Technical Writing
The Pulse
Weekly signals on AI, architecture, and the beautiful mess of embedded systems. Each card is a deep-dive. Click one to read the full piece.
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Articles & War Stories
Embedded
Why Python is Too Fat for the Edge
A funny but technical deep-dive into why we need to stop using interpreted languages on tiny silicon.
- #Embedded
- #Opinion
- #Humor
Embedded
BLE is Lying to Your Phone
Everything you think you know about Bluetooth Low Energy connection intervals is probably wrong.
- #Embedded
- #BLE
- #Mobile
- #Humor
Backend
Observability is Not Logging
You have 50TB of logs and zero understanding of your system. Let's fix that.
- #Backend
- #Observability
- #Architecture
Embedded
Modbus is a Haunted Protocol
A survival guide for talking to industrial equipment that was networked before the internet existed.
- #Embedded
- #Industrial
- #Protocols
- #Humor
Frontend
Stop Calling It a Design System
Your Figma library with 47 button variants is not a design system. Here is what actually is.
- #Frontend
- #Design Systems
- #Opinion
Embedded
LoRaWAN Battery Math Will Humble You
The math behind making a sensor node last 14 months on 2 AA batteries, and why your spreadsheet is lying to you.
- #Embedded
- #IoT
- #LoRaWAN
- #Hardware
Backend
Your Event Pipeline is a Lie
Why most event-driven architectures are just request-response with extra steps and a Kafka bill.
- #Backend
- #Architecture
- #Opinion
Embedded
The Control Loop Ate My Weekend
A war story about debugging a greenhouse control system that decided plants needed a sauna at 3 AM.
- #Embedded
- #War Story
- #Control Systems