In December 2025, Marv published a new book on Amazon. Thorough readers of the Vine Maple Farm blog will find it familiar because its content was all published as posts there. Marv bundled together a selection of posts and called them Vine Maple Farm: A Whatcom County Idyl, then sorted and grouped the posts for coherence, and edited them to knock off a few rough corners and solecisms. You can purchase it here.
Marv likes to help folks with computing problems. If you would like help on any kind of computing problem, go to my Questions page.
Vine Maple Farm is Marv Waschke’s less computing oriented web site. He writes about Whatcom County history, homestead farm life, and other subjects. These include public libraries, fiction, the covid-19 pandemic, and our changing culture.
Lately, he’s been posted some semi-technical pieces on working from home there. See New Normal: Network Performance.
On my other blog, Vine Maple Studio, I write about non-computing matters.
My Vine Maple Studio statistics show that one of my most popular pieces there is a ramble I wrote about software and the farm a year ago. Its popularity surprised me because I didn’t think anyone would be interested. Read A Retired Software Architect.
Raymond Chandler was a great mystery writer, but his stories are sometimes hard to follow. I examine his technique in Raymond Chandler on Plots.
I am an enthusiastic reader of Anthony Trollope, the Victorian author. Reading Trollope On Line.