The best resources I've found: 1. Amazing intro video by ex-NASA YouTuber Mark Rober: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi29dbPnu28 2. To fundamentally understand what Arduino and similar microcontroller platforms (e.g., ESP32) are, what the major components of a common Arduino board (e.g., Arduino Uno)

1. Learn everything 2. Acquire every skill 3. Make money by using the above knowledge and skills to make the world better 4. Use said money to hire people to build new things that make the world dramatically better 5. Invent entirely new industries that make the world better still

1. Brilliant Labs's Frame: https://brilliant.xyz/products/frame 2. Team Open Smartglasses: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ZY760EIUc4 3. Voidstar Lab (not a product but maybe I should build these they're so dope): https://youtube.com/watch?v=50614QMNQPo

The midwit meme's structure can capture many, many, many fallacies humans commit. I'll post my favs below. Source

I consume a lot of information. Sometimes people ask me how I've come to know what I know about political ideologies and many issues that crop up in the news. Below you can find links to various high-quality, honest information sources that I highly recommend, with most people

Humanity needs the future of software to have the following two properties: 1. Security 2. Simplicity Rust makes software much more secure, and significantly less simple. Security Security-wise, replacing all the world's C and C++ with Rust is A Big Deal, especially with AI-powered superhackers on the horizon

Today, almost everyone who thinks they know what WebAssembly is is wrong. WebAssembly is not a toy that runs in the browser to sometimes make your JavaScript go faster, no. WebAssembly is the technology that is about to achieve something unprecedented in the history of software: we are on the

Pony (https://www.ponylang.io)'s design goals are commendable, but its author does not sufficiently care about simplicity, or does not know how to achieve it. Example line from https://tutorial.ponylang.io/generics.html -- Here's the equivalent line in V (https://vlang.io/), which

I just did a quick semi-deep dive into learning assembly! Why? Because revolutionizing computer programming (https://revolutionize.dev/) is a high priority for me, and I no longer trust the wobbling tower of poorly-designed abstractions that modern computing is built upon. Will revolutionizing programming require the replacement of the most

Open source pioneer Bruce Perens has written a close-minded, condescending, fallacy-laden blog post (https://perens.com/2019/09/23/sorry-ms-ehmke-the-hippocratic-license-cant-work/) defending something that is not even under attack, namely the definition of open source license he originally penned over 20 years ago. Why is this worth mentioning, you ask? A

Slides: https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/cryptoparty-nb-aug2019/ Virtual handout of recommended privacy tools: https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/tools.pdf

Policies that I believe would make the US a dramatically better place: Tax some substantial fraction (~20%?) of the money companies save outsourcing jobs and use that money to retrain the workers who were laid off We truly can have an economy with all winners and no losers, even as

TL;DR: Wire doesn't make you use your phone number as your identifier, which is huge IMO. But Signal has the best security track record and doesn't store your contacts on its servers, unlike Wire. Somewhat longer version: Signal Pros 1. Best security track record of

Since some people have recently asked, the supplements I recommend to everyone (at least give them a try!) and that I take every day are: - Lecithin - Phosphatidylcholine (https://smile.amazon.com/Country-Life-Phosphatidyl-Choline-Softgels/dp/B000168GEK/) - This brand actually includes lecithin already - Vitamin B-complex (https://smile.amazon.com/

Here are some techniques for discovering your values: 1. Ask yourself (and write your answer) -- who are the greatest people who have ever lived, and why? 2. What are the most awesome projects/companies/nonprofits that you have ever heard of? Think about what it is about them that

Dear Frode and company, What am I working on? I am building Effective.af (https://effective.af/) (code (https://github.com/EffectiveAF/effective)): secure task management software with a bevy of unique features, designed to enable large numbers of participants and projects to join forces -- especially activists trying to

I consider the following statements and achievements awe-inspiring, and I hope you do, too! Voyager In 1977, Jimmy Carter wrote the following statement, which hitched a ride into outer space with the Voyager space probe: SpaceX To make space accessible to the human race, we must make rocket launches much

Scaleway's servers are half the price of DigitalOcean's... but is it worth it? Let's find out. DigitalOcean's 2GB RAM instances ($5/month): Scaleway's 2GB RAM instances (~$2.20/month):

Here is a super-fast way to get started with Checkup (https://github.com/sourcegraph/checkup), which provides "[d]istributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages". Checkup is pretty great, but has poor documentation re: getting started, at least as of November 2018. If you follow this tutorial

On 2018.11.15 I gave a talk at Noisebridge's 5 Minutes of Fame (5MoF)! Here are my slides: https://r1it4g6we08inkj4ynop.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html?transition=none#/

My slides: https://zgv2t96qauu2agbgexs6.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html?transition=none#/ I will post the video when it's up!

Here's a rather extensive AMA/Q&A session I did for the CodeBuddies.org community last year, in which I go quite deep: https://medium.com/codebuddies/ama-with-steve-phillips-lead-developer-and-project-manager-of-the-pursuance-project-b78d6b8ba414

How to contact me, and where to find me online: * GitHub: github.com/elimisteve * Keybase: keybase.io/elimisteve * LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sdphillips * Twitter: @elimisteve * Email: steve@tryingtobeawesome.com * PGP key * $ curl https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/steve.pub | gpg --import * ...or * $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0x7295C51C3F8AA1E2 * ...or, in

Here they are! https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/slides/pursuance-c4sf/index.html?transition=none#/

In January 2018 I gave a talk at RIOTcon about -- you guessed it -- Pursuance (https://pursuanceproject.org/). Here are my slides. (https://sqgckgruqp5dplkoyq7b.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html?transition=none#/)