Blogs about Development

This story, too, begins with noise. I was browsing the radio waves with a software radio, looking for mysteries to accompany my ginger tea. I had started to notice a wide-band spiky signal on a …

Leaders (and managers) are successful to the extent that their teams and peers notch wins. Former Intel CEO Andy Grove calls this the “output” of a manager, and wrote the book on it1. Easier said …

Note: Old links to my site may not work anymore, due to change in the URL layout!! I tried to make a redirect for them however. Blog update I have finally updated my blog look …

My publications list was missing some entries and many of the PDFs. I started uploading everything to Zenodo, but although they archive things well, it’s not ideal as a publications list, for example you can’t …

This year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health. My hope is that those who want to learn from me find it …

Previously I built the SAP-1 and SAP-2 in Verilog based on a design laid out in the book Digital Computer Electronics by Malvino and Brown. Now it’s time to build the final evolution of the …

Docker is a great tool for building and running containerized applications, but it is not the best solution for running services on Linux. In this post, I will explain why I prefer using systemd units …

Bonfire's circles and boundaries system is a powerful tool with which you can create custom groups of contacts and grant them specific permissions to interact with you and your content. They can help you take …

Funny story: I got a feature request for mdless to allow multiple sections to be specified in the output, but I misread the notification as a request for Doing. So I spent a couple hours …

The AxiDraw software, including the Inkscape plug-in, the AxiDraw CLI, and the Python module, offers a pretty neat way to control the plotting process with special escape codes in layer names. vpype doesn’t have an …

Installing ruby through asdf on Apple Silicon Macs1 will attempt to build a custom openssl for each install because it can’t find openssl from homebrew in /usr/local, as that’s now installed in /opt/homebrew. This means …

New Yorkers don't know where our nearest defibrillators are, so when people have heart attacks, we lose people we could save. A new NY City Council bill aims to open that data. We need your …

I’ve spent a lot of time editing Wikipedia. I do it for many reasons, but one of the sillier ones floating around the margins of my consciousness is that I like to think that, by …

For the book Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Boundsby Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi (See here for a link to a first draft.) we had to make some choices about which notation to use. One of the …

Recently I started playing around with Traefik on Kubernetes and wanted to request wildcard LetsEncrypt certificates.

Today I was working on designing a steps focused live activity mode for Pedometer++. In the initial version of workout tracking I focused on distanced based UI, which fit well with the overall structure of …

Recently, there has been a lot of misinformation and propaganda flying around the American news media about the furry fandom. Unfortunately, this seems to be increasing with time. Art: LvJ Consequently, there are a lot …

The SAP CodeJam programme continues apace. Yesterday I ran a CodeJam in Brescia, Italy, on the topic of service integration with CAP, the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model. Here's a quick overview, with plenty of …