old human yells at clouds

There are a lot of positive things you can say about the Zephyr RTOS project, but simplicity is not its focus.

Recently, I decided to standardize on a small number of MCU for various projects.

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Checking in on my last blog post, I find that it was over 3 years ago.

Depending on the week, and mood, I tend to cook a decent amount of Thai and Vietnamese food.

Like just about everyone else in the world, I have a home network.

I have always been someone passionate about typography, ever since I did design work on my highschool yearbook on a Mac IIfx running the original Aldus Pagemaker and an original Laserwriter.

I wanted to document this so that hopefully some poor soul will be able to discover it and know what’s going on.

In San Francisco, the Thanh Long restaurant is justifiably famous for their garlic noodles with crab.

UPDATE 2023-08-28.

In the long-distant past, I, like most people on the Internet, leveraged Google Analytics to keep track of visitors to the website.

Recently, it came to my attention that Cloudflare is back to its old tricks, and is fronting for Kiwifarms, a well known hate site that has driving multiple people to suicide through hounding, doxing, and other evil behaviors.

Update (2022-8-6): I’ve added some information on the rather underwhelming performance of iSCSI on a 10 year old low-end Synology NAS.

As I [mentioned earlier]({{<relref “tools-to-make-life-easier”>}}), I’m a huge fan of Tailscale.

For the last few months, I’ve been working on learning the F# functional programming language.

Years ago, in a previous job, I built some software to analyze ADS-B data to do some predictive analysis around flight arrivals.

Well, I had initially intended to host things on Azure, but to simplify things, I have decided to move things over to Cloudflare Pages.

There’s a few tools that I really like having handy for me on my Mac.

While it’s de rigueur in most languages to use an object-relational mapper (ORM) to translate between your internal representation (typically object-oriented) and the relational model, I find that you end up with a bit of the “worst of both worlds” in the…

Customer service applications are those that provide administrative access to a system in order to deal with support, abuse, or safety concerns within a system.

Last November, after nearly a decade driving the same Ford Focus ST (only to about 45,000mi), I finally broke down and bought something new.

In programming, we are constantly told to ensure we write comments, and this is very good advice.

For the longest time, I stopped making homemade pasta.

One of the things that can be most challenging when starting to learn a new technology is beginning to wrap your head around the terminology that is used.

This is based on sketchy information, limited releases, and just general experience in the business for the last 20+ years.

Many years ago, my younger sister was a bit obsessed with the film The Never Ending Story.

As someone who has written Python for almost 25 years, spent years writing various Lisps and Smalltalk, and spent a few years in the Clojure community, it might be interesting to talk about what appeals to me with F#.

Well, it has been a long time since I last wrote anything in a blog.