PinnedMike Puchol·Oct 2, 2022Modeling Starlink capacityPrior attempts to calculate Starlink’s potential for service have been theoretical. We simulate based on the actual constellation.A response icon7A response icon7
Mike Puchol·Mar 31, 2023No, GPT-4 is not going to get developers fired (yet)…I tried to see for myself if ChatGPT could take away a decent software developer’s job, by throwing a simple trigonometry problem at it.
Mike Puchol·Mar 17, 2021Flammable clouds — part deux: What happened at OVH?After my recent article about the fire at the OVH data center in Strasbourg, which destroyed an entire building and thousands of servers…
Mike Puchol·Mar 12, 2021Flammable cloudsJust before 1AM CET on March 10th, thousands of players were busy hacking away at their bases on Rust, dozens of criminals were busy…
Mike Puchol·Feb 16, 2021How & when to email the CEOYou have probably been here before: a product or service you have purchased with your hard-earned cash has failed you. Possibly more than…A response icon1A response icon1
Mike Puchol·Dec 2, 2020LTE explained… to people like me! — Part 2: modulating the pipesIn Part 1, we examined the fundamentals around how LTE uses increasing amounts of radio bandwidth in order to transmit more data. In this…A response icon1A response icon1
Mike Puchol·Dec 1, 2020LTE explained… to people like me! — Part 1: radio basicsIn my first post about Loon, I took at look at the flight control characteristics, but also embarked in a three-part series that also…
Mike Puchol·Nov 29, 2020Making the Adafruit Trinket M0 more usefulIn the world of embedded devices and Arduino-compatible development boards, tradeoffs between cost, functionality, and processing…
Mike Puchol·May 4, 2020A curious engineer peeked under the hood of a Loon…How is Loon doing five years after my first analysis? First in a three-part series, looking into Loon’s deployment in KenyaA response icon1A response icon1
