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Here’s another quick C thing… One of the jobs I had used a pretty complete coding style guide for C. One of the things they insisted on was only one “return” in any function that returns values. For example: int function(int x) { if (x == 1) { return 100; …

It seems only yesterday I first mentioned the new Raspberry Pi Pico. At this time of its introduction, I wondered two things: Why did they use the “Raspberry Pi” name for a new piece of hardware that does not run Linux. It was closer to an Arduino than a Pi. …

I am mostly a simple C programmer, but I do touch a bit of C# at my day job. If you don’t think about what is going on behind the scenes, languages like Java and C# are quite fun to work with. For instance, if I was pulling bytes out …

Recently, I ran in to a situation where a floating point value (represent current) was being converted to a byte value before being sent off in a status message. Thus, any calculations on the other side were being done with whole values (1, 2, 42, etc.). I was asked if …