Principal Engineer at Sprout Social
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2008
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Moved most of my Twitter usage over to Mastodon these days, and really enjoying it. You can find me over there at @blake@bsd.network. Hope to see you there!
Got a gift in the mail today! It's Precursor: a mobile security focused handheld. Can't wait to dive deeper into the FPGA, and get the RISCV soft core going. Hoping to port a simple Rust TOTP implementation to it, and keep my 2FA keys in this thing. Thanks @xobs & @bunniestudios!
Hardware hacking time! I wrote a blog post about a custom USB "macropad" / media controller prototype I designed and built. blakesmith.me/2021/03/06/har…
Just got a @MouserElec shipment with some i.MX6 ARM processors and some DRAM. Inspired by @jaydcarlson's awesome embedded Linux blog post, the plan is to turn these into some small embedded Linux PCBs to bootstrap a Linux buildroot and play around. Super excited!
I'm teaching a circuits and soldering 101 session at @SproutSocial soon, and the circuit boards arrived today from the factory. Turned out better than I expected!
Check out part 4 of my 1978 Puch Maxi Moped Electric conversion project. Entering the home stretch soon! blakesmith.me/2019/10/01/mop…
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Making My Own USB Keyboard From Scratch : blakesmith.me/2019/01/16/mak… cr @blakesmith
Yes, the team writes the code, but the code also writes the team. Something I have to constantly remind myself when dreaming about our future architecture.
Proud to work with such a great team at @SproutSocial, one of @glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2017. bit.ly/2ga6BsM
Bummed I missed Strange Loop this year, but excited for the rest of the @SproutSocial engineering team to be there! xitter.cf/aaronrankin/status/776…
We're @strangeloop_stl this weekend. Grab beers with 4 of our devs or stop by our booth.
Lots of great technical leadership advice in this one: The Principles of Quantum Team Management
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How the @SproutSocial Infrastructure Engineering team used @NSQio to build and power our #socialdata pipeline. bit.ly/2aDoOI9
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." African proverb and a good reminder for all creative leaders.
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Some @SproutSocial engineering interns teaching @Blakesmith some app called the snapchats
New programming rule: You're not allowed to complain about a programming language until you've put it into production.
Anyone where going to GOTO night Chicago this Thursday? Would love to meet up. eventbrite.com/e/goto-night-…
Today's neat find: "Functional Java", a library facilitating functional programming in Java. functionaljava.org/
@just3ws @chrisjpowers If I start pacing back and forth and tossing index cards in the air, it's time for an intervention. ;-)