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I’ve had the privilege of getting really, really good at two things in my life: developing electronics, and playing bluegrass music. Both have reaped significant personal and monetary rewards for me. (Significantly less of the monetary variety has come from bluegrass, but that’s a topic for another day.) The skill at both of those things has come with a cost, though. It’s kind of…
One of my former Sonos colleagues once told me the single wisest thing I’ve ever heard about hardware product development: “We’re a product development organization. We don’t actually make speakers. We make instructions for how to make speakers. Our only real output is paper.” (I originally attributed this to Sara Lincoln, but Sara tells me that she got it, in turn,…
the single best long term investment you can make in product team productivity
it errored out again pls help
I’m closing in on a year - a whole dang year!! - of working on RTLjobs.com. It’s a job board for FPGA and RTL engineers. (If you’re an FPGA engineer, and looking for a new gig, I’d love it if you signed up for our mailing list.) I’ve learned a whole lot about building and shipping webapps that I didn’t know a year ago. Knowing what I know now, here’s what I wish I’d done differently at the outset…
I recognized last week that it’s been ten years since graduating from Montana State University. I have learned a vast amount in the field that I never learned in school. Here are ten things I’ve learned from a decade working as an electrical engineer. Your time is your most valuable resource. Seek ways to maximize the effect of your time. Knowing the right answer isn’t as…
it’s amazing what you can learn if you do something daily for months
and i think you do too - but i’ll tell you anyway
an engineer’s journey in selling without feeling spammy
easier than scraping a hide, I suppose
you’ve got mail
put the spurs to ’er, chuck
get your freq on
the only time a guitarist ever wants to kill the buzz
more signal processing sorcery
we don’t have the func anymore
talk about it, talk about it
talking to your users is a hell of a drug
songs to sing for your supper
everything in its right place
save yourself time, money, and headache on footprint validation
hard reminders that we all need each other
america needs to hear it
make your range dynamic again
Alexa: do better
pictured: your goal
responsive webpages? try responsive frequencies
professional prototypes, promptly processed
amplitude modulation - not just for radio anymore
clever girl
it’s a steady job but i wanna be a
haha version controlling snek program go brrr
cry, cry, darling
g’day, disgusting rat
distributing scripts to unix eunuchs
lots of component research
filters, and modulations
i guarantee you’ll need these again
back to the frequency mines
toolchain setup as therapy
do you want to get one to try?
get your own head right first
time for a short rest
metal media for the mental mill
metal media for the mental mill
i like gumby so i’m keeping him
rev01 is feature complete! boards shipping!
metal media for the mental mill
rev01 is feature complete! boards shipping!
i just did