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healeycodes

695 karma · joined January 12, 2018

I write about software @ https://healeycodes.com

My email is on my home page at the bottom.

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healeycodes··on Language Design with Leo White
I'm looking forward to listening to this one. My favourite so far as been the one on Clock Synchronization (https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/)

> Clock synchronization, keeping all of the clocks on your network set to the “correct” time, sounds straightforward: our smartphones sure don’t seem to have trouble with it. Next, keep them all accurate to within 100 microseconds, and prove that you did -- now things start to get tricky. In this episode, Ron talks with Chris Perl, a systems engineer at Jane Street about the fundamental difficulty of solving this problem at scale and how we solved it.

It was so enthralling that I ordered a GPS receiver for my Raspberry Pi to bring high accuracy time to my flat!

healeycodes··on The Making of Apple’s Emoji
She's referring to the Rhode Island School of Design, her alma mater.
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