kyle.cascade.family

Old revived blog post I originally made this blog post in 2025 in “the before times”, before AI took over the world.

Previously I wrote about getting a new version of the Linux kernel booting on my favorite phone of all time, the Palm PVG100 (pepito).

I’ve been bringing up my Palm PVG100 to run on Android 16 using a custom ROM.

I’ve blogged about my favorite phone of all time, the Palm PVG100, before: And while I successfully upgraded it to Android 11, that still is pretty old (and with the stock kernel).

I’ve been debugging computers for my whole life.

I’ve written before about getting custom motorized blinds for all my windows at my new house.

I have a first gen Silhouette Portrait hobby cutter that I’ve had for over a decade.

Bloom’s Taxonomy is one of my favorite models for how we learn.

I remember when I was young watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG), and thinking about how cool it would be to talk to Data (the android).

I recently have had the pleasure to use a TUXEDO Stellaris 16 - Gen 7 laptop.

It is a generational thing (probably?)

I really love E Ink (or epaper, eInk, etc) dashboards.

For the longest time I’ve thought that we were doing container images “wrong”1.

High Performance Computing (HPC) has always been interesting to me, ever since the first time I read a Beowulf cluster joke on slashdot.

This blog post falls into the “I hope it is useful to someone” category.

Stealing a poker metaphor, there is an important lesson that senior engineers exercise when working in tech: Knowing when to Hold ’em, Fold ’em, or when to walk (or run!)

I had previously blogged about an Eink dashboard for tracking baby stuff (see more in the eink series at the end of the page).

I had previously blogged about an Eink dashboard for tracking baby stuff.

I don’t normally write blog posts that regurgitate information from normal documentation, but this particular subject irks me.

In part 1 I talked about why I don’t like sidecars generally.

Five years ago I wrote a blog post against Kubernetes sidecars.

I recently bought some motorized blinds from SmartWings.

There are a couple of infographics out there for “Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know”: 1, 2, 3.

In this blog post, I’m going to look at some init systems, but not very thoroughly: nitro tini dumb-init pid1 supervisord runit s6 daemontools systemd What Makes it a “Container” Init System?

I want to share a capability that we have at $WORK that is not industry standard, but I think is underrated.

You may be familiar with the essay “Choose Boring Technology”.

When it comes to the state of the art of AI-Assisted Coding (perhaps not exactly “Software Engineering”) in August 2025, you may be confused.

I think that “modern” shrink-wrapped software (Helm Charts) is like fast food.

Imagine you are working on developing a new product for your customers.

Normally when searching for a new home, one picks a city & budget, and then a real estate agent would find some homes for you to look at.

Inspired by comments of a “forever desktop” here, analogous to a “forever home”, I wanted to share some thoughts on my “forever desktop”.

I’ve previously written an ode to the Palm PVG-100 as my favorite phone of all time.

I love watching my favorite channels on Youtube.

Intro Ever since Microsoft acquired Github in 2018, I’ve been thinking of migrating away from Github.

Mainframes In the beginning was the mainframe and time-sharing systems: IT’s job was to protect the sacred mainframe.

I love my PVG100 Android Phone.

Want to make this blog post more fun to read?

I love my little OneNetbook 4: I love its capabilities and size.

I want to share a tool I’ve been using to help track baby activities, an ESPHome-powered 10" eInk dashboard: (Snapshot taken after opening up the windows right after a long nap.

When I first bought this wifi-connected Roomba, I knew that someday it might have to join the Internet of Shit.

This is the first post from the new blog!