I studied computer science in college. I earned my BS in 2019, and entered the workforce working for a big company on an embedded OS. Quite honestly, while some of the classes that I took provided some useful information and set my mindset in a positive direction at school, there …

Android Studio is a great example of what not to do when building a development environment for a device.

To be clear, they get some things right, but by and large the whole system is kind of bad, and encourages experimentation while simultaneously punishing it.

A Good Toolchain

Before I …

Starting this one with another disclaimer, I'm not a Linux kernel developer (though I have worked on kernels before) and my knowledge of Rust mainly lies in application programming. If that's a deal breaker for you, skip this one. If it's not and you want to hear yet another random …

Quick disclaimer before getting too far, this article is targeted at a slightly less technical audience than usual, so if I'm explaining a lot of (what you consider to be) basic stuff, that's why.

Today's world is filled with "Apps" which run on "Phones". Let's just think about this for …

I got asked recently why I decided to make a prototype of something in Rust, and I'm not happy with how I responded. There's a lot of reasons why I'm not happy with my answer, but the crux of the matter is that I didn't fully represent the circumstances that …

Recently I was browsing through YouTube, and it kept suggesting this video about programming mistakes, with one of those paper-cutout like CG thumbnails. My first impression was that it was one of those "let me show you how to code" videos, like so many of YouTube's suggestions to me are …