Programmatic Conquest

A realization that I hadn’t updated my “professional” site in a while. 

I’m still at Hyperloop One, I converted to full-time this year and have been promoted to Manager of Physical Networks, which means I’m responsible for ensuring that all the radio systems function, which is trickier than it sounds given the speed and environment and safety critical nature of things.

Crashspace is still the best community of hackers, artists, and nerds I know. If you’re in the LA area, consider stopping by, particularly if you need tools that don’t fit in your apartment, we have them. 

this is actually really interesting. attempting to open a generic c library up even more than open source licenses do (which often keep commercial programs from using them) might drive more adoption and compliance. I don’t know that i subscribe to the “one large library” concept, but it seems like there is a happy medium they are shooting for. 

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yeah.

So, that happened. 

A week later, people are coming to grips with the new normal, so I thought I would take a moment to update my “professional” blog. 

So. 

I’m still contracting for Hyperloop One. (they changed their name). It’s a really fun set of problems and I’m getting to work on hard stuff.

I am very proud of crashspace, as we enter our seventh year of operation, it’s stronger than ever as a hackerspace and community. As President of it, I get to share in the glory, but it’s really all our other members doing cool things. 

I did some contracting for smaller companies, like Pinpoint Eyes and FlyHydra, whom you may hear from soon. They have cool products, and I’m not a full team member but I am happy to have contributed some. 

I may be launching a Patreon or Patreons soon, to support some overtly political projects I am kicking around with friends privately right now. I will post about them as they launch. 

I got an iPad Pro, and I can confirm the Pencil is the best electronic drawing experience I’ve had yet. I will post art on my personal tumblr. 

Hyperloop is a crazy place. The whole company is focused on solving so many technical problems simultaneously it’s hard to get a sense of where things are. But it’s all pretty interesting.

I’m here for radio design, and am full-time, but still a contractor. Not sure if I’ll become a full employee or not yet. I was thinking after Disney I could use more time on my own projects I’ve been planning, but there’s a lot to get done here, maybe it’s more useful to focus on that. 

This is my last week at Disney. Working on Playmation has been incredibly interesting, but my contract is up, and it’s time to move on. 

A review of recent results confirming the decade or so old suspicion that old blood seems to ameliorate age-related biomarker decline. They even have a protein semi-isolated, GDF11. Look for the price of whole blood from teenagers and twenty-somethings to go up in the next few years. Transfusion is so well safety-defined already, doing human trials of this would actually be very simple, once you have an excuse to run it (the FDA does not consider “aging” a pathology, so you’d need some kind of therapeutic reasoning to get only old people in the trial. Age-related hearing loss or cognitive speed deficits maybe?)

Interesting stuff, and a perfect PS from Derek on this one: