Hand crafted bits since Y2K
Hi I'm Francis Gulotta 👋
I write about IoT, Robots, Education &
the Internet I Wish We Had
I met Connor Hicks through work. We both work on webassembly powered projects in our day job and he builds a really cool platform called Suborbital. Which you can think of as a lambda for webassembly modules. Actually I like...
My friend with Gregor Martynus asked on twitter if anyone needed help with github actions. “There are no unworthy ideas” he said. So I raised my hand. I need help with SerialPort.
I’m building a small project with architect a lightweight framework to manage AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and few other services to make serveless web apps.
This year I took some time around the holidays to do some learning. Like last year I dove into rust but I didn’t go into it cold this time. I was gifted a “live book” called Rust In Motion which...
My Product Manager Skylar asked me today to recap how our product team righted themselves after a year of hardship and they’ve been so good for so long I had forgotten where we came from. It feels really good when...
For the second year in a row, for my birthday, I took some time off work to learn some new things. This year it was Rust. (Last year it was the DHT Kademlia) I enjoyed spending two days with Rust....
As of today you can read this website without a web server by visiting dat://roborooter.com. If that link doesn’t work for you, you’ll need a DAT capable browser like Beaker Browser. And in early 2020 you probably don’t have a...
I wrote this for a 5 minute lightening talk at a local tech leadership meetup.
I decided to build a toy for my son. Buttons lights, the works. I’m far from done.
I spent a few weeks making an old Serial Mouse work. I’ve been tweeting a log of what I’ve done so far and I already wrote a piece on the serial mouse protocols.