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Two standing desks, programmable lights, bamboo floor and a Raspberry Pi — my remodeled home office
In January I posted pictures of my gutted home office. Remodeling always take a while, in particular when doing unusual things, but I’m close to being done. So it’s time for some pictures. What unusual things, you say? Let me get to that in a minute and walk you through my new office: 1. Bamboo […]
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Giving up on nftables
Supposedly, nftables is the successor to iptables. So when implementing a firewall for UBOS, the logical thing to do is to use the new thing instead of the clumsier old thing. But I give up. I cannot figure out how this thing works. All the how-to pages that I found essentially have the same examples, […]
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Overlord vs Indie #IoT — my notes for the internet of things panel at C2SV today
These are the notes I took for myself in preparation of the panel. Of course, the panel discussion went in a different direction, but why not post my notes anyway? I’m told there will be a video of the actual event, and I’ll post that when I get the link. So, here are the notes: […]
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Have lots of git repositories? Teensy git-360 is really helpful
UBOS development involves lots of git repositories: our own UBOS code, code to build UBOS, code from various developers with various apps, code to package those apps for UBOS … and most of it is stored in separate git repositories. The common question: did I check in everything? what did I miss? Anybody who works […]
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A Diet for Java (diet4j)
When Java was introduced to an incredible reception in 1995 — I had just come to California — Sun was the king of the Unix systems manufacturers. While there were still others like HP, IBM and Silicon Graphics, Sun had the momentum: Sun pioneered “open systems”, it open-sourced even its chip designs, and it had […]