I recently made this a vision-controlled pen plotter: People seemed to like it and were asking about it, so I thought I’d write about it here! I recently started working as a computer vision software engineer at a robotics company. … Read more
Last year, I create Fake Parallel Printer, a tool to capture the output of the parallel printer port of old-ish test equipment so that it can be converted into screenshots for blog posts etc. It’s definitely a niche tool, but … Read more
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to use the rayon framework in Rust to automatically parallelize a loop computation across multiple CPU cores. Disappointingly, my benchmarks showed that this only provided a 2x speedup for my workload, on a … Read more
This is directly inspired by Engineering for Slow Internet. I figured I’d give running with dogshit internet on my desktop and phone a go to see how poorly (or well!) specific applications behave. This is not an in-depth review of … Read more
I started learning Rust about 3 or 4 years ago. I am now knee-deep in several very complex Rust projects that keep slamming into the limitations of the Rust compiler. One of the most common and obnoxious problems is hitting … Read more
By Artyom Bologov I am a programmer. A Lisp programmer, in fact. I have a creeping desire to understand Lambda Calculus because it’s a powerful and elegant tool and an inspiring idea underlying many functional languages and idioms. I use … Read more
← Back to Kevin’s homepagePublished: 2024 November 2 Have you ever wished for a 500 Hz, millimeter-precise linear position sensing system? Well you’re in luck — all you need is some circuit board, a basic microcontroller, and a wee bit … Read more
This is more technical than my previous posts. In terms of Castro itself, the app is doing great. Last week we again hit new user highs for 2024, presumably spurred by the pumpkin icon. The app is how users experience … Read more