Joe Landman

Joe Landman

OG High Performance Computing (HPC) veteran. Non-practicing physicist, Ph.D in condensed matter theory. Closet mathematician, aspiring astrophotographer. Hubby, Father, Son, Uncle. Human.

A rubicon has been crossed

I have submitted, after editing/formatting/reviewing, my first SciFi short story for consideration of publication.  The next (about) 180 days of waiting for the response, be it negative (19/20 odds) or

Tooling/stack matters

As I continue to explore the landscape of options for my next job, I've been having conversations with many people about their needs/wants/think-they-need issues.  What is curious to me

Technical debt

Waaaay back in graduate school towards the end of my research first days, my father sent me a copy of "The Unix Haters Handbook".  It was a mostly humorous compilation of

@HPCpodcast talking about Linux wars

I joined Shahin Khan of OrionX and Doug Black of InsideHPC to talk about the kerfuffle around Red Hat/IBM's decision to close off access to sources (behind a paywall with

Pain is a powerful teacher

I have spinal stenosis.  Which resulted in a sciatica like pain down my left leg.  It got bad enough that I could no longer walk appreciable distances without significant pain meds, and rest.