Beyond Naughty Processors. The world is abuzz with stuff about the Intel bugs – so much so that Meltdown and Spectre are explained by xkcd better to the masses than most technical articles. It’s as if the world woke up and saw a small bit of what can happen within computing systems and, unfortunately for Intel, gets branded with Intel. Did I … Continue reading Beyond Naughty Processors.

Google Chrome Update Allows Mute of Autoplay Videos – and More. If you’re a human, you probably have more than one tab open in your browser right now – and that means that sometime in the past, you had to hunt through tabs to find out which tab hid the video that the over-exuberant marketers hid in one of your tabs. Fear no more. In the … Continue reading Google Chrome Update Allows Mute of Autoplay Videos – and More.

Understanding Frankensystems When I was just a software engineer in the eyes of managers, I usually got tossed into undocumented complex systems that nobody could figure out easily, largely because they were… undocumented. What overwhelmed and/or intimidated others was exciting for me – exploring something new, understanding how it worked. I’d developed a toolset for exactly that, finding … Continue reading Understanding Frankensystems