Tech

• Fun Thought Experiment

  Feb 17, 2022 - 4 min read

  Tim Urban (Wait but Why) is one of my favorite content filters and in his recent apearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast, he mentioned this excellent thought exercise. I immediately paused the show to go find it on his blog.

• I Was on a Podcast

  Feb 12, 2022 - 2 min read

  Some time last year I started a company-wide email conversation about an article by Tim Bray:

  But Should I Code? Seriously, it’s reasonable to ask that question at this stage of my career. It’s a conversation that arose at both of my last two jobs, Amazon and Google. Should your most senior engineers, the ones with decades of experience and coding triumphs and tragedies under their belts, actually invest their time in grinding out semicolons and unit tests? Or do you get more leverage out of them with mentoring, designing systems and reviewing others’ designs, code reviews, and being the bridge between businesspeople and geeks?

• Intel Compute Card

  Jan 14, 2017 - 2 min read

  Intel announced their Compute Card at this year’s CES as a better-thought-out version of their existing Compute Stick. AnandTech:

  The Intel Compute Card has been designed to be a universal computing platform for different kinds of devices, including those that do not exist yet. The ultimate goal is to simplify the way companies develop equipment, use, maintain, repair, and upgrade it. Creators of actual devices have to design a standard Intel Compute Card slot into their product and then choose an Intel Compute Card that meets their requirements in terms of feature-set and price.