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Nick Pinkston grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a family that has spent more than three generations in the manufacturing industry. They…...

This is a position paper that I originally circulated inside the firmware community at X. I've gotten requests for a public link, so I've cleaned it up and posted it here. This is, obviously, my personal opinion. Please read the whole thing before sending... (more…)

In Part 11, we spent some time clarifying mechanisms we had previously glossed over: how variables and functions from other ELF objects were accessed at runtime. We saw that doing so “proper” required the cooperation of the compiler, the assembler, the li... (more…)

I know it's been a while since I've put out a post and mostly because I'm trying to learn amazing things and get my hands dirty, trying to build solutions that actually make sense. One such pet-project has been Rust, probably the fastest growing systems l... (more…)