#724 – All Heat, No Useful Work
- Chris just got back from a work trip to Madrid
- He also got to hang out with Matt Venn (and coworker Mike Szczys) in Valencia
- Dave has a new data center going in across the street
- Chris enjoyed this episode of Prof G Markets where they talked about the impact of data centers on power and the rise of “behind the meter” generation
- Dave without internet for a week. Chris has had multiday losses after fiber has been cut in his neighborhood.
- Humanoid robots…on a plane!
- Chris has been working on 0201 components on a tiny Bluetooth board
- The Iran War and subsequent rise in petroleum product sourcing issues is starting to impact the PCB industry
- PCBs we are used to ordering at low cost (JLC, PCBway, etc) are normally loss leaders to get larger business later
- Chris found his low cost microscope from Florin/Voltlog trinocular video
- lcamtuf will be on the show soon, Chris bought a CNC mill because of a single webpage of his making
- TagMod board is a new breakout Chris made for injecting power through a 10 pin TagConnect cable.
- NXP devboards somehow have LEDs as bright as the sun
- Dave has been revisiting his solar analytics (update: he figured out he’s getting charged more too!)
- Chris has been working at Canonical (makers of Ubuntu, new owners of Golioth) for a few months now. That was the trip to Spain.
- Dogfooding your own product
- Chris created a backronym: “Application Level Program Optimization” or… ALPO
- Chris built a new vibe coded project for talking to Zephyr devices using Web Serial and passing firmware packages over SMP
- CI/CD
- Debian now requires “fully reproducable” builds to harden against supply chain attacks
- Veritasium video about Linux bug