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Edge AI in the Next 10 Years: The Long Horizon
Where edge AI heads by 2035: AI-native 6G networks, neuromorphic silicon, the EU AI Act, and a ten-year roadmap for embedded Linux…
RB Jul 3 · 10 min
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How to Switch to Embedded Linux from Application Development
A practical plan for working software engineers to switch to embedded Linux: what transfers, the skills employers list, and a six-month roadmap.
RB Jul 3 · 12 min
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Edge AI in the Next 10 Years: The Stack and the Fleet
The embedded Linux stack for edge AI — Yocto, runtimes, secure OTA — and federated learning with Flower to improve models across…
RB Jul 2 · 10 min
InsightsInsights
The Cyber Resilience Act Turns Security Into a Core Embedded Linux Skill
The EU Cyber Resilience Act starts applying from September 2026. What it means for embedded Linux engineers: SBOMs, kernel CVEs, and update…
RB Jul 2 · 10 min
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Edge AI in the Next 10 Years: The Silicon Shift
Edge AI in 2026: where the market and silicon stand — NPUs and TOPS tiers, quantization, and the power spectrum, for embedded…
RB Jul 1 · 10 min
Deep DivesDeep Dives
Real-Time Linux vs RTOS: Zephyr, FreeRTOS, PREEMPT_RT
Real-time Linux vs RTOS, compared: FreeRTOS, Zephyr, and mainline PREEMPT_RT, and how mixed-criticality designs run Linux and an RTOS on one SoC.
RB Jul 1 · 15 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Getting Your First Role
Campus placement stalled? Here are four realistic routes to your first tech job: open-source contribution, internships, smaller companies, and GCCs.
RB Jun 30 · 8 min
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Control GPIO with libgpiod: Tools and the API
Control GPIO with libgpiod using the version 2 tools and C API. Hands-on examples with gpioget, gpioset, gpiomon, and a virtual gpio-mockup…
RB Jun 30 · 12 min
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Kernel & Embedded News: EU CRA Reporting Nears; RVA23 Baseline Set
A practitioner digest for embedded Linux teams: the EU Cyber Resilience Act's reporting duties starting 11 September 2026, RISC-V consolidating its ratified…
RB Jun 30 · 7 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Inside the Domains
A practical look at six durable tech domains for graduates after college: the entry skills, first tools, and one starter project for…
RB Jun 29 · 8 min
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Debug Story: A Hung Task That Froze an Embedded Board
A debug story from an embedded Linux board: a hung task froze the system. How khungtaskd reports it, reading the blocked-task stack,…
RB Jun 29 · 10 min
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More Information Has Never Automatically Meant More Wisdom
T. S. Eliot asked where the wisdom we lost in knowledge has gone. In the AI age, when information is free, the…
RB Jun 28 · 5 min
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Kernel & Embedded News: Yocto 6.0 LTS; AI Patches Strain Review
A practitioner digest of the Linux 7.1/7.2 cycle and the new Yocto 6.0 Wrynose LTS for embedded teams: broader SoC support, exFAT…
RB Jun 28 · 9 min
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Real-Time Linux with PREEMPT_RT — Part 2: Building a PREEMPT_RT Kernel and Comparing Latency
Build a PREEMPT_RT kernel from mainline 6.12 source, boot it, and re-run cyclictest to compare real-time latency against a standard kernel baseline.
RB Jun 28 · 9 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Useful From Day One
The fresher bar has moved from trainable to useful from day one. What that means now, how it differs across durable tech…
RB Jun 27 · 9 min
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