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engineering
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Low Pass Filter Design: Setting the Cut-off with Two Components
Plug an oscilloscope probe into almost any real circuit and the trace will be fuzzy. Riding on top…
Buck Converter Ripple: Sizing the Inductor and Capacitor With Confidence
A buck converter takes a higher DC voltage and steps it down efficiently by switching a transistor on…
PID Tuning That Actually Converges: Ziegler-Nichols and the Root Locus View
The PID controller is the workhorse of industrial control. It runs temperature loops, motor drives, flow valves, and…
Your Scrum Isn’t Scrum. The Scrum Guide Is 13 Pages. Your Process Has 300.
Originally published at theendofcoding.com. The article on the canonical site has the full inline images, an interactive subscribe…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #3 — A Structural Model of People
Ability lives inside, so it can’t be seen. Contribution to structure remains outside, so it can be seen.…
I Built a Free Browser-Based Digital Logic Simulator for Learning Boolean Algebra
Boolean algebra and digital logic are much easier to understand when you can build and test circuits visually.…
How to Choose a Great Tech Hire: Beyond Algorithm Tests and Whiteboard Coding
I’ve seen too many hiring processes that focus on the wrong things. Teams spend hours on algorithm puzzles…
whoami: > 0xW3ston
Hi, I’m Youssef, also known as “0xW3ston” — a backend-focused engineer from Nador, Morocco. When I was a…
Introducing Accord: A Better Way to Make Technical Decisions
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Accord, a platform designed to transform how engineering teams make and…
The First 30 Days: A short primer for engineering leaders joining a new org
Over my 2 years as Dictionary.com’s senior-most technologist—having inherited an entirely remote and geographically distributed team for the…
