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Can you guess what this is?

Just a little fragment from an upcoming project, peeking inside the tiny world of modern SoC silicon :)

The video's been in the works for 3 months, and I hope you can learn some things from it, like I have. Thank you for supporting this endeavor, as without your support I would not be able to work with some folks in the industry to get down to the bare die like this... or to probe it with an electron microscope!

MrBeast 1-100 Architecture

Hello dear Patrons, and thank you SO much for supporting my work. In March, Network Chuck roped me into this massive project to help MrBeast's crew build the button and room lighting control system for their Ages 1 - 100 Fight For $500,000 video.

Enjoy this little behind-the-scenes video that supplements my main YouTube video...

Pigeons, travel, and hard drives, oh my!

Today I'm finally uploading a video that took *months* of planning and prep—and I couldn't have done it without you. I hope to do at least one or two large-scale projects like this every year, because it's a nice contrast to the more 'grind'-type videos where I only get to spend a couple weeks researching and testing before writing a script and producing a video.

Today's video is titled "Is a pigeon STILL faster than the Internet?", and I actually tested the theory—end to e...

Back at it for 2023!

Thank you for all your messages, support, and patience! This is a much more positive post than the past few—I am almost fully recovered now, and already feeling better than I have since last June.

And that means I'm finally back to doing activities with my kids (we did an art hike and the zoo last weekend), researching topics for new videos, and I'm back into production mode!

January's always a rough time for views on YouTube, and that plus the pause in production due to surgery...

It's time for surgery! (Thank you)

2022's been a rough year, health-wise. But between your support on Patreon and the support I've received from people on YouTube and GitHub, I have not had to stress so much about finances!

If you haven't seen my latest video—go check it out on YouTube. Basically, I have to have a 're-site' of my stoma due to Crohn's disease complications, and the surgery will be an open surgery, so recovery could be rougher than my past surgeries (in 2013, 2014, and 2018), which were done laparoscopic...

Something I share in common with Mr. Beast...

Unless you read my Twitter bio, or religiously devour my blog posts over the course of many years, you might not know I have Crohn's Disease (something that Mr. Beast contends with too!).

It's been active in my life since my teens, and I have the misfortune of having *severe* Crohn's, meaning I've gone through many different medications, many treatments, and a number of surgeries to try to keep it at bay.

This year I've had some new complications (meaning lots of hospital tests, c...

Approaching the end of 2021

It's been a wild and crazy year, going from 100k subscribers on YouTube to now over 225k, meaning there are more than twice as many people who have an opportunity to watch my new videos right after I post them.

And all year long, I've invested almost all the money I get from Patreon into the videos—behind the scenes, I've completely changed every bit of gear I use to record and edit these videos, like moving from a giant, in-your-face podcast-style mic to an overhead shotgun mic and w...

Just a post of thanks

About a year ago, after a few of my earliest Patrons started supporting my work, I finally determined I could budget working on my books and YouTube channel full-time. And for almost the entire year, that's exactly what I've been doing.

COVID and raising my family (four little kiddos 8 and under!) have definitely taken their share of patience. But being able to do the testing I do, and help inspire some of the projects that I've seen come out in the past year—these are things that are...

Streaming the GeForce GTX 1080 Pi attempt!

I try to do a livestream every now and then to keep my mind sharp. A ton of people have asked me to go into detail as to how I compile the Raspberry Pi kernel, how I test PCI Express cards, and whether it's possible to get any graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi.

Judging by my experience with other GPUs, I don't know if I'll be successful, but I got a 1080 on loan from a good friend down in Texas, and I'm going to get it connected, see if the Pi will recognize it, then see what h...

Kubernetes 101 live series up and running!

In addition to trying to continue on with my Raspberry Pi videos and some other fun project videos on my channel, I finally kicked off the Kubernetes 101 series on YouTube, and there's a website you can check out for all the details, over at https://kube101.jeffgeerling.com

The first two episodes have already had almost 20,000 views, and I hope my free content (generously assisted by sponsor amazee.io in this case!...

Big things are coming!

This year has been... crazy. I started the year with zero sponsors, a few thousand subscribers on my YouTube channel, and around 20,000 readers of my two DevOps books.

At this point, I am slowly nearing 50,000 subscribers on YouTube, I have sold (or given away) over 100,000 copies of my books, and I have over 100 people supporting my work financially on GitHub and Patreon.

It has long been a goal of mine to be able to give more of my work back to the open source community, and to ...

Thanks for helping me make a (small) difference

Earlier this week, I decided to make both my books available free on LeanPub for the rest of the month, to help people level up on some new skills. Your support here on Patreon has helped with this decision, so thank you very much!

I had hoped this would never happen, but I've already seen some friends of friends either get reduced hours or get some contracting gigs...

Prepping for #PiDay 2017!

I've done a lot of work with Raspberry Pis. From the first Pi model A to the latest Zero W, I've owned at least one of each generation and form factor of the Raspberry Pis.

I just finished shooting some test time-lapse footage using a Pi Zero W, a USB power bank, and the Pi Camera, and am working on a longer blog post talking about the setup and the software I use to control it.

I'll hopefully have time to finish some more of my Raspberry Pi Dramble series (2017-03-13 04:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Just getting started

Special thanks to Oskar Schöldström for the inspiration to set up a Patreon profile. I spend around $1000/year on hosting for my various open source projects (Drupal VM and associated project hosting, Packer/Vagrant box hosting, Raspberry Pi testing infrastructure, private repo GitHub account, etc.), and I also purchase items here and there to improve the production quality for screencasts and the like.

Hopefully I'll get a couple bucks through Patreon to help shoulder this load... and if I ...