technology
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🧊 Web application architecture
The UI is the part you see. The boring parts underneath determine whether you end up with a sustainable product.
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🔧 What has changed around edge build systems?
Reflecting on Embedded Linux/Edge build systems, several things have changed: ARM and RISC-V hardware is fast. Modern ARM boards and cloud instances (AWS Graviton, Hetzner CAX) build at speeds that make cross-compilation unnecessary for mo…
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🚧 Three things that hinder product development
Not using new tech when applicable. Doing the same work over and over again instead of automating. Lack of collaboration.
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⚙️ Three aspects of product development
Finding and leveraging existing technology. Developing some of your own technology. Mixing it together. All three are necessary.
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💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there?
Product Data Management (PDM) is how you manage and publish your product data. The goal is to ensure all the stakeholders share a common understanding, confusion is minimized, and quality is maintained. The simplest PDM system is to put a b…
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🏁 Easy to start vs. easy to finish
There are many ways to classify how we do things. One way is “easy to start” or “easy to finish.” We may try to use off-the-shelf “maker” style embedded boards (Arduino or Raspberry PI) instead of a SOM (System-on-module) designed for indus…
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🚀 Advanced technology and small players
Integrated circuits (IC) vary widely in complexity from the small devices that are easily documented and understood to complex beasts that would require a stack of books and years to fully document. If you are a high-volume manufacturer of …
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💻 What is the purpose of technology?
To do more with less effort. To simplify our tasks. Sometimes this backfires and technology ends up giving us more to do and complicates our lives. It becomes a monster and we are consumed feeding it. Thus, the selection and implementation …
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🔍 Where do reliability/stability problems typically come from?
99% of the time, system bugs/problems come from the stuff you do. The code you wrote. The hardware you designed. The system you configured. The custom PRC system you created. Rarely are we affected by stability problems in the Linux kernel,…
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Technology
The fire of information technology – will you use it: to create or consume? to comfort or torment? for education or entertainment? as a tool or weapon? to temper or incite? for community or faction? for harmony or rebellion? to encourage o…