How To Stay Technical While In Management
How To Stay Technical While In Management
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How To Stay Technical While In Management
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.
Love and pain and war, all things I missed. Since the vats became standard in all low income housing I haven’t needed any of them. We’re all fed, we’re all healthy and we’re all kept separated so there’s no war,...
Even after running node serialport for a few years, I find all the states that are possible on a standard RS-232 serialport confusing to reason about. I figured it was a good idea to write it all down. I have...
I remembered there was such a thing as a serial mouse and I wondered how they worked. A bit of googling found me this link (which as of this posting has an SSL error). I’m going to reproduce it below...
I asked people on the internet for help choosing a linux laptop. People had opinions.
Serialport turns 9 this year. Back when it started NodeJS was a different environment than it is now. JavaScript was a different programming language than it is today. Since then I’ve pushed some major changes over the years to keep...
This week I’m at the Recurse Center as part of the “Mini 2 Batch”. I’ll be spending my time researching and implementing the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table. DHT’s are a building block of decentralized systems. They allow “efficient” storage and...
The Firmata protocol is used for a variety of uses, from home automation to robots. Any time a computer needs to control a low-power device you might find it being used. It’s built upon MIDI, which is a very old...