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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
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apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
recent activity (3,567 total)
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Starting the axis at anything other than 0 for a length comparison is hilarious.
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Hoot is another interesting one: https://spritely.institute/hoot/
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Bone dry here in Utah. Just as local government has been lowering their guard on the Great Salt Lake issue due to a couple strong snowpack years. Really hope we're proactive in response to the la…
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The RP2350 has a couple Hazard3 cores in it.
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The number of companies creating RISC V implementations is pretty hopeful. There's way more competition here than x64 or ARM, and that could yield some interesting results.
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My Pixel has gotten a couple major Android version bumps.
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Very excited about this. IP certs solve an annoying bootstrapping problem for selfhosted/indiehosted software, where the software provides a dashboard for you to configure your domain, but you ca…
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Used to happen more for me. Very rare now.
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One tradeoff with MVNOs is you're generally lower priority on the network.
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Looks like they fixed it today. But yeah I probably should have clarified that Google Voice has been a pretty terrible UX and quality overall for years. I really need to just bite the bullet and port …
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I had free Starlink wifi on a recent flight (Hawaiian) and it was an insanely better internet experience than I've ever had on a plane.
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I got sniped away from Visible (Verizon MVNO) by US Mobile (multi-carrier MVNO) during a Black Friday sale. USM has an interesting thing where you can actually get a separate eSIM for each of the majo…
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Love seeing this written in C with an organic, grass-fed Makefile. Any details on why you decided to go that route instead of using something with more hype?
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Here's a few I care about: * Boots almost instantly into a usable system * I can read and understand every line of code that is running * I can understand all of the hardware it's running on…
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I agree AI is interesting here. It raises the level of abstraction in a similar way to the OS/Browser/language, but it does so by depending on a lot of data, as opposed to depending on a lot…
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If websites removed all CSS and JS, they could still provide almost all the worthwhile content that's currently available, and browsers could become user agents again.
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I didn't know about livecoding; thanks for that! It's seems like the Tulip could definitely be used for something like that, though you might have to write quite a bit of your own framework …
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If you're staying in python or another dynamic language it could probably work. Unfortunately I don't think there are a lot of native compilers that run on esp32s, though there are some[0] […
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What I love about this is the reduction in complexity compared to how something like this would typically be built today. If I were to build a synth a year ago I probably would have used Rust compiled…
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> After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models Sounds like Apple Foundation Models aren't exactly foundatio…
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My main concern with LLVM is that it adds 30+ million lines of code dependency to any language that relies on it. Part of the reason I'm not ready to go all in on Rust is that I'm not willin…
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My perspective is that RT is not the most important thing for most or all of my projects. Concurrency on the other hand is very useful to me, and one of the main reasons I would need an RTOS. So for m…
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Rust and QUIC are bloated, but I'll take WASM and RISC-V
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The claim is you can get embedded concurrency without an OS. Do you disagree? I prefer C for embedded but must admit that's pretty compelling.
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Bitchat is BLE right? Are you using a custom LoRa protocol or bridging to Meshtastic or something?
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I'm still a noob but it seems like there's also a distinction between bare metal embedded and RTOS, which is higher level. I think STMs are more commonly run bare metal but esp32s use a vers…
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I bought one of these on Amazon last week for $25: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-c6-touch-lcd-1.47.htm I've been really impressed. It's basically a hackable Fitbit with no…