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bobowzki

1,145 karma · joined November 1, 2011

https://sm6wjm.se

I'm a 40 year old anesthesiologist with a passion for technology and software development. Particularly in the health care field. I've developed several popular iOS apps, Android App and webapps as well as various hardware hacks.

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bobowzki··on The Curse of Soldered RAM
Well that was good to learn!
bobowzki··on Most people prefer traditional architecture
What is traditional now was once modern.
bobowzki··on ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click
My first thought too.
bobowzki··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Is 2027 the year of the Linux desktop?
bobowzki··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
I think these are very common in Sweden? Pretty much every type I diabetic I've met here have a sensor and insulin pump.

Is this a different type of sensor?

bobowzki··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Very impressive! I also highly recommend visiting Herculaneum.

A thought: I guess the days of scratch off lottery tickets are numbered?

bobowzki··on VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
Fun! I just put together my own phone exchange at home using Asterisk. It can be challenging to configure but LLMs can help a lot with this in my experience.

https://github.com/ast/wjmasterisk

bobowzki··on British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
How about testing people in a driving simulator?
bobowzki··on Tux Paint
I use this with my daughter who is 4.5 and she loves it!
bobowzki··on Ask HN: How did you learn to code?
My father had a an old HP Vectra 286. Somehow I found the 5.25 floppies with QBasic 4.5 and the manuals and just started experimenting with it. I must have been around 11-12 years old. When I was 14 and doing work experience in system administrator I got a Free sad CD. That started my Unix journey.
bobowzki··on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
I host my companys website on Cloudflare pages using Cloudflare's DNS. I don't want to move to 100% self hosting but I would like to have self hosted backup. Has anyone solved this?
bobowzki··on Linux Kernel Explorer
This is very nice. It would be interesting to see the same for other code bases like emacs and vim.
bobowzki··on Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Alone. By Stand-Up-Paddleboard
Seems like a really inefficient way to paddle?
bobowzki··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
What do you recommend instead?
bobowzki··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Rust based software defined radio application
bobowzki··on The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
The thing I find most interesting about ML in radiology is that a computer can observe the entire dynamic range of the sensor at once. A human will only look at a window or a compressed window.
bobowzki··on In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use
Always nice to see another anesthesiologist on hackernews, we're quite a few it seems. I have done research in this area and also worked a bit with Emery. Which/what brand EEG monitor do you use?
bobowzki··on Excitable cells
Title reminded me of Tubular bells.
bobowzki··on QRP Labs QMX SSB beta firmware relased
Very nice to see this on the front page!
bobowzki··on I Blog with Raw HTML
This is the comment I came here for.
bobowzki··on Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
You can work until 70 as an anesthesiologist where I live.

I don't know. The quality of life is not good in medicine.

I have dreams of starting a successful company.

bobowzki··on I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
Ycomrade
bobowzki··on Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
I'm anesthesiologist but now I work full time as senior software engineer at a radar company. I wanted to get into medtech (still want to) but this works well with the family. Work life balance was the main reason I took this path. I also wanted more intellectually challenging work.
bobowzki··on AI in Radiology: Is It Being Adopted?
Interesting business idea. I would get a more professional looking email.
bobowzki··on AI in Radiology: Is It Being Adopted?
I think AI has a bright future in radiology for the simple reason that it will be able to take the full dynamic range of each pixel/voxel into account.
bobowzki··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)
Location: Göteborg, Sweden

Remote: both

Willing to relocate: maybe

Resumé: Anesthesiologist and senior software engineer. C/C++/embedded/SDR/radar/networking/Linux/threadx

https://sm6wjm.se

Email: albin@sm6wjm.se

bobowzki··on Ed Stone, scientist and salesman for the Voyager mission, has died
What's the 2003 platform?
bobowzki··on Ed Stone, scientist and salesman for the Voyager mission, has died
I'm still looking for a place to watch that documentary from Sweden. It doesn't seem to be available on any platform.
bobowzki··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
I had already contributed to some open source projects and had also done some fairly large freelance projects. I'm sure this made me more hireable.

I'm not sure I will give up anesthesiology 100%, in the end I'd like to combine and work on "medtech". Currently I work with automotive radar.

Feel free to reach out!

bobowzki··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
I'm an anesthesiologist. Two years ago I switched to doing 100% software engineering. I had already worked in software, but not full time. There were many reasons. More time with my family was a big one. Work not being intellectually challenging was a another.
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