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I have a new blog! I’ve been rather dissatisfied with this hosted Wordpress service for a while and the recent unpleasantness from the Automattic CEO was enough to make me move on from here. …| codeinsecurity
I have a new blog! I’ve been rather dissatisfied with this hosted Wordpress service for a while and the recent unpleasantness from the Automattic CEO was enough to make me move on from here. …| codeinsecurity
Ever wondered why 100nF is a go-to value for decoupling capacitors? This number has pervaded in datasheets and electronics advice going back to the 1980s, and is still widely present in the datashe…| codeinsecurity
Back in August I did a stream on Twitch where I dug through the OCP Grand Teton server chassis design. The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organisation that works to design and publish open server…| codeinsecurity
This isn’t really a blog post in the normal sense. I got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 31, primarily as a result of seeing other people talk about ADHD and realising that their experiences s…| codeinsecurity
The SPICE models released by vendors are often really bad, producing results that do not anywhere near match the behaviour described in the datasheet. A recent example I ran into was for the CREE X…| codeinsecurity
This is a short rewrite of a post I wrote elsewhere, but which is no longer easily searchable or accessible. If you’ve got a DIMM that’s going bad and your system supports Machine Check…| codeinsecurity
This blog post is a companion piece to my LED PWM Calculator web tool. Your eyes are part of an evolutionary pathway that started more than half a billion years ago. Vision capable of accurately id…| codeinsecurity
Intel has a technology called Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) that lets you set up RAID arrays of NVMe SSDs, with the RAID calculations being offloaded to specialised hardware on the CPU instead of bein…| codeinsecurity
This is part two of my “convert a bunch of notes I made about capacitors into a blog post” series. If you missed part one, which covered ceramics and MLCCs, you may wish to read it firs…| codeinsecurity
I’ve been reading about capacitors a lot lately. Not just their high-level circuit behaviours, but also their materials and physical properties. I put together a heap of notes on the topic. K…| codeinsecurity
Content warning: this post contains references to online stalking, doxxing, harassment, and deadnaming. I have a lot of opinions about copyright and the DMCA, but a vanishingly small proportion of …| codeinsecurity
