Blake Smith

Moved most of my Twitter usage over to Mastodon these days, and really enjoying it. You can find me over there at @blake@bsd.network. Hope to see you there!

@realoctoapp Been trying OctoApp for the last several months, and just upgraded to premium. You've built an amazing application that's helped me so much on monitoring my 3d prints. Thanks for all the hard work, and a great product! I'm an OctoApp fan for life!

Got a gift in the mail today! It's Precursor: a mobile security focused handheld. Can't wait to dive deeper into the FPGA, and get the RISCV soft core going. Hoping to port a simple Rust TOTP implementation to it, and keep my 2FA keys in this thing. Thanks @xobs & @bunniestudios!

@paytonrules Yup, down here too

Huge Xfinity outage? Maybe I’ll actually get some work done

Hardware hacking time! I wrote a blog post about a custom USB "macropad" / media controller prototype I designed and built. blakesmith.me/2021/03/06/har…

Just got a @MouserElec shipment with some i.MX6 ARM processors and some DRAM. Inspired by @jaydcarlson's awesome embedded Linux blog post, the plan is to turn these into some small embedded Linux PCBs to bootstrap a Linux buildroot and play around. Super excited!

@gfredericks_ I have to consult the man pages every single time for this one..

How many neurons does it take to remember that the port flag for ssh is -p but for scp it's -P

@ivan3bx What are you re-reading?

@wezm Thanks! I use a hot air solder station. You definitely need flux as well! Apply flux, tin pads, place chip, heat from above. The big flash chip was to play with USB mass storage. Hope this helps!

@blakesmith As someone that dabbles in PCB design and embedded Rust I enjoyed your Rust on a ATSAMD51 post. I had a couple of questions. How did you solder the MCU to the board? What's the purpose of the big flash chip?

@mikelikesbikes Oh man, so jealous of your Groupon Now headband!

I'm teaching a circuits and soldering 101 session at @SproutSocial soon, and the circuit boards arrived today from the factory. Turned out better than I expected!

Check out part 4 of my 1978 Puch Maxi Moped Electric conversion project. Entering the home stretch soon! blakesmith.me/2019/10/01/mop…

Making My Own USB Keyboard From Scratch : blakesmith.me/2019/01/16/mak… cr @blakesmith

@b_gerstle Thanks for the question @b_gerstle, and thanks for helping to fill in the gaps in my Swift knowledge. It's generally a bad smell if you're trying to get at a mutable reference through an Arc in Rust - unless you can guarantee that you don't have other references.

However, Swift doesn't allow decrementing references (i.e. `drop`) at runtime, so there's no need for Rust's `try_unwrap` or `get_mut` to get the underlying value. The only "unwrapping" Swift has is for weak references, represented as Optionals.

@blakesmith thanks for a great Rust intro at @8thLightInc! I asked the question about ref counting in Rust vs. Swift. After some more reading, I've come to the (preliminary) conclusion that in Swift, references are analogous to Rust's Arc. 1/2

@seg1o Thank you sir! Good to hear from you!

@blakesmith Hey welcome back to twitter Mr. Insightful :)

Yes, the team writes the code, but the code also writes the team. Something I have to constantly remind myself when dreaming about our future architecture.

@drtangible 💙💙💙 ! You have it in your periodic reading list eh? 😎

Proud to work with such a great team at @SproutSocial, one of @glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2017. bit.ly/2ga6BsM

@J_Justified Love it! We'll kick him out early. ;-)