Rick Altherr @kc8apf@mastodon.cloud
he/him. Engineer, tinkerer, 🏎️,🔧,🔌,💻, FOSS FPGA tools.
Joined Apr 2017
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Reminder: I offer free mentoring and mock interviews. Embed sys, C++, perf analysis, at-scale monitoring, and more. Grab a spot on my calendar at http://calendly.com/kc8apf.
Rain let up early this morning so today was a perfect day to grade a site for the playhouse and lay a foundation.
Building a playhouse with the kids. Might unintentionally be building a tiny house instead.
Rick Altherr
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Outreachy May to August internship applications are open! Outreachy is:
💵 Paid - $6,000 USD total internship stipend
🌍 Remote - both interns and mentors work remotely
🕰 3 months - internships run May 24 to August 24
🚨 Apply by February 22 at 4pm UTC https://outreachy.org/apply/
Outreachy supports diversity in open source software!
Past interns are:
♀️ 92% women
🏳️🌈 4% transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary people
🧕🏾 64% people of color
🧑🏿 12% people from a historically disadvantaged caste or tribe
Love designing dense PCBs filled with high-speed buses? Apply at Oxide! No, really, we need another EE. Boards are being designed by software engineers.
Which file formats and options does _this_ assembly want me to submit my design in? Gerber, Excellon in inches, Excel BOM, XY w/ bottom left origin and positive axes, readme.txt to explain what each file is. 😭🤯💩
Is sprinkling bypass caps near layer changes an effective way to avoid doing more SI analysis? Asking for a friend. (not really asking)
Do I run the 2xRG6+2xCat5 I already have throughout the house or do I buy a bunch of Cat6?
RISC-V emulator for 8051. Such a beautiful hack. https://GitHub.com/cyrozap/rv51
Refusing to communicate with your coparent is a terrible parenting strategy.
Firmly into negative spoons territory tonight.
I'm at that point in my career where people buying computers from their formative years are buying machines I worked on.
Played Tony Hawk Pro Skater all evening like a proper adult
Really need to figure out a better chute for Big Chippin'. Filled the truck bed but dumped 6" of chips on the ground, roof, hood, ...
Checked alignment on microscope today. It's so far off that the normal adjustments can't compensate. Guess it's as good a time as any to open it up and do a thorough cleaning.
How to assess a secure MCU:
1. Beg for a datasheet
2. Sign NDA
3. Buy an eval board
4. Load program to dump ROM
5. RE ROM
6. Find undocumented registers and devices
7. Disbelief
8. Pick another device, repeat
Security through hiding rows in Excel 😬
he/him. Engineer, tinkerer, 🏎️,🔧,🔌,💻, FOSS FPGA tools.
Joined Apr 2017
