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Speaking on UBOS and the Indie IoT at Mozilla San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2016
Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, have an Internet-of-Things unit. Did you know that? It was a surprise to me when I heard about it, but a good surprise. We need the kind of openness that Mozilla stands for in the IoT, and I hope they can play a large role in the emerging IoT market.…
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Java’s “Uncompilable Source” RuntimeException Mystery Solved
Two days and a countless …(censored)… later, I think I figured it out. Here’s the mystery: I successfully compile my Java code into a bunch of Java archives (JARs). I deploy that code to my server. The app fails to start. The stack trace shows: some of my code runs my code invokes some of…
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My Mt. Whitney day hike: up was easy; down … I’d rather not remember
My hiking permit was for Tuesday, August 2, 2016. So here’s how the adventure went: Preparation Day minus 2: Sunday, July 31, 7:30pm Arriving at Whitney Portal (elevation ~8300ft). Checking into the Ravine walk-in campground and setting up tent. Going to sleep soon. (Can you see my tent in the picture? There are no others.…
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Training for a Mount Whitney day hike
For this 21 miles roundtrip, 6000 ft-plus up and down hike, here’s how I trained: Running every second day for some months, usually in the 3-5 mile range, sometimes 7-8 miles. I worked that up to one (my first) half-marathon one weekend. On weekends, hiked up the local hills (~1000ft altitude change) at the highest…
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Things nobody tells you about hiking Mt Whitney
I managed to summit Mount Whitney in a day this week. It was my first time on the mountain and the first time camping at Whitney Portal. Here is a collection of things I learned which I wish I would have known beforehand. Posted in the hope that it may be useful to others: There…