I remember when I was young watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG), and thinking about how cool it would be to talk to Data (the android).

I particularly remember thinking hard about the episode where a kid admires and looks up to Data so much, that he pretends to be like him in every way (including being emotionless).

I recently have had the pleasure to use a TUXEDO Stellaris 16 - Gen 7 laptop.

The main reason I’m using this laptop is for the Linux support, which is superb.

Another reason is because it is just super cool! Literally!

One of its accessories is the Aquaris water cooler.

It is a generational thing (probably?), but I just don’t really like all the emojis we use all the time.

I want to say it started back, before LLMs. I want to say in dating profiles?

And for some reason I associate its popularity with Notion.

Somehow it gained popularity as bullet points in more technical writing and company communication…

I really love E Ink (or epaper, eInk, etc) dashboards.

I love the low power, the contrast, and just the future yet low-tech look.

This post is on another dashboard I made to show the solar production of the array in my home.

For the longest time I’ve thought that we were doing container images “wrong”.

Container images always felt so unnecessarily BIG.

Yes, there are lots and lots of ways to make images smaller, but still fundamentally they are shipping a root filesystem around. “Works on my machine!” Let’s ship the machine then.

High Performance Computing (HPC) has always been interesting to me, ever since the first time I read a Beowulf cluster joke on slashdot.

High performance interconnects, huge storage, hundreds of nodes all working as one, the Top 500 list, what is not to love?

I’ve only dabbled with the HPC world a little bit in my career, so this blog post is NOT written from the perspective of an HPC veteran.

This blog post falls into the “I hope it is useful to someone” category.

I recently had the pleasure of figuring out how to restore a Cru RTX800-TR RAID array that was suspected to be inoperable.

Stealing a poker metaphor, there is an important lesson that senior engineers exercise when working in tech: Knowing when to Hold ’em, Fold ’em, or when to walk (or run!) away.

I had previously blogged about an Eink dashboard for tracking baby stuff (see more in the eink series at the end of the page).

I’ve now repurposed that original baby dashboard (since I no longer need to track poopy diapers) into a weather station, and I would like to share some technical details about how it works.

I had previously blogged about an Eink dashboard for tracking baby stuff.

I’ve since added a new display for our family calendar, and I would like to share some technical details about how it works.