Neil Gruending

A electronics design engineer specializing in automotive products. I also write embedded software.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

https://t.co/BwpF1bXhIr

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@HedgieMarkets Modern tire pressure systems resolve this issue.

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@randomrecruiter Confirmed. Specialized skills are definitely a multiplier.

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@devbisme Yes I have visions of "The Office" and "Young and the Restless" mixed together

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I would love to know the backstory on this lead embedded software job description with all the references to honesty, politics and loyalty

https://t.co/q6u1A8sA4M

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@furan @randomrecruiter Poor working on my part maybe? I was trying to say that even someone was a brilliant match for the role, their resume and application may be selling them short.

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For the first time in my career I have to recruit and hire a team. PLEASE follow @randomrecruiter and other recruiters for some potentially career changing advice.

I'm rejecting a lot of brilliant people simply because I can't decipher their resume and we're in the same field

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@randomrecruiter Embedded software engineers. I'm not directly responsible for the recruiting though thank goodness, that's far outside of my skillset.

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Just cancelled my @45Drives homelab order because of too many issues trying to place the order in the first place. Worst online experience I've had in a very long time.

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@SergiiKirianov Talk to me in 6 months :)

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@thekitze Check your POE source and the switch they are connected to. Most likely this is a failing POE power supply.

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New debugger time!

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Weirdest Cortex M0+ debug challenge ever... It was possible to flash and run code, but the CPU peripherals couldn't control the physical pins even though the registers were functioning. Guesses?

It was the debug probe.

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Why do tech companies think that layoffs by email is humane? Or its new version "If you receive a meeting request tomorrow morning..."?

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Workplace experiment:

After 2 quarters of low performance review scores, I dramatically reduced the unseen work I was doing (extra hours, mentoring, fire fighting, etc).

Next review was a marked improvement even though my overall throughput was *lower*.

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Very nice packaging @thedigirig

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Code reviews where I have to grep the branch because I know you are doing something funny is actually not fun

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I do a lot of code reviews and sometimes they teach you something cool. Today's example: anonymous unions and structures

[Kelly Vaughn @kvlly]

Damn, ChatGPT

[Neil Gruending @ngruending]

@9600 The knobs and buttons on very high end pro audio systems (like huge concerts) are just UX for common things while detailed configuration/adjustment is done with screens and menus