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Frank Vasquez

@st8l3ss.bsky.social

technical author, Linux geek, drum n bass diehard

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nice vinyl collection

02.03.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Live somewhere else and want to lecture people on the ground right now?

As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun

24.01.2026 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 686    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code

maggieappleton.com/gastown

23.01.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 281    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 22

legend. enjoy.

21.01.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43β€―AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

25.12.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8164    πŸ” 2229    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 168
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The closing event for this year’s #Linux Plumbers Conference was held at Gonpachi on Saturday night. You may recognize this #Tokyo restaurant from Kill Bill Volume 1.

#opensource #ultraviolence #Tarantino

15.12.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Embedded Systems Engineer / Oxide

Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.

oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...

20.11.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Erlang

31.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EFF was created for scary moments like the one we’re facing now. For 35 years, EFF has fought to ensure your rights follow you online and wherever you use technology, and we're here and ready to Take Back CTRL. Join us at www.takebackctrl.org.

Music: how the future dies by mobygratis.

28.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
N3694: Functions with Data - Closures in C (A Comprehensive Proposal Overviewing Blocks, Nested Functions, and Lambdas)

Added some shenanigans about Capture Functions and forward declarations.

I probably have a bunch of typos and incomplete sentences all over the place, but I've been working on this basically for weeks in the midst of handling DV crap. Hopefully ready to submit soon.

thephd.dev/_vendor/futu...

27.10.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

WANT

27.10.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very sad news about Rainer, who passed away earlier this week. If you can help support #ALS research please consider donating.

My thoughts are with his family. We as a C++ community were lucky to have him.

09.10.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Day one of the Open Source Firmware Conference is in full swing. Christian Walter telling the story of how 9elements successfully pivoted to firmware.

#OSFC #opensource #firmware #embedded #security

07.10.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 846: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Frank Vasquez and Chris Simmonds about Embedded Linux, and the 4th edition of the Mastering Embedded Linux Programming book. How has this space &#8230;read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 846: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming

10.09.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Linux Plumbers Conference The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC brings together the top developers working on the plumbing of Linux - kernel subsystems, core libra...

Linux Plumbers 2025 in Tokyo's Call for Proposals is nearing its end!
lpc.events/blog/current...

08.09.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

branding

27.08.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pete Buttigieg messaged me

13.08.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? / Oxide Reflecting on how our compensation model is going

Some news from @oxide.computer: we got a raise! Our annual salary now stands at $235K. oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...

10.08.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

So we're outsourcing initial job interviews to AI now? You'd think all the productivity gains would free up humans for the important things, like interviewing our future co-workers.

At this pace, every candidate will need their own interview bot to keep up. Soon, bots will be interviewing bots.

04.08.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 4

got to clear it with the missus first

02.08.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

suffer little children

02.08.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Spying on the Mesh with a Raspberry Pi and GNU Radio
YouTube video by Jeff Geerling Spying on the Mesh with a Raspberry Pi and GNU Radio

Hacking the Mesh with SDR: I took a Raspberry Pi laptop and HackRF to SFO last week to see if I could decode messages at Open Sauce.

While it wasn't complete success, I learned a lot about GNU Radio, Meshtastic, and even tracking airplanes with ADS-B! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_lb...

31.07.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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If You're Into IoT Hacking, You Should Read This Book! If you're into IoT hacking then you should definitely read this book, even though it's not about hacking at all! I first came across the third edition of Mastering Embedded Linux Development last yea...

I am astounded that white hat hackers are fans of my book on #embedded #Linux. Thank you to Andrew Bellini for amplifying. Check out his amazing #IoT and #hardware #hacking course and DEF CON talk.

www.digitalandrew.io/if-youre-int...

27.07.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a booth at OpenSauce. Three tables are covered with vintage electronics of various sorts. Mike is working on the Apollo CDU at the left.

Photo of a booth at OpenSauce. Three tables are covered with vintage electronics of various sorts. Mike is working on the Apollo CDU at the left.

We're at OpenSauce 2025, showing off Apollo hardware, electromechanical computers, the MOnSter 6502, and other treats. Join me, @tubetime.bsky.social, and Mike at the CuriousMarc booth!

19.07.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

my guess is it involves eurorack

16.07.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Overlay Images To the Rescue - Frank Vasquez, Packt
YouTube video by The Linux Foundation Overlay Images To the Rescue - Frank Vasquez, Packt

Myself and the folks at Peridio are joining forces with the #Yocto and #systemd communities to build a new #Linux distro for consumer devices. Watch my recent talk from Open Source Summit North America to learn more about Avocado OS.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Is...

13.07.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Search for Animal Chin

12.07.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Speaker: Open Source Summit North America 2025 was issued by The Linux Foundation to Frank Vasquez. Earners of this badge are speakers, selected by The Linux Foundation, who have provided thought-leadership and shared best practices with attendees during their talk(s) at Open Source Summit North Ame...

View my verified achievement from @linuxfoundation.org

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04.07.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

❀️ Berlin

30.06.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ready to RISC It All? From Jurassic Park to Your Next Embedded Design
YouTube video by Peridio Ready to RISC It All? From Jurassic Park to Your Next Embedded Design

Guac Talk is a tech podcast co-hosted by yours truly. Expect a new episode roughly every other week. Episode 2 is all about #RISC-V. Hack the planet!

#EdgeAI #hardware #embedded #Linux #Yocto #systemd #DevOps

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzxp...

28.06.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0