A snapshot comparison of the internet service providers that UTOPIA fiber supports.| luke.hsiao.dev
I’m a big fan of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Berkeley Mono (TX-02).| Luke Hsiao's blog
I undervolted and reapplied thermal paste to an old T480s to find surprising improvements of 12% and 24% CPU performance for single- and multi-core workloads, respectively.| luke.hsiao.dev
If the goal is to actually come to some solution, consider using a steel man approach, it's a more effective way to debate.| luke.hsiao.dev
Those who know me know that I am fairly introverted.| Luke Hsiao's blog
Company culture is important. One aspect that particularly affects people's day-to-day life is whether, as a friend said, they have "teammates, not coworkers". This post explores the distinction.| luke.hsiao.dev
This is mostly a note-to-self.| Luke Hsiao's blog
Oral histories are easy to conduct, and the recordings can have incredible family value. Here are some ideas from my experience doing them.| luke.hsiao.dev
Here's a suggested list of music to listen to when trying to assess the characteristics of some new headphones/IEMs.| luke.hsiao.dev
As an engineer, I’m always refining which tools are in my toolbox. Here’s a big list of software I enjoy using in 2024. There are big overlaps with my list in 2023. One change I’ve made this year: I’m dropping all mentions of anything I don’t touch at least once in a month. So, please refer to 2023 for some honorable, but less regular, mentions.| Luke Hsiao's blog
Inspired by Omakub and intrigued by Project Bluefin, I decided to try my own swing at an opinionated developer setup with a one-line installer.| luke.hsiao.dev
Have you considered explicitly writing out the mission, principles, and values for your family? About a year ago, my wife and I had some big changes in life: a young child, living in a new state, planting some roots. It seemed like an apropos time to make a declaration of sorts of our family mission, principles, and values so that we could point back to the document, as both it and our family evolve over time.| Luke Hsiao's blog
How is your knowledge of knots?| Luke Hsiao's blog
My attempt at creating a simple, automatable computer task to interest kids in learning more about computers. An implementation for one of Marc Scott's clever challenges.| luke.hsiao.dev
This little needle makes fixing tiny loose threads a breeze.| luke.hsiao.dev
Sharing my method for updating the BIOS on older Thinkpads when I don't have Windows.| luke.hsiao.dev
This little thing is one of my favorite pieces of (non-computer) hardware.| luke.hsiao.dev
Some random musings on why it feels good to invest in tools and interfaces.| luke.hsiao.dev
A toy project to explore Rocket v0.5.0 and Shuttle, while still being useful.| luke.hsiao.dev
If you are at a company which owns their own hardware to run GitHub self-hosted runners, you know this can save your company a significant amount of money. However, there are a fair amount of nuances to watch out for. In this post, one thing to watch out for when restoring a Python virtualenv from cache.| Luke Hsiao's blog
Have you considered writing documentation for your house?| luke.hsiao.dev