Field notes on industrial systems, SCADA & embedded software

Trail Operations was first globally to achieve Zinc Mark verification — here’s why that matters for automation, telemetry, and IT/OT partners.

Large smelters publish environmental performance — enclosures, road cleaning, monitoring. The through-line is instrumentation, trending, and operational follow-through.

Teck documents Upper Columbia work and aquatic monitoring — a case study in long-horizon stewardship and transparent technical programs.

Teck highlights hydroelectric supply to Trail operations — a nod to how energy and process stability intersect for large loads.

Porting Chromium’s content shell to QNX for BB10 demonstrates what it takes to run a contemporary rendering engine on a 32-bit ARM Neutrino target — Clang/LLD, massive patches, and a roadmap toward Ozone and windowed UI.

A full Node.js 22 port with OpenSSL 3, libuv, and npm — including documented JIT/alignment trade-offs and a practical --jitless path for stable workloads on BB10.

BerryCore modernizes the open lineage begun by Berry Much OS — updated binaries, clearer environment tooling, and a path toward current compilers and scripting on BB10-class QNX devices.

BlackBerry 10’s 32-bit ARM QNX stack is a study in contrast with commodity mobile OSes: fewer moving parts, smaller working sets, and scheduling paths that can yield lower jitter for experimentation and edge prototypes.