Google: We’re, like, SO good at AI
Also Google: We can save you 20 milliseconds on your navigation, so we are sending you through a circuitous route through the dodgiest part of town
[Old guy rant] Back in my day, you didn’t need to scroll a third of the way down the page to get past AI and sponsored results on Google!
I know I am just joining the chorus, but if the coding tools out in the world are so groundbreaking (as every new tool release and every evangelist talks about them that way), why aren’t software and software products…better?
I recently found out about some data scraping stuff that Roku does. Kind of sours me on the company. But I am still amazed by the feature to share the audio from the media on a TV to a local smartphone for headphone listening.
Sometimes explaining something you’ve been working on to a friend really makes you stop and say, “wow, I know more about this area than I thought!”
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (ornament printing season)
After more than a year at my current home, I finally opened up the silver box on the side of my house and answered my own question of, “huh, I wonder why these patio lights come on at a random time?” Turns out, it was a timer. Yep. Thanks, Occam
Had a chance to catch up with former guest on TAH Tom Lee (Stanford EE prof, scope nut, RF wizard). Listened to his episode before we chatted, what a joyful listen/trip down memory lane that was
An Interview with Tom Lee | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
Tom Lee is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and the head of the Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits lab. He also is the author of Planar Microwave Engineering, a text about RFIC design. He joins Chris to chat about scopes, Maxwell's equations, and a lot more.
It feels like the whole world is passing me by when it comes to Discord. I know it is a spectacularly popular platform for developer communities, but I cannot bring myself to use it regularly.
Hell is other peoples’ schematics
OK, yeah, and often my own as well