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Letting an agent talk to my ECUs

Something has changed for me at the bench in the last few weeks, and I want to write it down before it stops feeling new. I have spent the last decade building or using diagnostic tools that put a human between the agent of investigation and the bus. CANcorder, Swift-CANyonero, my Linux toolbox — mc…

I can't cancel GitHub Copilot

Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn’t interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community members to apply for a free subscription, so I filled it out and gave it a shot. Once approved I spent 15 minutes (successfully) convincing it to write a Python script that printed out the lyrics to “All Star” verbatim, and haven’t touched it since.

Since then, like clockwork I get an email every month informing me that my...

Addressing the harassment

Kiwi Farms is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life harassment. Kiwi Farms has been tied to the suicides of three people who were victims of harassment by the website.

– Wikipedia: Kiwi Farms

About three years ago, a thread on Kiwi Farms was opened about me. In the years since, it has grown to about 1,200 posts full of bigots responding to anything and everything I do online with scorn, slurs, and overt bigotry. The thread is...

Swift beyond Apple, five and a half years later

In October 2020 I wrote that I had decided to go all-in on Swift. Not just on iOS and macOS, where Swift obviously belongs, but pretty much everywhere: servers, command-line tools, reusable frameworks, UNIX-like systems, perhaps one day even the kind of embedded-ish tooling that had followed me arou…

Rewrote my blog with Zine

15 years ago, on December 11th, 2010, at the bold age of 17, I wrote my first blog post on the wonders of the Windows Phone 7 on Blogspot. I started blogging as a kid at the behest of a family friend at Microsoft, who promised she’d make sure I would become the youngest Microsoft MVP if I started blogging. That never came to pass, though, because as I entered adulthood and started to grow independent of my Microsoft-friendly family I quickly began down the path to the free and open source software community.

Early blog posts covered intriguing topics such...

Getting Started with Phaser 4: Vite + TypeScript Setup, using the official Create Game App

Phaser 4 has arrived, bringing a fresh foundation for modern web game development. Learn to set up a brand new project using the official Create Game App, powered by Vite and TypeScript, and walk through the essential structure to get your first game up and running quickly.

Reverse engineering a USB device driver on macOS

I have been writing a macOS userspace driver for a CAN bus adapter. The device uses a custom USB protocol — bulk endpoints, vendor control transfers, a command language with opcodes and terminators. The Linux kernel has an open-source driver for the same hardware, so porting it should have been stra…

ImpossiBLE — BLE back in the iOS Simulator

For a while, Bluetooth Low Energy in the iOS Simulator was one of those things that half-worked often enough to be useful. It was never a perfect substitute for a real device — Bluetooth never is — but it helped. You could at least keep the edit/build/run cycle on the Mac while working on UI, parsin…