This is a personal blog that talks about technology, electronics, programming, etc.  I hope you find it useful.

If you’re wondering, stderr is a common abbreviation for the unix standard error file descriptor.  Programmers use stderr to send error messages to the console for debugging and to inform the user of any problems that occur during the execution of the program.  This is different than the standard output (stdout) file descriptor because it’s sometimes useful to separate the error messages from the actual data produced by the program.

As for me, I’m a computer support professional with a four year degree in electrical engineering.  I dabble in electronics until I’m tired of looking at a computer all day.  Usually at that point, I end up in the shop building something, so you may see some posts about that as well.