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#724 – All Heat, No Useful Work

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  • Chris just got back from a work trip to Madrid
  • He also got to hang out with Matt Venn (and coworker Mike Szczys) in Valencia
  • Dave has a new data center going in across the street
  • Chris enjoyed this episode of Prof G Markets where they talked about the impact of data centers on power and the rise of “behind the meter” generation
  • Dave without internet for a week. Chris has had multiday losses after fiber has been cut in his neighborhood.
  • Humanoid robots…on a plane!
  • Chris has been working on 0201 components on a tiny Bluetooth board
  • The Iran War and subsequent rise in petroleum product sourcing issues is starting to impact the PCB industry
  • PCBs we are used to ordering at low cost (JLC, PCBway, etc) are normally loss leaders to get larger business later
  • Chris found his low cost microscope from Florin/Voltlog trinocular video 
  • lcamtuf will be on the show soon, Chris bought a CNC mill because of a single webpage of his making
  • TagMod board is a new breakout Chris made for injecting power through a 10 pin TagConnect cable.
  • NXP devboards somehow have LEDs as bright as the sun
  • Dave has been revisiting his solar analytics (update: he figured out he’s getting charged more too!)
  • Chris has been working at Canonical (makers of Ubuntu, new owners of Golioth) for a few months now. That was the trip to Spain.
  • Dogfooding your own product
  • Chris created a backronym: “Application Level Program Optimization” or… ALPO
  • CI/CD
  • Debian now requires “fully reproducable” builds to harden against supply chain attacks
  • Veritasium video about Linux bug

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