Have you ever searched for a common item on Amazon and found items that have strange names, descriptions, etc but have great reviews?
I sure have.
And in the rare instances where I've bought those things, or friends of mine have, they've basically been a lottery ticket in terms of …continue
While at a restaurant recently, I noticed they had multiple shelves of pickup orders. It's a popular local restaurant, so they had orders from all the major food delivery companies, Doordash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and they all had little receipts on them.
Each receipt had one line printed really large …continue
There are a lot of problems in this world, and while it's easy to point out problems, it's a lot harder to proffer solutions, especially ones that might actually be reasonable to implement.
I would like to offer the following series as my attempt to do so. If you have …continue
Another few weeks have gone by, but now there is good news!
The new desktop is fully working, the old one is now relegated to being part of a cluster. My home network is now capable of gigabit transfers, including > 100Mbps download speeds. My laptop is going through the final …continue
A few weeks ago, I mentioned I would be started this blog up again, and I mean it. However, in the past few weeks I hit a few snags with my personal hardware, and realized how out-of-date it all is.
I initially wrote out a thousand words on my current …continue
There's been a pretty long gap here, a little over 5 years, which matches almost exactly with my time at my previous company. I was the second employee, fifth in the room, and spent those 5 years building simulation software and tooling for the autonomous vehicle industry. As a result …continue
Jumping to the bootloader from application code is highly desirable for many reasons, such as wanting to be able to reprogram devices in the field without any extra hardware (such as a button) to increase complexity, BOM cost, etc.
The code in this post will be tested on the STM32F070xB …continue
As anybody who's looked at Cara's capnp->Python conversion code, they may have noticed that I've taken a liking to C++ metaprogramming via templates. I started my initial foray into C++ back in '06 when modifying an existing codebase for a robotics competition. It didn't use templates, and for the …continue
After months of internal use without problems, we're ready to release cara for others to use. We would be very happy if others picked up cara and made it work for them. If you've been looking at the Cap'n Proto project but were hesitant to shoehorn it into your Python …continue