Tech & Automation
Tutorials, engineering notes and industry insight, from Git to PLCs.
Google Podcasts Shutdown: What You Need to Know
Google Podcasts shut down in 2024. Key dates, how to move your subscriptions to YouTube Music or another app, and what it means for listeners.
Ionic vs Flutter vs React Native: A Comprehensive Comparison
In the rapidly evolving world of mobile app development, choosing the right framework can make a significant difference in the success of your project.
From PLC to IIoT: Bridging OT Data
The most valuable data in a factory is generated every second and almost none of it ever leaves the room. Bridging OT to IIoT is the unglamorous engineering that finally lets it out - safely.
Functional Safety in Automation (IEC 61508/62061)
Functional safety is not a checkbox on a wiring diagram - it is a quantitative argument that the protective layer you are betting lives on will actually act when called.
Edge Computing for Smart Manufacturing
The factory cloud dream hit a wall of latency, bandwidth and broken WAN links. The answer was to move the compute back to the machines.
Overview of Unix Commands for C Development
Useful Unix commands for C projects: converting spaces to tabs, fixing DOS line endings, enforcing code style and compiling and debugging.
Basic Unix Commands | 02x00.06-01
To navigate through the file system in Unix, you use the cd (change directory) command. Here are some examples:
Exploring the World of No-Code Tools: Empowering Creativity Without Coding
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, the emergence of no-code tools has revolutionized how individuals and businesses bring their ideas to life.
Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) for Production
3D printing stopped being a prototyping toy years ago. Here is how to tell when it is the right way to make a real production part - and when it absolutely is not.
FullStack Development in 50 Days: Roadmap & Resources
FullStack Development is a dynamic realm of software engineering that encompasses both backend (server) and frontend (client) development.
Crafting Effective Research Questions: A Guide from The Writing Center
Are you struggling to formulate a research question that will guide your academic inquiry effectively?
Understanding and Crafting Effective Hypotheses in Research
So, you've honed in on your research question, delved into the depths of literature, and are poised to embark on your study.
Augmented Reality on the Factory Floor
Industrial augmented reality is not about flashy holograms - it is the last meter of the connected factory, delivering the right information to the worker's hands.
Introduction to Source Code Management with Git and GitHub | 02x00.04-01
Source Code Management (SCM) is the practice of tracking and managing changes to code throughout its lifecycle.
Working with APIs & Integrations
Anyone can make an API call that works once. Building an integration that keeps working is a different discipline - and it's the one that pays the bills.
Navigating the Research Methodology Maze: A Comprehensive Guide
A practical research methodology guide: define objectives, choose outputs, scope sources, gather information, evaluate credibility and synthesize findings.
Python for Automation
You do not need to be a programmer to make your computer do your busywork. You need one small script, and the willingness to write the next one.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: When Ignorance Breeds Confidence
The Dunning-Kruger effect explained: why people with low skill overestimate themselves, experts underestimate themselves and what it means for learning.
Databases & SQL for Developers
The database is the part of your stack that outlives everything else. Here is how to treat it that way.
Running Client Workshops
Why the consultants clients ask for by name are the ones who can run a room — and how facilitation, not expertise, is the skill that compounds.
The Independent Tech Consultant's Playbook
New consultants reach for the easiest number they know - their old salary divided by the hours in a year. Here is why that math quietly bankrupts you, and what to calculate instead.
Web Performance & CDNs
Performance is a feature, not a finish line. Here is how to think about speed across the whole stack, from the first byte to the nearest edge.
SSL/TLS & Web Security Basics
The padlock is not a trophy. It is a promise about exactly three things, and understanding what it does and does not cover is the difference between a site that is secure and one that merely looks it.
Endpoint Management & Imaging
How endpoint management quietly evolved from copying disk images to orchestrating fleets from the cloud - and why the old skills still matter.