Learning Scala
If you’ve ever experienced the phenomenon where you pick up a new word and then noticed it used everywhere, I’m getting that sensation now, noticing Scala in places I hadn’t…
Tech-topia versus Doom-agedon
“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future” – Neils Bohr, Yogi Berra, and many others The future isn’t what it used to be. In more optimistic times, futuristic visions predicted…
EDA, past and future
Twenty years ago today, I drove down from Illinois to Austin to start working at Motorola SPS in their design technology group. It was the start of a near twenty-year…
A Solution to the Debt Ceiling Non-Crisis
Our nation is facing a crisis. If you want to understand the nature of our fiscal crisis, consider: We increased Federal spending by over $1 trillion, from 2007 to 2011,…
The Future of the Mobile Internet is ARMdroid
With a user base exceeding 4 billion globally, the cellphone is the most widely adopted new technology in history. There are more mobile phones than TVs, more cellphones than landline…
A New Beginning
patmcguinness.org is the personal website for Patrick McGuinness – husband, father, engineer and EDA professional, Austinite, investor, polymath, conservative, and techie. This website, patmcguinness.org, was previously my campaign website as…