Mike J mikejfromva

A retrospective on building control software for Jefferson Lab’s 12 GeV CEBAF particle accelerator — the design of the Insertables System, debugging hardware by listening for actuator sounds at the beamline, and missing the ICALEPCS conference due to the federal government shutdown.

An introduction to the blog and its author — a software engineer with thirty years of experience across Jefferson Lab, Sun Microsystems, Amazon, and GEICO, writing about programming languages, cryptography, general computing, and computer architecture.