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 RustA Staff-shaped Hole
Almost nobody has an effective Staff+ programOn Hiring Staff Engineers
Pitching & Hiring at the higher levels of engineeringExtreme 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.
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