Hi. I'm Joshua Wise, and this is my web site. I'm an engineer of varying sorts; most recently, I have been working as an ASIC architect, but also exciting to me is programming language theory, as well as the concepts behind various physical engineering challenges. Periodically I build things that I'm excited to share; one of the things that I'm proudest of is VirtexSquared, a system-on-chip on a Virtex-5. (For more on my work, see the Projects section of my site.) In 2011, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering; originally, I'm from Wayland, Massachusetts. I currently do hardware consulting work as part of Accelerated Tech (more personal thoughts on that!), and previously, I worked as an ASIC architect at NVIDIA Corporation (more exciting information on what's coming next, soon!); I live in Mountain View, CA. And, since October 2015, I hold an RYT 200 accreditation by way of the Bindu Yoga Teacher Training program, and you can find me occasionally teaching at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale.

This site tends towards the more structured (and more static...) side of things, but for some of the other things that I think about and write about a little more spontaneously, you might want to check out my weblog, where I also write a little more personally than I do here. Below, perhaps, you'll find some of what I consider to be the “greatest hits”, sorted roughly in chronological order. I hope you enjoy!

• January, 2018 – Upgrading a BitHead, Part 2: adding a microphone in to a headphones amp.
• 2018, 2017, 2016, ... – Years in review, in terms of music I'd listened to.
• 2017 – Various trip reports from climbing adventures.
• April, 2016 – A discussion of how to make yogurt at home.
• August, 2014 – An article on recovering data from an SD card that I snapped in half.
• November, 2012 – Wrote and open-sourced HoRNDIS, an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X.
• September, 2012 – Published On Solving Hard Problems (over in the words section).
• July, 2011 – Migrated this site to be backed by DokuWiki, and joined the 21st century in using CSS. Readability is probably drastically improved.
• May, 2009 – A post-mortem on a "near-data loss" event.
• May, 2007 – It may not surprise you to hear that in high school, I was about as big of a nerd as I am now, and as such, I wrote a chunk of C as a neat trick in my yearbook blurb. But, of course, in transcribing it, I made an error, so if you came here from that, you should remove the right-parenthesis that is the third to last character, and the first underscore in the third line (“_GMCE...). It should then compile (and execute) properly. (I am still kind of proud of that.)

Of course, if you're looking for anything else, don't hesitate to e-mail me! Thanks for stopping by.

Best regards!
joshua