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Bjørn Borud
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Bjørn Borud's personal blog at borud.no covers programming and hardware. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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The GSM standard was an international effort. But as far as I know, the first GSM radio was built here in Trondheim, Norway. In fact, I know where this radio is right now, because I've seen it :-). I was at the local university (NTNU) where the lab dungeon keeper occasionally will test and refurbish old surplus lab equipment and then sell it. I was there to pick up a few power supplies and we started talking. Eventu…
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on “Norsk Data”Submitted Writing New System Software as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSo how do you usually install ESP-IDF to ensure smooth sailing? I usually follow a (somewhat more terse) version of the instructions that the Espressif team have on their site. I put that in my blog a while back: https://borud.no/dev/2022/esp-idf-setup/ . How should I modify this procedure to help avoid breakages in the future? UPDATE: interestingly, I decided to check out and re-build an ESP-IDF project I haven't b…
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on “Please do not use Python for tooling”Submitted Go Annoyances as a story · 31 points
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