chendrixson
@chendrixson.bsky.social
MSFT Director in Windows team. Win32, Input, MSIX, Composition, and COM! Likes: electronics, arduino, 3d printing, audible, watches, fortnite, vinyl, concerts, snowboarding, travel, cars, golf and golf sims, physics and economics. Located: Sammamish, WA
Well that’s not right!
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well that’s not right!
Started a new job last week (at CrowdStrike), and spent some time updating my setup now that Mac is my primary work machine. 49” monitor and USB switcher toggles between work machine and personal gaming/video PC, with personal Mac on the side. The vinyl is always spinning…
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Started a new job last week (at CrowdStrike), and spent some time updating my setup now that Mac is my primary work machine. 49” monitor and USB switcher toggles between work machine and personal gaming/video PC, with personal Mac on the side. The vinyl is always spinning…
Great overview of the current state of agentic coding, with lots of tips+tricks.
steipete.me/posts/just-t...
steipete.me/posts/just-t...
Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering | Peter Steinberger
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
steipete.me
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Great overview of the current state of agentic coding, with lots of tips+tricks.
steipete.me/posts/just-t...
steipete.me/posts/just-t...
Jelly Belly brand candy corn is the finest. Pickup a bag or two if you can find it!
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Jelly Belly brand candy corn is the finest. Pickup a bag or two if you can find it!
Reposted by chendrixson
Happening NOW: Eruptive M1.52 flare from the center disk. There looks to be an Earth-directed CME leaving now, although we need time to confirm how much material is actually ejected! Source is AR 4236. More updates soon.
#heliophysics #aurora
#heliophysics #aurora
October 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Happening NOW: Eruptive M1.52 flare from the center disk. There looks to be an Earth-directed CME leaving now, although we need time to confirm how much material is actually ejected! Source is AR 4236. More updates soon.
#heliophysics #aurora
#heliophysics #aurora
Reposted by chendrixson
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
If you were a 90s club kid like me (even if not in NYC), you’ll love the nostalgia and imagery Night People by Mark Ronson evokes. The audiobook narrated by the author is perfect for that late night long drive you were dreading, as it evaporates w/ Hip Hop history.
www.audible.com/pd/B0DTRQPXC...
www.audible.com/pd/B0DTRQPXC...
Night People
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Capturing the music, characters, escapades, and energy of his DJ days, a profound memoir from seven-time Grammy-winning record producer Mark Ronson. Lady Ga...
www.audible.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you were a 90s club kid like me (even if not in NYC), you’ll love the nostalgia and imagery Night People by Mark Ronson evokes. The audiobook narrated by the author is perfect for that late night long drive you were dreading, as it evaporates w/ Hip Hop history.
www.audible.com/pd/B0DTRQPXC...
www.audible.com/pd/B0DTRQPXC...
Lots of interesting stuff in the blog post here!
1.5x Faster MoE Training on Blackwell with MXFP8 Kernels Built from Scratch by cursor
They rewrote the entire MoE layer from scratch at the GPU kernel level with zero dependencies on any CUDA libraries.
cursor.com/blog/kernels
They rewrote the entire MoE layer from scratch at the GPU kernel level with zero dependencies on any CUDA libraries.
cursor.com/blog/kernels
August 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Lots of interesting stuff in the blog post here!
The fairy lights I put in my daughter’s room have a janky remote so I wanted to just hard wire them. They’re in parallel, with every other LED reversed, so I needed a little H bridge and clock to get them going. The best parts are free ones you have lying around! Total overkill of course!
July 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The fairy lights I put in my daughter’s room have a janky remote so I wanted to just hard wire them. They’re in parallel, with every other LED reversed, so I needed a little H bridge and clock to get them going. The best parts are free ones you have lying around! Total overkill of course!
I had an idea for a little word puzzle game, which I vibe coded up in <24 hours and deployed to AWS. Most of my time was spent coming up with puzzles, and tweaking CSS! Give it a whirl and let me know what you think. New puzzles daily!
steps.hendrixson.org
steps.hendrixson.org
Steps - Daily Word Puzzle
Find words that match the theme and discover the final word! A new puzzle every day.
steps.hendrixson.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I had an idea for a little word puzzle game, which I vibe coded up in <24 hours and deployed to AWS. Most of my time was spent coming up with puzzles, and tweaking CSS! Give it a whirl and let me know what you think. New puzzles daily!
steps.hendrixson.org
steps.hendrixson.org
Great overview of the new Vera Rubin observatory.
youtu.be/0aRA5sIkr0g?...
youtu.be/0aRA5sIkr0g?...
This New Telescope Could Save Humanity
YouTube video by AstroKobi
youtu.be
June 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Great overview of the new Vera Rubin observatory.
youtu.be/0aRA5sIkr0g?...
youtu.be/0aRA5sIkr0g?...
Just got a new Dell, and boy are there a lot of background auto-start apps!
June 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just got a new Dell, and boy are there a lot of background auto-start apps!
Wife got a great pic of Bear after her haircut.
May 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wife got a great pic of Bear after her haircut.
You should always test in production.
May 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You should always test in production.
Might be true, but “Songs from the Big Chair” was worth it.
May 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Might be true, but “Songs from the Big Chair” was worth it.
Perfect soda for your GenZ kids!
May 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Perfect soda for your GenZ kids!
Wanted to pickup Billie Eilish tickets this morning. No prob, I have a fan code! Log in ~2 mins after opening (it made me re-TFA for some reason)... "Your queue position is 131,296". Back to stubhub, as usual!
May 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Wanted to pickup Billie Eilish tickets this morning. No prob, I have a fan code! Log in ~2 mins after opening (it made me re-TFA for some reason)... "Your queue position is 131,296". Back to stubhub, as usual!
Spectre, part deux!
comsec.ethz.ch/research/mic...
comsec.ethz.ch/research/mic...
Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions – Computer Security Group
comsec.ethz.ch
May 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Spectre, part deux!
comsec.ethz.ch/research/mic...
comsec.ethz.ch/research/mic...
Guess I got a traffic fine while I was driving in Italy. Thankfully SIXT charged me 39 EUR to forward that letter to me, which took them almost a year, and now I get to pay the full 196 EUR penalty for "driving in a lane designated for certain vehicles". Here's a pic, what did I do wrong?
May 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Guess I got a traffic fine while I was driving in Italy. Thankfully SIXT charged me 39 EUR to forward that letter to me, which took them almost a year, and now I get to pay the full 196 EUR penalty for "driving in a lane designated for certain vehicles". Here's a pic, what did I do wrong?
Guess it's time to log off for the night. I hit a rate limit looking at a bunch of code in GitHub!
May 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Guess it's time to log off for the night. I hit a rate limit looking at a bunch of code in GitHub!
This is just so cool! Full source out on GitHub as well, written in Rust.
martypc.net
martypc.net
MartyPC Web Edition
An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust - Now compiled for the web!
martypc.net
May 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is just so cool! Full source out on GitHub as well, written in Rust.
martypc.net
martypc.net
When I told my wife “can’t wait to see a cool band at the Sphere!”, this is not what I had in mind.
www.ticketmaster.com/backstreet-b...
www.ticketmaster.com/backstreet-b...
www.ticketmaster.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When I told my wife “can’t wait to see a cool band at the Sphere!”, this is not what I had in mind.
www.ticketmaster.com/backstreet-b...
www.ticketmaster.com/backstreet-b...
I've noticed more and more than spell check is getting worse. This one doesn't seem like a hard fix!
May 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I've noticed more and more than spell check is getting worse. This one doesn't seem like a hard fix!
My older brother and I OBSESSED over Adventure. Great to read the history!
www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventu...
www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventu...
Adventure – March 1980, Atari Archive
Of all the original games Atari put out for the VCS, Adventure may be the one that most people are familiar with today.
www.atariarchive.org
May 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My older brother and I OBSESSED over Adventure. Great to read the history!
www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventu...
www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventu...