Steve VanderLeest

High-Fidelity Discipleship: What Engineering Taught Me About Modeling Christ faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2026/05/high-f…

How Safe is My Castle? faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-sa…

How Safe is my Castle? faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-sa…

Technology Should Recognize Human Frailty faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2026/03/techno…

Welcome to the Fishbowl: Do we have the Right to Privacy? faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2026/03/welcom…

Second Commandment Technology: Part 2 faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2026/01/second…

Who is the alien at your gates? In case you missed it, I have posted a new blog thinking about technology and Christian faith... faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2025/11/second…

"Second Commandment Technology: Part 1" - next installment of an occasional blog on engineering, technology, and Christian faith. faithfultechnology.blogspot.com/2025/11/second…

Registration is open for the Digital Avionics Systems Conference in Montréal 14-18 Sep 2025. 2025.dasconline.org

Digital Avionics Systems Conference in Montréal, Sep 2025. Abstracts due this coming Monday, 10 Feb 2025. Please consider sharing your work! 2025.dasconline.org #avionics #DASC

Digital Avionics Systems Conference in Montréal, Sep 2025. Abstracts due in less than one month, 10 Feb 2025. Please consider sharing your work! 2025.dasconline.org #avionics #DASC

My book (co-authored with Derek Schuurman and Ethan Brue) went into a third printing this year! I'm gratfule to see we continue to find readers interested how Christian faith can influence engineering and design work. ivpress.com/a-christian-fi…

I'm now on Bluesky, svleest.bsky.social

Digital Avionics Systems Conference abstracts due Feb 10. One topic is Avionics Platforms: Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA); configuration, certification; network; scalability, High-performance computing; Spacecraft and satellite 2025.dasconline.org #Avionics #DASC

Consider submitting your work in avionics to the AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference. Abstracts are due Feb. 23. dasconline.org #avionics #aerospace

My team at Boeing is working to broaden the use of Linux in aerospace. If you have relevant experience, such as with Linux internals or building custom embedded distros with yocto, please contact me for more info on our openings.

@ToAllPointsWest @phoronix Another slide in our presentation makes this point -- that Linux is extensively tested, which builds the case for safety that we need. Also, the level of rigor needed to put software in space is challenging, but not as high as the FAA requires for commercial aircraft.

@phoronix They left out that the source code for Linux is publicly available and can be tested by anyone, to any extreme, at any time. Hell I believe NASA uses Linux.

The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes phoronix.com/news/Linux-On-…

@locked_puppy @phoronix We don't think we would even necessarily need to fork. Simply use yocto to build a custom distro that only includes the parts we need (and can demonstrate are safe with evidence)

@AlexVSharp @phoronix Actually, our presentation listed these objections and then the next slide listed how we think each can be addressed. The summary is that although challenging, we think Linux could be used for safety-critical aerospace use cases.

@phoronix Many of these sound like classic pro-proprietary talking points I've heard a lot over the years. Most of 'em turned out false in practice. If I was a cynic (which I am biased towards) I'd wager this is more based on keeping a monopoly on avionics modules. aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9995…