PinnedMike PucholModeling Starlink capacityPrior attempts to calculate Starlink’s potential for service have been theoretical. We simulate based on the actual constellation.Oct 2, 20224Oct 2, 20224
Mike PucholNo, 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.Mar 31, 2023Mar 31, 2023
Mike PucholFlammable 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…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
Mike PucholFlammable cloudsJust before 1AM CET on March 10th, thousands of players were busy hacking away at their bases on Rust, dozens of criminals were busy…Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021
Mike PucholHow & 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…Feb 16, 20211Feb 16, 20211
Mike PucholLTE 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…Dec 2, 20201Dec 2, 20201
Mike PucholLTE 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…Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020
Mike PucholMaking the Adafruit Trinket M0 more usefulIn the world of embedded devices and Arduino-compatible development boards, tradeoffs between cost, functionality, and processing…Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
Mike PucholA 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 KenyaMay 4, 20201May 4, 20201