Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS
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Antithesis – Autonomous Testing
Will Wilson CEO February 13, 2024 It’s pretty weird for a startup to remain in stealth for over five years. People ask me why we did that, and my answer is always the same: “We wanted to build something awesome before releasing it out into the wild, and we were lucky enough to be able […]
Is Something Bugging You?
Will Wilson CEO February 13, 2024 It’s pretty weird for a startup to remain in stealth for over five years. People ask me why we did that, and my answer is always the same: “We wanted to build something awesome before releasing it out into the wild, and we were lucky enough to be able […]
Memfault (YC W19) Is Hiring a Firmware Engineer in NYC/Boston
Memfault is seeking an embedded software engineer to join as a Firmware Solution Architect. You’ll be working with others on the Developer Experience team to build out Memfault’s firmware SDK spanning across a multitude of MCU architectures, RTOS’s, and vendor libraries. You’ll also be working with cutting-edge IoT companies as they integrate Memfault for the […]
Getting the RK3588 SoC supported in upstream Linux (2023)
The Rockchip RK3588 system-on-chip (SoC) is an impressive flagship with 8 ARM cores (4x A76, 4x A55), plenty of cache, and a vast amount of peripherals. Among other things this SoC has an Arm G610 Mali GPU, multiple PCIe lanes, hardware video decoders and encoders with 8K support, a display engine supporting 8K resolution, 6TOPs […]
Non-code contributions are the secret to open source success
Mathematics teacher Sarah Rainsberger wasn’t planning to become an open source contributor when she started rebuilding her choir’s website. She just wanted to learn JavaScript and web development for fun. “I wasn’t a programmer, but I often found I was the only remotely technical person in a group,” she explained. “That’s how I ended up […]
So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
[embedded content] My FOSDEM 2024 talk on little known Git stuff that this blog series is based off. Years ago I used to do talks on advanced Git stuff. For the last decade or so, I’ve sort of assumed that everyone knew all the advanced command line stuff by now. However, in the last few […]
F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
Enlarge / BS F-Zero Deluxe sounds like a funny name until you know that the first part stands for “broadcast satellite.” Guy Perfect, Power Panda, Porthor Nintendo’s Satellaview, a Japan-only satellite add-on for the Super Famicom, is a rich target for preservationists because it was the home to some of the most ephemeral games ever […]
StreamingLLM: tiny tweak to KV LRU improves long conversations
When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the bots’ performance to rapidly deteriorate. A team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has pinpointed a surprising cause of this problem and developed a simple solution that enables […]
Nokia Made Too Many Phones
The phone market in 2000-10 was crazy, but Nokia’s strategy was even crazier. Just in the year ‘05 alone, it launched more than fifty models, more than the number of iPhone models Apple has shipped in sixteen years since the first. Granted, many of the Nokia models were barely different from each other, but nonetheless, […]