Rick Altherr

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Pronounced like mischief.

BMC Bandit. Secure boot afficionado. FPGA historian. Quantum computer designer. 🏎️, 🔧, 🚜, Corgis.

TAI is time, all else is presentation

They/them
Monroe, WA

Mentoringhttp://calendly.com/mxshift
Bloghttps://www.kc8apf.net
Ko-Fihttp://ko-fi.com/mxshift
Wondered if San Francisco had changed in the six years I've been away. It really hasn't.
Kinda want to build a Gotek out of XC4000s.
I have ideas for 3 new projects. They are being added to the list of in progress projects that only grows.
Finally got the water pump attached to the new EJ25 shortblock. Why am I bothering to post about such a trivial task? Because I initially reused the bolts from the old block. Turns out they had been over torqued and stretched such that they would thread in almost all the way and _then_ rip out threads even with a torque wrench set to 12 N-m (basically hand tight). By the time I figured this out, I had installed Time-Serts in 4 of the holes and broken 3 of those. Good thing Big-Serts exist to give a third chance.

Do you enjoy old computers and live in the US Pacific Northwest? We're six weeks out from the first Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest since 2019!

We'd love to see you there and we'd love your help getting the word out. Boosts appreciated!

https://vcfpnw.org

VCF PNW

New profile photo because I needed a badge photo for new job.
TFW a problematic person from your past reappears by tagging you and your emotionally abusive ex-spouse in an Instagram comment on someone else's post about unequal division of labor in relationships because men don't recognize the labor of childcare.

Reflecting on all the times in my career as a software engineer I have been told that, yes, things were a bit unfair to me as a woman, but that I was being a trailblazer, I was the one discovering and establishing the path that would enable others to follow.

But you go back to the 70s and you see the same number of women programmers, being fed that exact same line
And in the 80s
and the 90s
and so on to today. The "trailblazer" narrative is a lie told by managers to make themselves feel better

Not liking a few YouTube channels pivoting to a bunch of videos of sorting through their various Aliexpress purchases.