N0NB

Amateur radio, programming, computing, and life.

1980s Connectivity From Rural Kansas via Amateur Radio

Recently (well, almost four months ago) fellow Kansan and radio amateur John Goerzen posted The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America to his blog. While reading through it …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Fri, Dec 16, 2022

Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Hugo

Almost twelve years ago I moved away from writing static Web pages and toward setting up a local WordPress installation on my Web host and adding new content in it. It has worked …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Mon, Dec 12, 2022

Coping With Color on the Linux Console (and XTerm and friends)

In the previous post about ANSI escape sequences, terminfo, and the tput utility, what I did not mention is that even though a given color such as blue or cyan is requested, it is …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Tue, Feb 4, 2020

Tinkering in the terminal with tput

While it looks like a throwback to the 1980s or even the late 1970s, the terminal is a very capable way of performing tasks on a POSIX (BSD, GNU/Linux, etc.) computer. Some tasks …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Feb 2, 2020

N0NB at 21

Me? No, I’m somewhat older than 21. Dearie me! It was 21 years ago today that N0NB became an active callsign in the FCC database assigned to me. My callsign for the prior 15 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Tue, Dec 17, 2019