed. Seriously, you might not get the right results, but at least, you will get them fast. Let’s look at two common ways to represent a vector in C. The first one is to just use the built-in array type. This approach is […]

So Many Bugs So, you’ve been programming for one month, or for ten years, and you have gotten familiar with Murphy’s and Sturgeon’s laws. And you are wondering if there is some way to catch all the bugs, not just spray-and-pray with regression/unit/integration/system/acceptance testing. Or you are a curious onlooker, wondering why all these programmers […]