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Live coding in front of an audience can be exciting, except when there’s a glitch. Make one typo during your demo and you could spend the rest of the presentation troubleshooting while hundreds of onlookers watch you struggle. Not fun....

lunr.js delivers fast search results because the entire search process happens in the browser. There is no network delay because the network never gets touched during the search. Speed is one reason why this blog uses lunr.js for search. If...

This blog is built on three powerful tools, commonly used in the open source community: Jekyll, the Ruby-based static page generator. Static pages are fast because there’s no database to hit. GitHub, the collaboration tool for developers. Also useful for...

Every great technology started as a toy. People played with kites and paper airplanes for thousands of years before the Wright Brothers achieved powered flight. Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage toyed with the analytical engine over a hundred years before...

Thank you to the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM Chicago) for inviting me to present Parallella: Supercomputer for Embedded Systems at the December 2015 meeting. Slides and video appear below.

Why Headless? Running a computer “headless” means running it with no display, no keyboard, no mouse. The only directly attached cables are power and a network connection. Why would you run a computer headless? Headless configurations are typically used in...