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Week 2 Making Embedded Systems
Week 2 of 10 of the Making Embedded Systems course.
Week 1 Making Embedded Systems
Week 1 of 10 of the Making Embedded Systems course.
Import Polar trainingdata to Strava
When you sync data between your Polar account and Strava you don’t get your full training history imported. I used some online tools and wrote a python script to to a full export
Write One to Clear
Memory mapped registers do not always behave like regular memory. Here I explain why you should avoid using bitfields when clearing W1C status bits.
Repair Microsoft Sculpt mouse buttons
The Microsoft Sculpt mouse that comes with the Sculpt keyboard has been a trusty companion for me. But the left button wears out. Here’s how to fix it.
What I've been reading in January
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this August.
What I've been reading in December
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this August.
Kernighan software tools in rust
I’m trying to learn Rust. So far I’ve read “The Book” and done the rustlings exercises. For hands-on practice I’ve implemented a few commandline utilities. I’ve selected a few that Brian W Kernighan uses in his language help files and present my versions here. I only have about one week of rust experience so beware: there are many mistakes.
What I've been reading in March
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this August.
What I've been reading in August
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this August.
Paper: A fork() in the road
A review of Baumann et.als paper on limitations of the fork system call present in UNIX operating systems.
What I've been reading in July
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this July.
Standard C loop idioms
What’s your standard idioms for doing loops in C? A summary of a Twitter thread betweeen me, Per Vognsen and Shachaf.
What I've been reading in June
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this June.
Views on Error Handling
In this post, I summarize some accomplished engineer’s views on error handling. There is a distinction between errors that are caused by programmer neglecting bugs and those that represent true error conditions. The granularity of error checking is also up for debate: Per function? Per module? Jump to dialog handler in the main message loop? Kill the process and restart?
Paper: Memory Barriers, A hardware View for Software Hackers
In this paper, I review Paul McKenney’s memory barrier paper. He describes in 28 pages why memory barriers exist and how they are implemented on different platforms.
What I've been reading in May
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that I’m excited about this May.
Embedded Online Conference
I’ve attended the Embedded Online Conference. Here are my notes from five talks I watched from the Embedded Systems Security track.
Paper: RIDL Rogue In-Flight Data Load
In this post, I’ll explain the mechanisms behind a recent micro-architectural exploit. It’s in the same genre as the speculative execution exploits but has less strict requirements.
Report from the Adhoc Event 23 April
I attended a remote virtual event organized by Paul Khuong, Samy Al Bahra and Jessica Natoli. Four short 15 minutes talks followed by Q&A. Great topics, professional, pedagogic speakers; and the format - short talks with recommended reading - before attending was great. I only wished that I had more time to prepare. A big thank you to Paul, Samy, Jessica, and all four presenters! I hope there will be more events!
Why should children program - a review of Seymor Paperts Mindstorms
This is an essay about what it means to teach a kid to program, using Seymor Paperts groundbreaking book Mindstorms as a reference.
What are the next steps for rr?
Robert O’Callahan is leaving Mozilla to work on rr-related technology. I’ve been following the rr project at a distance as a user and very casual contributor. I got curious, what will happen next? Here are my free-wheeling thoughts on possible directions.
Ubuntu 15.10 on Dell XPS 15
In this post, I describes what steps are neccessary to get Ubuntu running on a recent laptop as of 2015.
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