I’m pretty sure I’ve run into this before and worked through it. But for some reason my searches didn’t land on something that clicked till I was a few iterations in. So I’m putting down a simple e...

The Github actions functionality has been pretty spectacular, in particular service containers for setting up a test environment. One bit of annoyance though can be trying to do setup on a containe...

The other day I packaged up a build of cross-compile tools for i686 bare images using the instructions from the OSDev wiki for making a cross-compiler suitable for building bootable images and kern...

I’ve been poking around with a bunch of low level programming stuff. Looking at old source code and playing with some newer examples, like Alex Parker’s fantastic example of a boot loader with asse...

I was looking through some of the old books on my bookshelf when I ran across my copy of Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System. I spent a bunch of time playing around with the code when I pi...

My parents were getting ready to sell their house a few months ago, and while I was there I grabbed a few super old computer books from when I was a kid. Nostalgia I suppose, and I figured they wo...

One of the nice things about getting FFOS 1.2 on my device is being able to use App Manager instead of the simulator plugin to do development. Given that the App Manager replaces the Simulator Dash...

I picked up a ZTE Open Firefox OS device a little while ago. Given that developer hub says it’s a “powerful device aimed at developers and early adopters worldwide” I figured it would be good for s...

A few weeks ago Nathen Harvey was kind enough to stop by and give us a critique of how we do Chef automated testing and some workflow suggestions. We had been using chef-solo to do some of the reci...

A few weeks ago Arte and Mario asked me to swing by to chat with folks participating in the Momentum accelerator to talk about scaling technology. While we were talking I pointed folks to a few po...