Rick Altherr @kc8apf@mastodon.cloud
he/him. Engineer, tinkerer, ποΈ,π§,π,π», 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.
Starting my work day as usual: waking up my laptop and letting Windows spend 30 minutes applying updates.
TIL SunPlus has two homegrown ISAs: ΞΌ'nSP and SβΊCore 7.
Only 12 hours to image 2 laptops with their factory image and apply all the firmware and OS updates. Now they are all ready for surgery tomorrow.
Test Laptop: WARNING!! Machine is in an uncommitted state!
Me: Is this laptop hitting on me?
Every time I decide to make something as a gift, it takes _so_ much longer than I expected and I miss the deadline.
While mastodon.cloud was down, I had quite the saga with skunks: https://twitter.com/kc8apf/status/1191196304740737024?s=19
Cloudflare recruiter: Come work for us!
Me: No way
Cloudflare: what? Why not?
Me: really? You don't know? *adds another reason to my list*
Pumpkin pie season! My favorite season!
Today, two separate people were trying to find me with the description "that person who talked about BMCs." I'm ok with this as a personal brand.
My gate for this morning's flight lacks a jetway....and a plane. Instead, there is a bus...... to take us to the plane. π€·ββοΈ
Poe, our Corgi, pulls my heart strings every time I leave the house. He follows me to the door, smiling and ready to play. When I close the front door, he runs to window to watch me. π
SpiSpy bringup step 1: remove bios flash from motherboard and reattach via connectors. βοΈ
Yes, the motherboard still boots.
I can finally check off "Visit startup based out of a garage" on my silicon valley bingo card.
Rick Altherr
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We're trying to defend #FOSS from patent trolls. Please help us: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/
It's happening! I've been asking for modern editor features for HDL since 2017. Really excited to see @wavedrom making it happen. https://github.com/drom/atom-ide-eda
I'm being reminded of all the reasons I hated living in multi-unit apartments.
Somehow I borked a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM badly enough that it was corrupting downloads π€―
Initial BOM cost for stereo volume control I'm building: $75! That's only the major ICs!
Unsurprisingly, operating Apache Kafka is rather Kafkaesque
he/him. Engineer, tinkerer, ποΈ,π§,π,π», FOSS FPGA tools.
Joined Apr 2017
