Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling

Welcome Jeff Geerling of the Jeff Geerling YouTube Channel!

• Jeff sounds so calm one his videos because he records after the kids are in bed
• He started working with dad at the radio station when there was a transition in radio to digital / online. Jeff had an early job as a technology explainer while making manuals at the station.
• Jeff still makes videos with his Dad on the Geerling engineering channel
• Ham radio vs broadcast
• 1 Million Watts on the Supertower
• Calling the FCC
• CamOX facility
• Keeping people interested during videos
• Mars 400
• RPi clusters
• It's a good exercise because it helps those building it understanding the limitation of spreading across computers
• Drupal website on cluster
• "The constraint gives me the story"
• A good starter project? Maybe the project pi cluster
• /r/homelab
• NAS, monitoring, VPN, pidramble
• Home Assistant
• ESPhome
• yaml files: better than xml, JSON is better
• Devices should only be added to the house if they are: Local, additive, private
• X10
• Smart stuff in the house
• Interested in the embedded side
• LLM
• Jeff became Chris's de facto Pi5 analyst
• RP1 episode
• PCIexpress
• Jeff discusses RISC V