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Music edition/production with Reaper: https://www.reaper.fm/ They've been so kind to issue a temporary free license to help with the isolation. Their license model is very liberal anyway, but the gesture was well appreciated. I own a Yamaha E363 keyboard and a Stratocaster, now I've bought a Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD soundcard and an Audio-Technica AT2020 mic to complete the budget home studio. Amazon.es is working…
I'm also following MITs online math courses to get back up to speed.
- Started learning about building versioning into firmware. Found some great posts from the Memfault Interrupt blog on GNU build IDs, and another one from the Embedded Artistry blog on adding more generic versioning.
- Also learning about analog drivers and generic analog design techniques from designing the output stage of the next board revision.
- Learning the most from building prototypes and selling them to people. It's given me a crash course in writing good, useful docs, and getting people up to speed quickly.
If you want to get involved, there's definitely more boards, and plenty of stuff to be done. Feel free to email me at at gmail dot com to see about arranging a board for you!
I am trying to learn more about distributed systems. Any one have a recommendation for a MOOC or a book that could help? I am specifically looking to understand frameworks such as Dask or Ray and how to build a similar system from scratch. Thanks!
But a general book about distributed systems that I highly recommend and one you'll see often referred to on HN is Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Seriously great book and one I often go back to for fundamentals about distributed systems.
I've put that a temporary hold for the last couple of weeks to brush up on algorithms; I'm working through some select chapters of Concrete Mathematics, Programming in the 1990s, How to Solve It, and Algorithms. I find I'm not satisfactory at solving leetcode-style problems in what industry considers a sufficient amount of time so I'm working on improving my skills there.
And I'm making progress on my own side projects as well. I'm testing the waters with trying to record my work on video to see if streaming might be a thing I could do.
I watched all but one of Lamport's videos on formal specification with TLA+, though I yet have to tackle some project with it. Right now I got my hands on Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" as per some HNer recommendation (thank you!). Yeah, I lose interest quickly, eh. There's so much cool things to learn that in the end I learn nothing well. Bummer. edit: grammar, spelling
I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…
Never heard of LeetCode. Is it one of these fad languages? What companies are looking to hire people who are exprets with 10 years experience with this language?
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 2