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.
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 🤯
Initial BOM cost for stereo volume control I'm building: $75! That's only the major ICs!
Unsurprisingly, operating Apache Kafka is rather Kafkaesque
Software is just creating data flow graphs and executing them.
USBAnywhere finally has CVEs assigned: CVE-2019-16649 and CVE-2019-16650
Do microservices orchestrators not realize they are just BPM engines without the "ask a human" tasks?
I've spent most of my day reading up on business process management software and BPMN 2.0. Must contain excitement.
Rick Altherr
boosted
Just re-upping this offer: because being comfortable with git is a barrier to entry to many FS/OSS projects, and because I care deeply about lowering those barriers, I will tutor anyone who asks for help with git, and/or connect them with any mentor(s) they might prefer.
I'll do this while I put energy and work into making the tool more approachable, and into making better tools and learning paths.
Boosts gratefully appreciated.
CMake is an excellent tool once you understand it.
Narrator: no one understands it.
Me: I'm fed up with terrible code bases
Partner: Show me where the software hurt you.
Me: *points to head*
Partner: *points to ❤️* maybe here too?
Me: *nods head yes*
Really wish this OLED display's datasheet just said it is a mode 3 SPI device in addition to a timing diagram. Of course, it also claims it has a 255 byte receive buffer but corrupts any transfers over 8 bytes. 😱
Today including removing an engine and transmission from a classic mustang with my partner. It was a good day.
This has been a week of big ups and equally big downs
My latest research is out today. USBAnywhere let's you plug in any USB device to Supermicro servers over IP. More over at Eclypsium's blog: https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-remote-attack/
My son noticed our unlocked ZTE Trek 2 HD tablet showed LTE on Google Fi but Firefox claimed it was offline. Best I can gather, AT&T/ZTE stopped shipping updates after Android 7.1. Guessing Fi won't let such an old patch level on the network. Trying to update to LineageOS has been 2 hours of frustration due to bootloader nonsense. Tablets aren't supposed to be disposable.
Finished slides for my talk at OSFC next week. Nearly a whole week before. Must be some kind of record.
Tis a sad day in my household.
he/him. Engineer, tinkerer, 🏎️,🔧,🔌,💻, FOSS FPGA tools.
Joined Apr 2017
