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    • 2007
      • Fake Science Makes Me Angry
      • Genetic Material from T-Rex Decoded
      • Vacuum and the Nature of Mass
    • 2011
      • Unhitched
    • 2012
      • Chick-fil-A
      • Choosing a First Telescope
      • Interesting Fossil
      • Rigorous Logic and Amelia
      • Pale Blue Dot
      • Science and Youth
      • Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
      • Theism and the Thinking Mind
    • 2013
      • Duck and Cover
      • Duct Tape
      • Firefox OS
      • Idiocracy is Upon Us
      • It’s Just a Theory
      • Ken Feder and the Myth of the Ancient Astronauts
      • Martian Exopaleontology
      • …from the Moon and Mars
      • SunWatch Video Podcast
      • Tech Generation… not?
    • 2014
      • ‘Andean Gold’ lecture at SunWatch
      • Chelyabinsk Meteor
      • Lunar Eclipse
      • A New Meteor Shower Is Coming
      • Sleep Well, Philae
      • Why do I not believe?
    • 2015
      • Early Humans in the Americas
      • SETI@Home
      • What is a fossil?
    • 2017
      • Cleaning Fossils
      • The Dating Game
      • How Firefox Got Its Groove Back
      • March For Science
      • Printing the Past
      • Who Ya Gonna Call?
    • 2018
      • 2018 AIA/SunWatch Lecture Series: Science vs. Pseudoscience
      • Coordinate Systems: Finding Your Way Around the Sky
      • Natural Selection At Work
      • Like Water For Gravity
    • 2019
      • ‘Astronomy for Beginners’ Program
      • Homeopathy
      • Scientific and Critical Thinking Omnibus
      • Show Me What You’re Made Of
      • Visitors From Space
    • 2020
      • A Dim View of Betelgeuse
      • Cleveland Archaeological Society Lecture Series
      • Going Viral
      • The Trinity Mineral
      • Venusians, Perchance
    • 2021
      • Create Extension for Visual Studio Code
      • Early .NET 6 Observations
      • The Upcoming Lunar Eclipse: Real-World Application of the Practical Astronomy .NET Library (+ Python!)
      • Enumeration Scoping in C++
      • Fossil Hunting in Central Kentucky
      • Fossil Sites Map in Leaflet.js
      • Geology of Jezero
      • Python and XML
      • Running a Mainframe Emulator on a Raspberry Pi Zero (Lunch-n-Learn)
      • Rust in the Android Platform
      • Rust Foundation
      • Speak with Elegance (or not)
      • Supporting Material for ‘.NET and Linux’ tech talk
      • Traditional Programming on Hobbyist Microcontroller Boards
      • ‘Visual Studio Code: The Swiss Army Knife of Editors’ (tech talk)
    • 2022
      • James Webb Space Telescope
      • Program Like It’s 1982
      • Rust In the Linux Kernel
    • 2023
      • .NET IoT and Terminal GUI
      • Modern .NET Tooling in VS Code
      • Perl: Is It Really That Bad?
      • Sci-Fi Recommendations
    • 2024
      • 6502 Programming in C
      • DuckDuckGo AI Chat
      • Observing Plan for the November Astronomy Program at Garber Forest
      • Modern Perl
      • Practical Astronomy Algorithms in Various Languages
      • Total Dissolved Solids Measurements Using Arduino
      • Think Async
      • Detecting the Voyager Spacecraft in Green Bank Telescope Data
    • 2025
      • ESP8266 MicroPython Project with OLED
      • Using UV To Manage a ESP8266 MicroPython Project
      • Observing Plan for the April Astronomy Program at Garber Forest
      • Learning Fortran
      • Implement a REST Service on a Nano RP2040
      • Single-File Dependency Management in Python Script Using UV

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About Me

My name is Jim Carr. I’m a software engineer living near Dayton, Ohio.

I’ve been an IT professional since 1988, working in multiple industries, using a wide variety of languages and tools.

I also have an amateur’s interest in astronomy, and science in general. I embrace skepticism, and reject pseudoscience.

If you’d like to contact me, you can email me: jim.carr(at)devtoprd.com.

My Sites and Profiles

Site Description
Facebook My personal Facebook page. (I don’t use Facebook regularly)
LinkedIn My LinkedIn profile.
GitHub Lots of code!
DevToPrd My software consulting business.
Knowledge Base Technical articles!
Twitter/X I deleted my Twitter account after the takeover.
Mastodon Like Twitter, but no algorithms, and a lot less toxic. My favorite social media right now.
 

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