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Device? No. Board design? Maybe, it depends on how good a relationship with suppliers you have and how much stock you pre-purchased to manufacture it. Which is exactly why this par…

Article author here — just to clarify a couple of points. Firstly, it appears a few people have not actually went through and read what I wrote and suggested, well pretty much the …

That _was_ my first choice, to be honest, but the device (and the chip itself) was unobtanium at the point I was looking at it.

I mean, that's the whole point why I decided to go down the rabbit hole of spending time to learn and understand it instead of just grabbing the cheapest AliExpress trigger board a…

I mean, I have done that in the past, when I was writing about more technical topics, too: https://flameeyes.blog/2010/09/04/linux-containers-and-netwo... https://flameeyes.blog/20…

Leaving the casual xenophobia aside, I never said anything about "real" yak shaving. Indeed, as others noted already, I clarified that everything I'm writing is from the point of v…

Yup, though nobody I worked with saw it that way anymore. There's a significant drift in its meaning, and there's also dissonance between different areas in the same industry. That…

See, a friend of mine suggested having some illustrations to go with the concepts to glue them in the mind of the reader. And since I have no artistic skills, I had to get them com…

So here you made me think for a moment if I was being inconsistent, but no, I don't think so. You see, my employment _is_ with Meta now, and was with Google before — it never was w…

(Article author here.) Yup, there's also the more common approach of implementing extensions in C (or equivalent), possibly with an intermediate language. For example, Cython is a …

Before somebody else asks me on my blog, I have no idea. I have not posted this, I'm not entirely sure if it's relevant at all nowadays, I don't even use Firefox any more...