The Player-Coach BS

Player-coach "management" is nonsense.

Rest and Focus

Your brain is capable of 4 hours of focus. Don't waste it.

Tarot cards would be better than your interview

Your interview process is basically just guessing.

Lead by influence needs to go away

Bad management disguised as something good.

Company Values and other lies

Your company values are pure fluff.

Optimal vs Maximal

Did you really optimize it? Or did you just dial it up to 100%?

The Dangers of Passion

Looking for "passion" is a double-edged sword.

Should you have a hackweek?

Should the company really go on pause to play around?

Simple Rust Patterns

Me playing with Strategy and Factory in Rust

A Staff-shaped Hole

Almost nobody has an effective Staff+ program

On Hiring Staff Engineers

Pitching & Hiring at the higher levels of engineering

Extreme Debugging

Debugging without source or symbols, alternatively, "Where there's a will there's a way"

You Too Can Build A Kernel/Hypervisor Part 1 — Preliminaries

I built the skeleton of an arm64 kernel on qemu to (at least attempt) demystify it.

My Hugo SciFi Reader (1953–1963)

My reviews + recommendations of the first decade of Hugo Aware Winning books!

Certificates: A Primer

A handy explanation for the fields in a digital certificate.

I Have A Binary, But Where Is Main?

Exploring the innards of an ELF binary to find the physical location of main.

Manually linking Rust binaries to support out-of-tree LLVM passes

Sometimes you want to support some crazy LLVM features in Rust and need manual control over the linking process :-).

Translation Workbench

I built a tool to help make translating Japanese easier.

Shippable Datacenter Part 2: Security Discussion and a Survey of Secure Boot Options

An exploration of security options in a embedded-like environment.

Network Managed Raspberry Pis for a Shippable Datacenter

In a former life I spent a lot of time thinking about how to turn an empty room with chillers, some dark fiber, and a pallet of blank servers into a functioning production datacenter.