{"id":7159,"date":"2016-04-27T07:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2016-04-27T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:12:03","slug":"where-your-donations-go-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7159","title":{"rendered":"Where your donations go (#1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because people do in fact drop money in my PayPal and Patreon accounts, I think a a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that I occasionally update everyone on where the money goes.  First in an occasional series,<\/p>\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been buying Raspberry Pi GPS HATs (daughterboards with a GPS and real-time clock) to go with the Raspberry PI 3 Dave Taht dropped on me.  Yesterday morning a thing called an Uputronics GPS Extension Board arrived from England. A few hours ago I ordered a cheap Chinese thing obviously intended to compete with the Adafruit GPS HAT I bought last week.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that I&#8217;m working up a <em>very<\/em> comprehensive HOWTO on how to build a Stratum 1 timeserver in a box.  Not content to merely build one, I&#8217;m writing a sheaf of recipes that includes all three HATs I&#8217;ve found and (at least) two revisions of the Pi.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this HOWTO different from various build pages on this topic scattered around the Web?  In general, the ones I&#8217;ve found are well-intended but poorly written.  They make too many assumptions, they&#8217;re tied to very specific hardware types, they skip &#8220;obvious&#8221; steps, they leave out diagnostic details about how to tell things are going right and what to do when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to write a HOWTO that can be used by people who are not Linux and NTP experts &#8211; basically, my audience is anyone who could walk into a hackerspace and not feel utterly lost.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my hope is that by not being tightly tied to one parts list this HOWTO will help people develop more of a generative understanding of how you <em>compose<\/em> a build recipe, and develop their own variations.<\/p>\n<p>I cover everything, clear down to how to buy a case that will fit a HAT. And this work has already had some functional improvements to GPSD as a side effect.<\/p>\n<p>I expect it might produce some improvements in NTPsec as well &#8211; our program manager, A&#038;D regular Mark Atwood, has been smiling benignly on this project. Mark&#8217;s plan is to broadcast this thing to a hundred hackerspaces and recruit the next generation of time-service experts that way.<\/p>\n<p>Three drafts have already circulated to topic experts.  Progress will be interrupted for a bit while I&#8217;m off at Penguicon, but 1.0 is likely to ship within two weeks or so.<\/p>\n<p>And it will ship with the recipe variations <em>tested<\/em>.  Because that&#8217;s what I do with your donations.  If this post stimulates a few more, I&#8217;ll add an Odroid C2 (Raspberry Pi workalike with beefier hardware) to the coverage; call it a stretch goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because people do in fact drop money in my PayPal and Patreon accounts, I think a a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that I occasionally update everyone on where the money goes. First in an occasional series, Recently I&#8217;ve been buying Raspberry Pi GPS HATs (daughterboards with a GPS and real-time clock)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7159\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where your donations go (#1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-famous-guy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}