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Time Management for Senior Engineers

I recently joined LinkedIn as a Senior Staff engineer–an individual contributor role more senior than any of my previous roles. As such, I’ve been inundated with every manner of request for my time....

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A non-professional critique of the Weather Underground app

I’m not a UX expert, but I have opinions. Weather Underground is one of my most-used apps. It gathers data from thousands of neighborhood weather stations run by individuals. Here’s the new front page:...

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Find me on Micahcosmos

I haven’t been blogging as much here lately, but you can find me on Micahcosmos. That’s it. That’s the post. Click the link to continue.The post Find me on Micahcosmos first appeared on MicahLogic.

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Tearing down the Xiegu GSOC

The Xiegu GSOC, marketed by Chongqing Xiegu Technology Co., Ltd, under the retail name Radioddity, gets billed as a “Universal controller” for ham radio. It boasts some impressive hardware, including a...

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Cleaning Data by David Mertz now available

I’ve been a fan of David Mertz since I devoured (and practically lived out of) his book Text Processing in Python. So I was thrilled at the chance to be a technical reviewer for his new book Cleaning...

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Meetings are hard, and no software can handle it

Meetings, the cause and solution for all work-related problems, amirite? But seriously, arranging and then actually holding meetings with others, plus a dash of follow-ups, is how things get done in...

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Dactyl Manuform mechanical keyboard build notes

There are a bunch of complete build logs available for the Dactyl Manuform and similar mechanical keyboards, so I wanted to focus on the specific design choices I made and why. Huge hat-tip to Zack...

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The true meaning of Zettelkasten

Note-taking. There’s a seeming endless variety of apps as well as physical notebooks. Bullet journal, anyone? Scratch the surface and you’ll come across an unusual word–Zettelkasten. It’s the German...

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Why almost all Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) Neopixel code is wrong

Bold title, but stay with me. Neopixels, based on the WS2812b, are great. You can string together a bunch of them with only 3 wires, and make the whole string blinky blinky. The three connections are...

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Low-level bit-twiddling in high-level languages

Most languages include bitwise operations like logical AND, OR, XOR, inversion, and shift left/right operators. And most of these are just barely evolved beyond the level of assembly language operators...

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Easy Repair: Dell Chromebook, no power on, blinking light

Putting this out there for search engines, since someone will probably need it some day. Symptom: Dell Chromebook 11 inch 3380 would not turn on, despite being on charger all night. Same effect with...

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Carol Dubinko, 1948 – 2022

Carol Dubinko died peacefully in her sleep at 11:51pm Eastern on May 28, 2022. She was 73 years old. She will be missed.The post Carol Dubinko, 1948 – 2022 first appeared on MicahLogic.

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A Twitter thread, in six tweets

On the evening of November 17, 2022, I tweeted thusly: Lesson 1: Before you ask people to be hardcore-devoted to you, first you need to demonstrate that you have the qualities of a leader. In THEIR...

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Why XML still matters after 25 years

December 2022. There’s a definite sense that technology is accelerating. In the last six months alone, a handful of AI technologies have made incredible leaps forward in generating images and fluent...

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Open to work: What I’m Looking For

(cross-posted to LinkedIn) To work for a company that gets acquired is a dream for many, but one of the downsides is the potential for staffing cuts–especially for someone who’s only been there a few...

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