Here’s where I put things that don’t otherwise fit in a blog post as well as links to content I find interesting. It’s always changing and never complete.
See also, the meta page for more this website and how I build it.
I used twitter for a while, automatically replicating my tweets on the main page. The tweets are archived here.
I no longer do this since twitter has paywalled their API.
Elon’s 5 steps to process improvement:
- Make requirements less dumb: Question and verify requirements to ensure they are not error-prone and to remove unnecessary work.
- Delete parts or processes: Remove unnecessary parts or process steps.
- Simplify and optimize: Simplify or optimize the design and process.
- Accelerate cycle time: Streamline the manufacturing process to speed up cycle time.
- Automate: Automate the manufacturing process to ensure efficiency, reliability, and cost reduction.
Importantly automation is the last step, not the first. This is the opposite of what many people think!
- Ignore existing constraints, start from the ideal and work backwards.
- Bartosz Ciechanowski’s blog – Bartosz explains complicated systems and concepts such as GPS, colour spaces, cameras and lenses in the amazingly understandable way, complete with from-scratch WebGL (and other) interactive diagrams.
- The Asahi Linux blog – such a high concentration of extreme technical expertise, applied to something I thought impossible without manufacturer support.
- Phoronix – Michael Larabel covers Linux & Linux hardware extremely thoroughly and with great integrity
- Jeff Atwood’s blog – opinionated, often right! He’s the guy behind stack overflow and discourse, so there’s a lot to learn from him.
- Andrew Holme’s website – I used to work with Andrew. He’s made some impressive things in his spare time – like a GPS receiver from scratch!
- Chris Bishop’s blog – A friend with a some serious network skills and his own ASN
- Chips and cheese – Incredibly deep dives into hardware architectures
- Jeff Geerling’s blog – Lots of experimentation with Linux and strange things with server/hobby hardware
- Rodrigo Copetti’s blog – super interesting and astonishingly well communicated posts about game console architectures among other things
- Ken Shirriff’s blog – Deep dives into electronics and processor architectures. The charger tear-downs are particularly illuminating
- I Code 4 Coffee – Lots of hardware and game hacking
- Rob Hague’s blog – I work with Rob, always an interesting read. Especially if you like keyboards ;-)
- Ben Cartwright-Cox’s blog – All sorts of software hacking
- Phoboslab – Lots of video game and otherwise 3D pipeline hacking
- GMUNK – the insanely creative guy behind so many future user interfaces, cool looking adverts and the Windows 10 wallpaper
- Eddie Pace’s blog – I’ve had the pleasure of working with Eddie for several years. He’s a talented developer with some serious knowledge and skills in multiple, sometimes unrelated fields.
- aintnobodygottimeforthat – Frill has made various highly precise clocks and runs one of the UK’s top NTP servers
Jeff’s also the guy behind commonmark, a standardised Markdown variant
Some books really stand out to me. I reckon I need to read some from https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-developers/ so I can grow this list!
He’s focussed on consumer rights more recently, particularly right to repair.
No affiliation, just typefaces I like.
- Pragmata Pro (Iosevka SS08 is a good free alternative)
- Fira Code – My current terminal font
- Berkeley Mono – Great for instrument panels!
- Raleway – A sans serif typeface with a clean, modern look. A little like Helvetica, but with a bit more character.
- Futura – A classic geometric sans serif typeface. Great for signage and headings.
I met a person that deleted everything – all possessions and hobbies. He’s now rather productive after picking only a few hobbies and deliberately choosing not to make everything a project. I’ve deleted DJing and amateur radio…