Why make software If you want to leave a lasting legacy—some durable remnant of your brief existence that will ripple forth into the future and leave an imprint on hearts and minds of future generations—you might be wise to dedicate your life to pursuits other than the creation of software. Writing, painting, architecture,
Realizing Meshtastics Promise with the T-Deck Realizing Meshtastic’s Promise with the T-Deck Meshtastic—a simple off-grid mesh network used to transfer short messages—is a neat bit of tech, but until recently, most development has focused on little nodes with or without tiny OLED displays, and a
Implementing Raft Part 4 - KeyValue Database
3rd Party PoE HATs for Pi 5 add NVMe fit inside case 3rd Party PoE HATs for Pi 5 add NVMe, fit inside case Today I published a video detailing my testing of three new Raspberry Pi HATs—these HATs all add on PoE+ power and an NVMe SSD slot, though the
Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement
Git Aliases for the Lazy and Grug Brained I’ll admit that I am lazy, have a terrible memory and generally fit the archetype of the grug brained developer. As such I endeavour to make my life as easy as possible, ideally with as little effort as possible. Usually this manifests as me doing some work up front to make
Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming After I saw Pineboards 4K Pi 5 external GPU gaming demo at Maker Faire Hanover, I decided it was time to set up my GPU test rig and
Linearizability in distributed systems
My October 7 post For weeks I agonized over what, if anything, this post should say. How does one commemorate a tragedy that isn’t over for millions of innocents on either side? How do I add to what friend-of-the-blog Boaz Barak and countless others have already written? Do I review the grisly details of
Quantum advantage for NP approximation For REAL this time The other night I spoke at a quantum computing event and was asked—for the hundredth time? the thousandth?—whether I agreed that the quantum algorithm called QAOA was poised revolutionize industries by finding better solutions to NP-hard optimization problems. I replied that while serious, worthwhile research on that algorithm continues, alas,