Great article on mac setup
Lots of tools are outdated by default. Got to take advantage of this blog post since I got a new laptop this summer.
https://matt.sh/setup-2021-late
Operating Systems use out of date assumptions
Interesting talk on how modern systems on a chip differ from how we imagine computers to actually work. Over the last two decades hardware has gradually abstracted away many features from the actual operating system. The computer board is now a collection of sub-computers which cooperate to mimic the operation of an actual traditional computer.
The system describe here is reminiscent of a micro service environment where you need to communicate with many different protocols to get the job done. I wonder if we can explore migrating ‘cloud’ microservice techniques down to the CPU level.
Passive Radar for finding meteors
You can detect meteors using a set of clock synchronized radios. The way it works is you monitor a reference frequency at perhaps 180MHz and can detect changes in it as meteors burn up in the atmosphere.