sneak peek at Glasgow revD0 designed by Elen Eisendle / Fully Automated!

i have the funniest vivado problem it cannot display the letter `d`

which is to say, whenever i perform an allocation (do something i want or need to happen that involves creating future housework) i also do a little bit of collection (perform a proportionally sized amount of work towards any available chore) i know that per GC theory this should eventually […]

i got ffs 24 days ago btw

Power Delivery Deceiver could be a band name

(it's adam and eve, not violet and steve voice) "it's xilinx and altera, not amd and intel"

today I learned that we (as a civilization) now can put 16 silicon flash dice into a single 700µm microSD card on a commercial scale https://www.ose.com.tw/en/ic-services/memory-product-package/microsdsd

I would like to formally announce that the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD development (the next iteration: with the same FPGA but 32 digital I/Os and 8 single-ended analog channels that can be configured as 4 differential ones) is well underway with a CS campaign planned later this year; stay tuned!

zun’s words on being a chuunibyou are more mission critical than ever in big 2026

what is wrong with vendors

do you think he had a catboy phase

me every time I am reminded of Linux kernel version history

believe it or not, in america, even the missiles are made of corn

hi

i implemented Ascon-Hash256 in Amaranth! (as well as laid the groundwork for the rest of Ascon family functions, including Ascon-AEAD128) it comes at 1268 LUTs for iCE40 in the "compact" configuration, processing an average of 5.3 bit/cycle. a little […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

> Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator. Is such a good sentence

ナァゾでぇすねぇ

owarimonogatari (this is an old edit we didn't make: twitter.com/IncorrectNis...)

added a new #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer applet, `control-clock`: a simple clock generator for when you just need to feed something into the XI pin of an MCU or something. you can use it in combination with other applets! e.g.: `glasgow multi probe-rs ... ++ control-clock --clk A7 -f 2000`

To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs. Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

It's now safe to turn off your oscilloscope.

@hikari.noyu.me we haven't talked in so long also btw amazing monogats thread; i hope the rewatch and your life more generally are going great

千枚通し ("awl") is such a cool word. literally "[tool that] stabs through one thousand pages". thank you araragi tsukihi for saying this cool word

僕はキメ顔でそう言った

i feel somehow obligated to post a clip of most of the opening scene of Kabukimonogatari, where Ougi discusses the meaning of stop lights with Araragi, as a metaphor for how people aren't sufficiently cynical about the world

we do respect in theory the concept of trying to avoid sounding like a weeb when translating, but the problem with that is that the monogatari series is fundamentally otaku media, the characters constantly make otaku culture references, they *should* sound like weebs you know!

Doing an employer SSO sign in workflow and seeing it briefly flicker to "accounts.youtube.com" because apparently that's load bearing in Google infra

Being a transsexual puts you at an inherent advantage with FPGA engineering, since you already have experience with reconfigurable hardware alongside minimizing clocking issues.

I wrote the LUT article for my blog! https://github.com/Ravenslofty/blog/issues/16

who likes SERDES and anime?

who likes SERDES and anime?

These right-angle SMD adapters go kinda hard. Makes sense if you want to have a hall effect sensor at the right orientation.

check out the (new, not merged yet) #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer I²C controller documentation! whitequark.github.io/glasgow/refa... is there anything else you'd like to see, either in general in the docs, or as a part of this applet?

The stencil for these look like flowers! 🌸

the next problem was to *modulate* the signal with morse code. he used another mag amp. this one *detunes* the giant transformer that gathers current from all the poles and matches the impedance to the antenna array. turning off the key shifts the frequency, reducing the output power by over 90%.

the next big problem that Alexanderson had to solve was controlling the speed. any variation caused the output frequency to drift out of the range that the antenna could support. this circuit uses a closed-loop design with a resonant filter to control magnetic amplifiers.

so now the maximum frequency is controlled mainly by the speed and the number of slots in the spinning rotor. and those can be packed together pretty tightly! it's very similar to how a Hammond organ works.

see, a alternator's output frequency depends on 2 things: how fast it turns and how many *poles* you have (basically groups of windings.) to bump up the frequency, you have to put on as many poles as you can physically fit and then run it as fast as you can!

but Professor Elihu Thomson and a certain Mr. Tesla (yes, *that* Tesla) figured out a way to build an AC alternator that could produce 10 amps at up to 12,000 Hz!

did you know that 100 years ago there were *electromechanical* radio transmitters? these things are so crazy, you just have to read this

The idea that you can just “teach computer science” and be apolitical is a beautiful dream that expired in the 2000s, at the latest. Computer science has re-organized every facet of our society: it is inherently political. Instead of taking this idea seriously, we ran from it. Now we live in hell.

me and the lads saw you from the other side of the abandoned soviet industrial site and really liked your vibe

total Captain Haddock cultural victory

the same applies for being the networking guy at a company

the existence of Magic the Gathering implies the existence of Magic the Scattering

secret identity would like you all to know that submissions are open for the eleventh workshop on language-theoretic security langsec.org/spw25/ we look forward to your weirdest machines!

the vibe of these Ominous Blue Canisters and the cursedly aged tubing connecting them to these hapless washers is impeccably cursed i will not elaborate. "the canisters have parasitized the washers, they have latched on and are injecting blue slime into the washers via their probosces"