Situation​

When I work from home, I often find myself working from my laptop for the portability. My laptop doesn't have all the resources that my desktop has, so I normally SSH into a Virtual Box VM that runs from my desktop PC. This works great when I am home, but I've found that on several occasions that I am on the road or not within physical reach of the PC hosting the VMs. Unfortunately, between Microsoft Updates happening more often now, and other things that potentially can cause my PC to reboot itself, I'll wake up to find that I have no connection to the VM I planned to work from.

Overview​

Started using tmux this year in an attempt to streamline some of my typical workflows. It also is handy to make up for the lack of terminal tab support in VS Code. When I first started using tmux, it became quickly apparent that copy/paste actions are a little more involved. Since I only ever did horizontal splits, I quickly just fell back to holding Shift for everything.

Overview​

In my previous article on Build Systems for Embedded Development: From 30000 feet., I had concluded that CMake was going to be where any initial efforts would take place. There are a few things that I want to accomplish to prove to myself that CMake can get the job done:

Overview​

I've been developing software for over 20 years. In that time I've used make more than any other build system tool. It is the grand ol' build system that many developers find themselves cursing, regardless of the fact that OSS has been riding make for much of its existance. Over the past 10 years, I've also used variants of Autotools, SCons, CMake, and other custom solutions. I've even, twice, rolled my own build systems (and not just wrappers around make or scons).

Case Styles​

Reading through Google news, I came across a term I never heard before that really stuck with me. "kebab-case". This is often what I use when naming files that are composed up multiple words. Others were suggesting that this is the best convention for git branch names as well. To recap, here is a list of the different case types:

My family often requests my attention while I'm listening to a video or music. Having the volume and pause/play actions mapped are very important to me so I can give them the attention they deserve. Looking at my apple keyboard, there are F16-F19 keys that are completely unused in my Windows/Linux environment. Therefore I mapped them to the following actions:

Embedded Systems Primer​

Wikipedia defines an embedded system as "a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system."

Background​

Recently while listening to a Soft Skills Engineering podcast Correcting English and Tyranny of the Urgent, a topic was brought up about solving technical debt and escaping the "Tyranny of the Urgent". The discussion that followed was informative, but one of the hosts mentioned a phrase "I intend to ..." that originated from a book called Turn The Ship Around!.

Overview​

Myself and some friends of mine are developing a course for embedded systems development and analysis. We thought that going with a Raspberry Pi 4 as the target might be a useful thing to do because when the students are done with the course material and labs, they'll end up with an insanely powerful and useful platform to continue experimentation/application with.

Overview​

In the current world climate we're always looking for the next best screen sharing technology or collaboration tool. Today I came across a need to provide a tour of some code and demonstrate some examples of running various commands. I was on an isolated network so the availability of collaboration tools were very limited.