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Chip Overclock® is the pen name of John Sloan, a product developer based in Denver Colorado USA who specializes in software and firmware development for very large and very small systems on the internet of interesting things: distributed, real-time, high performance, embedded, concurrent, parallel, close to bare metal.
Small tech companies tend to be design or engineering led. Organizations grow and evolve, and as they become large they become marketing or finance led.
I too have tried to use a USB power bank as a kind of DIY UPS to power a Raspberry Pi SBC. What I learned - which may be unrelated to your experience - is that all of the several power banks I tried can be either…
I wrote a blog article on this very topic several years ago: https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2012/12/passion-practice-pro...
Yes, lots of them. I hate reading on the screen, enough that I own a color laser printer more or less just to print articles that I want to read that are online. But for the most part, I find articles in print magazines…
Being able to get feedback can be both a pro and a con, depending on the nature of the feedback. Sometimes you can use information asymmetry to your advantage; thinking in public may work against that. For sure thinking…
I also have a MacBook Pro and a GPD Micro PC. The latter is ideal for taking into the field (in the case of my GPS work, literally a field) to connect to the various pieces of hardware I deal with. It's really a…
Historically, this is what people have used public libraries and university libraries for. They're typically not internet-free spaces, but a little discipline on the user's part solves that.
Some time ago I wrote a blog article about the lab notebooks I use. https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2008/07/daily-organization.h...
I'm an embedded/real-time/systems software developer. The realms I work in tend to be either the very small or the very large. When I wanted to learn Rust and Go, I coded the same application in both of them, one that I…
We were lucky that the recent tragic Marshall fires in the Boulder Colorado area didn't directly affect us, even though our home was near the boundary of a pre-evacuation area. But I have two colleagues who lost…
"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" by Robert Austin [Dorset House, 1996]. Austin, who at the time he wrote this was an executive with Ford Motors Europe, was working on his Ph.D. in Organizational…
Related: my Hazer (com-diag-hazer) LGPLv2 repo, which makes extensive use of Diminuto, is my go-to tool for evaluating GPS/GNSS/IMU devices or building geolocation tools. I do use stuff like the GPS Daemon (gpsd) in…
At last count I have 36 repos on GitHub - some private - but by far the one that has been the most useful is my Diminuto (com-diag-diminuto) LGPLv2 repo that is a library of C/GNU/Linux-based functions and tools that…
Everyone has their own preferred mode of learning. Mine is hands on, learning by doing. I can't learn new material just by reading a book (although I have friends and colleagues that appear to be able to do so). I have…
1. I can only learn by doing. If I can't turn it into a project, then I'll never internalize the details, and cannot really claim to have learned anything. 2. For it to be a project, there has to be a deliverable. Could…
I do embedded, real-time and distributed product development for clients in the commercial, enterprise, aviation, defense, and big science domains. I probably own two dozen Pis of various vintages (and just ordered one…
Unless you're a computer scientist studying algorithms, probably not. But when I defended my Master's thesis in CS way back in 1983 - yes, I'm that old - my fiancee[1] gave me the three-volume set of Knuth as a…
"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" by Robert D. Austin, Dorset House, 1996. Changed my entire world view. The basic idea - which Austin arrives at using an offshoot of game theory - is that all…
MEASURING AND MANAGING PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS by Robert D. Austin Austin, who is now on the faculty of Harvard Business School, wrote this seminal book on measurement dysfunction and how incentives in the…
I'm a little surprised at the number of people that are saying "paper" or "printer". I agree. The technology to read complex technical topics online just isn't there yet, remarkably. I do plenty of reading online as I'm…
It's very rare for me to read a technical book cover to cover. I recently read IPv6 FUNDAMENTALS by Graziani (Cisco), but that was more an act of desperation. The best CS-related book I've ever read was probably…
1. Started working full time at 19. 2. Still alive at 60. 3. Worked hard in every job. 4. Maximized retirement contributions. 5. Only owned two houses. 6. Paid off current home as quickly as possible. 7. No debt other…