Coding Relic

There are only 16 characters to work with, but programmers just love coming up with creative spellings using hex numbers. I suspect that l...

Using GPL software imposes the requirement to redistribute the source code, but this requirement is routinely ignored in commercial products...

In my industry at least, the high end of the margin curve is dominated by modular systems: a chassis into which cards can be added to add fe...

Because I'm a terrible programmer, I spend a lot of time in gdb. gdb is a fantastic tool that has (so far) kept me from getting fired, b...

The first set of random musings ended up being far longer than planned, and rather a lot of material ended up on the cutting room floor. So...

Getting the kernel to successfully boot on a new board is a wonderful feeling, which lasts about 5 seconds before the application developers...

This time, Gentle Readers, we will explore something completely different. It is still related to embedded systems, for a suitably generous ...