Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

Given my name [1], lucid dreams are something that I used to interested in and have experimented a lot with. In the Elric of Melniboné books, most of the empire spend most of their lives in dreams, as a hedonistic escape from reality. Needless to say, the empire decays.

[1] https://stormbringer.fandom.com/wiki/Imrryr#Nickname

We at Toughbyte (toughbyte.com) are working on an open source applicant tracking system (ATS), which we'll release within a week.

We've been doing tech recruitment for a while and discovered that few companies are satisfied with their current ATS. Changing systems every year is common despite being costly. The reason for this is that the needs of a company change as it grows and there are no systems that cater well to companies of different sizes.

We're aiming to build an ATS that can grow with your company through the use of a plugin architecture. We plan to charge for hosting as well as custom development.

Any feedback would be really appreciated! You can also email me at oleg@toughbyte.com

Damn that's cool! Nice work

As I suffer from phone overuse, I'm excited to see what you'll come up with!

In my spare time, I am trying to port OpenBMC[0] to the BMC of the Gigabyte MC12-LE0[1], a cheap, workstation/server-class mainboard for AMD's AM4 platform.

Unfortunately, Gigabyte denied my requests to provide me with any details (board schematics/GPIO pinouts) or source code of the (partly GPL-licensed) BMC firmware, etc.), so it's been a tedious uphill battle. However, it is also a great way to learn about (some) electronics and embedded Linux development and associated challenges.

During the past few months, I have overcome the stock firmware AST2500 bootloader and made the board play ball with standard FDIs, have reverse-engineered a workable DeviceTree specification for the hardware, and am now (well, actually, not for the next three weeks or so, due to work :)) in the process of finishing up OpenBMC userspace configuration. Once this is done, and everything works well enough to use OpenBMC as a viable alternative for the stock BMC firmware provided by AMI/Gigabyte, I will try to upstream my work, and OpenBMC will have a very cheaply available AST2500 DevKit/EVB-alternative (of sorts) in its arsenal. (And I should be able to use my mainboard where the crucial OOB management function isn't serviced by Linux 3.14 any more...)

I am looking forward to documenting the lessons learned on my blog some time in the future, too :)

[0]: https://www.openbmc.org/ [1]: https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MC12-...