I found out today that Will Murray died on August 24th. I never met Will. I never attended a comic book or a pulp convention. I didn’t know him personally. Yet I read everything he wrote that I could get my hands on. I suspect that was still a small percentage of his literary output.… Continue reading Will Murray 1953-2026
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AI and Emacs Bankruptcy
A few weeks ago I declared Emacs bankruptcy for the umpteenth time. Well, maybe the third or fourth time. My reasons were the usual: my configuration was full of outdated cruft and customization variables I no longer understood, my emacs.d/ folder was overloaded with cache files and debris from old packages, custom.el was full of… Continue reading AI and Emacs Bankruptcy
Coding vibe at EP Studios
Like everyone who codes, I’ve been experimenting with using AI agents and have been trying to figure out their proper role in the coding process. AI is unavoidable now, given its growing coding prowess and the fact that it is now integrated into the major IDEs, like Xcode, Android Studio, and Visual Studio. AI coding… Continue reading Coding vibe at EP Studios
Farewell, EP Coding
Today I decided to remove the EP Coding app from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The app was intended to help electrophysiologists understand the intricacies of the coding for EP procedures. However, as I have been retired from the field for over 10 years now, I’m not sure I still understand those same… Continue reading Farewell, EP Coding
EP Calipers 3 for Windows
For the last year I have been working on a new version of EP Calipers for Windows and it is finally ready to be released. This new release is the 3.0 version of EP Calipers for Windows. Technically it is an upgrade of the current 2.x version, but practically it is a complete rewrite from… Continue reading EP Calipers 3 for Windows
EP Mobile Update
The EP Mobile app is 11 years old, and was long overdue for an update. Recently I updated the Android version of the app, and I just finished updating the Apple version. I’ll use the Apple version to illustrate some of the recent changes in the app. The primary goal of the update was to… Continue reading EP Mobile Update
Cruising in the Era of COVID
As I write this I am on the last great transatlantic ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2 (QM2), and this is the final full day of a 7 day crossing from Southampton, UK, to New York City, USA. This is my first voyage since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I believe this… Continue reading Cruising in the Era of COVID
The Apple Watch Experience
Recently I started working on porting an old Android widget called MorbidMeter to the Apple Watch. I did this the cheapest way possible, namely via testing using the Apple Watch simulator that comes with Xcode, the Apple programming environment. When I submitted the app to the Apple Store for testing, the Apple Overlords immediately detected… Continue reading The Apple Watch Experience
Introducing EP Diagram
The ECG ladder diagram app EP Diagram is at long last finished, after nearly 2 years of development. The 2 year time span reflects more on me than on the app itself. There were programming techniques I had to learn in the course of developing the app that I didn’t know when I started its… Continue reading Introducing EP Diagram
The Case for Wagner
I fell in love with classical music at an early age. My parents in the early 1960s purchased a combined Magnovox record player and TV, a so-called console, and in addition to the records of movie sound tracks that they liked to play, such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man, they had a… Continue reading The Case for Wagner