Top all-time · #11832
Terin Stock
Personal blog · terinstock.com/post · on HN as terinjokeshardwareprogrammingsystems
Terin Stock's personal blog at terinstock.com covers hardware, programming and systems. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-26
- Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-27
- Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-28
What Hacker News says?
If you excuse the self-promotion, I started working on this in 2018, that I'm still hacking on. I'm happy to answer any questions people might have. Blog post: https://terinstock.com/post/2018/09/Hardware-MIDI-Player-Par... FOSDEM Talk: https://terinstock.com/talk/2019/02/Building-a-Hardware-MIDI...
Comment linking /talk/2019/02/Building-a-Hardware-MIDI-Player/
on “A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi”Submitted Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE as a story · 194 points
HN discussionA few years ago I wrote[0] about a similar approach on an RTC-less system (a Raspberry 3B+) by utilising systemd's clock-epoch to set time across reboots to be "reasonably close enough" for DNS-over-TLS and chrony's NTS to take over, and avoid large time jumps being observed by daemons. To that last point: reading this file is one of the very first things systemd does after being started right in main, so time is se…
Comment linking /post/2021/12/Systemds-clock-epoch-for-RTC-less-systems/
on “Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC”Submitted When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95 as a story · 101 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pebble and Lego to test ACME with NixOS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE to play Games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A modern, universal, Dreamcast power supply as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HPSS-Disassembly Progress Report (May 2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memfd_create: Temporary In-Memory Files with Go and Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is TiSP Real? Questions behind Google's April Fools jokes as a story · 1 points
HN discussion