Author Archives: Michael Richmond
stealth startup ⥤ StackStorm
A couple of months ago I left my position at SanDisk to join a hush-hush stealth startup. The experience has alternated between feeling weird, and the most normal thing in the world. Weird when friends and former colleagues ask what … Continue reading
Bridging ExpressCard to PCIe for LTO
In the mid-1990’s I worked as a photoshop jockey for the Sydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax Media newspapers. At that time we would regularly send a photographer into the field with a large Pelican case that held a digital … Continue reading
Atari 2600 hardware mod
This week, much of the gaming world focused the release of GTA V from Rockstar Games. I found some spare time to get an old Atari system cleaned up and working by installing an atari 2600 composite output mod. After … Continue reading
Changing the size of an image in Photoshop CS6
How to scale the size of an image Continue reading
And the Emmy goes to… LTFS
OMFG! My project won an Emmy! The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of the 63rd Primetime Emmy® Engineering Awards. This year, one of four Engineering Emmys will be awarded one of which goes to IBM … Continue reading
joining Nimbula
After popping the IBM stack frame off my call stack the next step is to push a new Nimbula frame onto the stack. Today is the end of my first week working at a startup and, as expected, the experience … Continue reading
leaving IBM
Today was my last day at IBM Almaden. I’ve been walking into the same building 5 days a week for about 9 years now. It’ll be weird to not do the same next week. In my time here, I have … Continue reading
LTFS Format Specification and Open-Source
In an earlier post I mentioned that prior to the introduction of LTFS an application typically relied on proprietary APIs to read and write data tape. These proprietary APIs typically have used proprietary data formats on the tape media. These … Continue reading