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bcarlton0on The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995

This describes something from Surety, LLC. Too bad their web page doesn't have https. Hard to take them as seriously. http://surety.com/

bcarlton0on Convert your KiCAD boards into nice looking 2D pinout diagrams

How is this different from KiCAD 3D view, as seen from the top or the bottom?

bcarlton0on Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

Ductapemaster, I have done designs in networking (e.g. packet processing and 10 Gb Ethernet), wireless (e.g. baseband part of a modem), glue logic, and other more specialized areas. FPGAs have a wide variety of uses other than ASIC prototyping and small glue logic.

bcarlton0on Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

thowayedidoqo, I can still use them without the libraries. For example, I could write my own FFT or compression routine. It just may be cheaper to license them from the vendor or a third party. I have done plenty of designs without paid IP. I have used IP from Xilinx, Altera (pre-Intel), and third parties.

bcarlton0on Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

As an FPGA designer, I can't disagree more with your statement of their business model. They make money on chips. That is indisputable.

My last 3 designs used the vendor's free software, except for some IP we bought (IP=Intellectual property, a specific core). You might think of the IP as a library you would buy as a software engineer.

bcarlton0on A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks

Ubiquiti UniFi AC or UniFi AC-LR. I'm not the poster above you were asking. Never need rebooting. Present a single AP name for multiple devices and both 2.4 and 5.x GHz. Reasonable price for home use. Based on personal experience in a large house. grk, roaming works just fine.

bcarlton0on As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?

"Next dead-giveaway: non-typist code is... minimalist. They don't go the extra mile to comment things. If their typing skills are really bad, they may opt to comment the code in a second, optional pass."

Steve Yegge in http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... where he also says

"And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to [explitive] type" — Mr. Pink

And from Coding Horror (Stack Overflow co-founder):

We Are Typists First, Programmers Second https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programme...

bcarlton0on $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

If you need more storage, Delimeter Slot Hosting has a ship-us-your-storage (SSD or HD) for US $10/mo ($120/yr only). 1 GB RAM, 4 TB bandwidth. Disclaimer: I haven't used them, so I'm not sure how good they are.

https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/

bcarlton0on Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

You aren't the only one who likes it; it definitely gets noticed. They cost ~$1 (US) in quantity.

The most common question I get is "If I install the chips, what do I get?" Unfortunately, the answer is nothing. There are people who have done that.

bcarlton0on Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

Mine is a PCB (Printed Circuit Board). I designed it with KiCAD. Open source CC-BY-NC-SA.https://github.com/bdc0/businesscard

bcarlton0on Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

More invites: https://keybase.io/inv/d47ee07f0e https://keybase.io/inv/2abb2ea838 https://keybase.io/inv/a0b686f5f9