Articles

Something that has interested me since it's conception in around about 2006 was the concept of what is now known as the smart home - it's always been something I've dreamt about. 

In this post I am discussing how serial communication overtook parallel communication as the main method of communication in computer systems.

This is my top ten games of the last decade.

Some languages really have easy to read and write syntaxes, whereas others sacrifice this for structure. What about the combination of both?

Apple has a problem. I think it's time they addressed this.

Being able to repair your own technology is great for someone like me. But a world without the ability to do this is becoming the norm.

AMD's Threadripper is a beast. But how can it have 64 cores in a world where 4 cores is the norm?!

AMD have long been in the shadow of Intel. But is it finally time for them to Ryzen shine? I take a look at how AMD has changed over the years and how they are finally getting there with the Ryzen CPUs.

ZPE has been gradually getting faster and faster due to more optimisations at compile time, however, this month I began to really delve into the deep end and found some new ways that ZPE can be optimised. In this post I will discuss exactly what I'm going to do in order to do this.

A while after I sold my perfectly running MacBook Pro 2011 13" to my brother in 2014 it began to run slow. In early 2016 he was so infuriated by the sluggish performance that he was going to be selling it as a spares. In this article I discuss the issue and the fix.