As most embedded developers I'm addled by a disease: code vertigo. I like my code flush to the earth, where I can take an ear to the ground and hear the fuzzy rumble of electrons and the crackle of dodgy solder joints. When code at that level collapses it... (more…)

This is a request to restore the base64::encode and base64::decode convenience functions deprecated in the 0.21.0 release. Normally I agree with explicit being better than implicit, but I don't... (more…)

Credstash is a cli utility for managing credentials securely in AWS cloud. It uses a combination of AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and DynamoDB to achieve it. One of my co-worker has written a more detailed tutorial here. The original tool was written b... (more…)

Years ago, Andrew Kennedy published a foundational paper about a type checker for units of measure, and later implemented it for F#. To this day, F# is the only mainstream programming language which provides first class support to make sure that you will ... (more…)

RISC-V architecture gets support for language that enables development of highly concurrent and highly safe systems. The Rust language has a syntax that is... (more…)