I want to provide some longer thoughts on the hasty decision by DHH to replace their TypeScript library Turbo with JavaScript. I think it’s a bad decision. But why is it a bad decision? Have I just become a crank who is settled in his own ways? …

When I have some free time on the weekends, I’ll try to pull an article I’ve saved in Instapaper and read it. While Feedly is great for publications I read regularly, I do want to read a lot of articles that shared on social media. But when do I have…

When you are going to build an IoT project, you have a lot of platforms you can choose from: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Particle, and new platforms like Zephyr are popping up all the time. I think Zephyr is interesting because of its wide board support and its backing by the…

After reading an essay entitled The Microwave Economy by David Perell, I thought about leaving a comment expressing my opinion. But then the comment was going to get too long and I decided to write a more formal rebuttal of the author’s points. In this essay, the author bemoan’s the…

A couple months ago, a new website launched that I found quite interesting. I finally found a bit of time to go through it. The site, now called UrbanStats, provides a variety of density-related data and more including education, income, election-related data, and more. I thought it’d be fun…

In my previous post, I felt quite blocked by some limitations I encountered with simulating memristors in Gem5. I wasn’t able to find a real benefit to using memristors, at least in the way that I wanted and the way that Gem5 works. Yet I still have research to do…

The US Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization agree: the COVID-19 pandemic is over. To be clear, this does not mean the disease is eradicated. It never was going to mean that. It also does not mean people won’t get it in local clusters. …

In my previous post, I shared how I built a custom imply function that was slightly faster when running as a dedicated command than trying to do the same thing with standard logic. …

Reddit is falling apart. Recent changes to their APIs are making it nearly impossible to support third-party alternatives to the Reddit app and as a result those alternatives are shutting down. This led to a large backlash: a temporary blackout and a lot of digital protesting. Why are these changes…