A hobbyist's log of hard low-level projects: reverse engineering a proprietary Rockchip DDR initialization binary to enable an open-source boot stack, and building a from-scratch UEFI hobby OS (Bastion) for x86_64 and AArch64. Readers get candid step-by-step accounts of debugging, design choices and the mistakes made along the way.
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A hands-on technical blog series about porting OpenWrt to the AT&T BGW320-500 fibre gateway, covering Ethernet offload, tri-band Wi-Fi bring-up and the 10G XGS-PON SFP+ cage. Readers get detailed, step-by-step reverse engineering notes on Broadcom drivers, module load order and PON protocols.
A researcher-founder writes long-form explainers on computing history and robotics, unpacking topics like RL locomotion of humanoid robots, the ENIAC and EDVAC programming paradigms, and low-power on-chip state estimation. Readers get technically grounded, well-illustrated explanations with quantitative comparisons and historical context.
A Japanese developer's personal blog covering self-hosted blog migration to static generation for security reasons, development of SabiRuby (a Rust-based mruby-compatible VM) with background on a mruby bytecode book, and a RubyKaigi 2026 talk about PicoRuby multi-VM OS running on custom hardware. Readers get hands-on engineering write-ups with candid notes on process, tooling and setbacks.
Research updates from a cambridge engineering lab on physical and thermodynamic computing, presenting paper abstracts on topics such as analog matrix inversion, sensor uncertainty quantification and particle filtering. Readers get technical summaries of new academic work with benchmark results and citation details.
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