Xander Cesari
The fall and winter of 2025 turned up the volume on the debates around Rust adoption. There have been some high profile successes, some equally high profile missteps, and now technologists who were not opining on the language a year ago are joining the conversation. Within those discussions is the
In Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" he posited that there was great innovation yet to be unlocked in miniaturization. In a time when humanity was reaching unprecedented scale in their engineering projects Feynman offered a $1,000
The case for open source software in automotive is not for the developers. It's not even for the companies. The greatest benefits go to the very industry as a whole and automotive needs the leg up. Let's talk about it. Open source for individuals: maximize agency
The driving force of my career has been increasing the broad competency of engineering hardware-based systems. My degree in mechanical engineering - though seemingly less relevant to my daily activities with each passing year - reveals my hardware-centric worldview. I identify as an engineer with an unerringly fierce pride because
I've been reflecting on an appropriate inaugural post for this new blog, The scope of my initial attempt at a commencement piece quickly spiraled into a multi-part series that will see the light of day someday but not today. Then I wrote ~5000 words to organize my