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Milk, I2C, and SMBus

Last week, a friend of mine gave me an interesting single-board computer with the goal of getting it to communicate with another chip he was working with over I2C. The SBC is quite small. It has 2 RISC-V cores, an ARM core, and a whopping 512 megabytes of RAM…

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Technoir: Reflecting on Five Years

Five years. Five whole years. So many things have changed since I first started this blog. I was still in my second year of university, no one could have even imagined that COVID-19 would happen, the GDPR had just been freshly implemented, and we were all looking forward to the end of the 2010s as we were approaching a new decade. Don’t we all j...

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Back to Basics: Why do we return 0?

There is a very high chance that if you read my blog, you’ve seen the line of code return 0; at some point. Specifically, you’ve probably seen it in a main() function, like so: int main() { //Do stuff return 0; } Why, though? Can I return something that isn’t zero? The simple answer is yes. main() is, after all, a function and can return w...

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Labelling: A Pandemic of Our Generation

A while back I read about something called the “labelling theory”. The labelling theory suggests that an individual’s identity and behaviour may be determined by the terms that are used to describe them by others (i.e. labelling). This theory, for example, states that if you keep calling someone a criminal, they will eventually become an actual ...

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