Nicolas Far
acronfails.com
Nicolas Far
@acronfails.com
I'm curious. I did a cursory Google search and couldn't immediately find a good "no-alloc" patterns reference. Do you know of any you would recomend?
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Yeah, I think it might have been a combo of:
- pre 1.0
- xTensa uC
- me trying to do wifi on it

I like the general direction things are going there. I might give it another go soon with some of the risc variants.
December 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I've played a bit with the esp HAL, but struggled with how unstable everything was. Dependencies pointing to Git commits, rust version dependencies.
What uC / ecosystem would you recommend for hobbyists getting into embedded using rust?
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Aha! Windows connection sharing is still a thing. Now to see if I can get the wifi dongle working
March 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
So my debug process while I wait for some hardware is:
1. Hook it to my PC's monitor
2. Set up stuff
3. Move it to where there is wired Internet
4. Look at it wondering while it doesn't work
5. Unplug and go to 1
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yeah, I got unlucky that the Lenovo Tiny I got:
1. The HDMI doesn't work (unsure why yet)
2. It came with a wifi dongle with questionable linux support.
March 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Ok, after reading through the handbook, it's kinda clicking now. I think of a type system as a way to help design the application architecture. JS developers want TS because they want to make JS stop telling them "Why won't you stop hitting yourself?"
November 24, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Not trying to shit on TS. I'm long overdue to finally understand it, and it feels like my priors around what to expect are probably way off.
November 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM