18 January 2021
I was recently in Chicago and decided to field test the recent 5G deployments available there. The three major carriers in the United States (AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon) technically have all deployed some form of 5G by now (Jan 2021), but there are large variances among them.
01 January 2021
I recently finished up my Masters in Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. As part of the graduation requirements, candidates are expected to work on a design or research project in an area of their choosing. My project, entitled “5G Deployment in the United States: Considerations, Challenges, and Concerns with a Focus on End-User Experience,” dealt with the practicalities and expectations of 5G deployments across America. I’ll be summarizing some of my research in this post and a few more posts to come
24 December 2020
I recently had to fly cross-country after moving out of my school apartment, and I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to test the AirPods Max in their native habitat (at least pre-pandemic). For most frequent travelers, the appeal of active noise cancelling headphones is centrally to drown out the droning jet engines and to help the associated fatigue. In a pandemic era, most people are flying less, and of course may not need such features for an airplane specifically. But if you’re about to drop $550 on a new pair of AirPods Max, you’d probably like to know how they fare when everyone does start to resume travel.
20 November 2020
On November 10, 2020, Apple introduced it’s first effort to bring it’s own in-house system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs to it’s Mac lineup of computers. The intention to move to it’s own designs, first announced in June 2020, marks Apple’s transition away from Intel-based processor designs, and towards an in-house approach to vertically integrate Apple’s own processor designs into its computers. What does all of this mean? What did we have before, and why is this new design better?
10 November 2020
I wrote before about not flying as much as I’d hoped throughout college. I always imagined that I’d be able to go to cool places with friends every weekend, easily exhausting the classic $100 hamburger places in and around Upstate NY. Unfortunately, that never really materialized, and I found myself always wishing to be in the air when studying for exams, doing course projects, or caught in job interviews. Alas there’s not enough time for everything in life, but now here we are in my last semester at Cornell, and I still don’t have time—it was silly to believe that I would just be able to have a free day magically.
03 October 2020
The summer/fall update post about the state of the homelab is coming up soon, but I’m already well into the fall season and I wanted to share an initial post on some thoughts about open-source network operating systems, particularly for network switches.