Julien F
julien.dokitek.com
Julien F
@julien.dokitek.com
💽 I love all things tech and IT 💻
⚡️ FPGAs, IoT and Digital Design
🏃‍♂️Running and Fitness
Cat person 🐈‍⬛
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Je découvre aujourd’hui avec effroi l’existence de tout un pan de notre société pour lequel le qualificatif de sociopathes ne saurait être assez fort.

Quelle horreur, quelle infamie
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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No matter who you are or who you love, you are welcome here.

Happy Pride Month, Minnesota!
June 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Signing this one should be mandatory, what the fuck
PETITION TO MAKE OUR WORLD A BETTER PLACE,
EU citizens sign the petition "Ban on conversion practices in the European Union" 🩷
if you aren't a citizen of EU you can send this petition to EU citizens

I signed it now its YOUR turn!
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

#eu #lgbtq+ #lgbt #europeanunion
May 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
That’s it, I did it !
I designed a fully functional RV32I RISC-V pipelined (!!) processor.

What an endeavor it has been 😭

It can run at 55MHz on the DE10-Lite.

Thanks to everyone that made this achievement possible !

Stay tuned for more FPGAs shenanigans !

#riscv #iot #fpga
May 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Welp… I started an #opensource, kind of #osh thing. 🧑‍💻

I’m designing a RISC-V 6 steps pipeline CPU core, synthesizable on real hardware.

Once the core supports the full RV32I instruction set (bare metal, no CSRs), I’ll add some IO, timers, and turn it into an MCU.

I’m impatient to show it to you !
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Hi @warandpeas.bsky.social 👋

So impatient to read it !
April 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Welp… that escalated quickly 😅
April 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I promised more FPGA shenanigans.
What about a custom RISC-V cpu that can run C code ?

I’ve designed a primitive single cycle RV32Ish (it’s missing a few instr) CPU and implemented it on the DE10-Lite.
It broke me 😂
What a journey it has been from the @shawnhymel.bsky.social FPGA course to this !
April 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public
April 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Now that #AppleIntelligence is available in France, I promply installed it.
I'm shocked at how bad it is. Read the reviews, i was sure you were all exaggerating.

It's so bad the "Urgent notifications" thing disturbed me and urged me to respond to... a scam...

Don't get me started on the rest...
April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨
March 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The whole @theatlantic.com story with the full transcript is the wildest thing I’ve read in a long time

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Spotted my first #Swasticar « buyers remorse » a few days ago, but I don’t buy it, let me explain

License plates numbers here are issued on a chronological fashion. « GV » kinda means « mid 2024 » Elon was already batshit crazy at this point.

It’s more like a « please don’t key my car »

Fuck that
March 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Rev 2 is now assembled and working !

With only 1 botch wire 😂. I trusted KiCAD a bit too much with the diode footprint.
84% efficiency at 15V to 170V@20mA, not that bad, I think the transformer is not very efficient.
Micromax package was challenging to hand solder 😅

USB-C PD works!
March 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Revision 2 of my Nixie Tube power supply is now in production.

It’s rated for 6 IN-14 tubes @ 2mA, and works with either an USB-C PD 3.0 3A input or a direct 15VDC pin header.

I’ll open source the final revision once I’m sure it does not blow up and everything is fine

#oshw #opensource #nixie
March 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I think I settled on something for my « endgame » side project : A Nixie Tube clock based on a custom RISC-V processor implemented on an FPGA, running custom C code.

It combines every aspect of Digital Design and Computer Architecture, plus it’s a fun project. Here’s the power supply! (cont)
March 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Let this sink in.
March 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Intel's Pentium processor (1993). Looking inside the chip , I found a large, complicated circuit just to multiply by 3 (lower right). Why? The Pentium uses a fast technique to multiply 64-bit number and it turns out that 3 is a special case. Let's take a closer look at multiplication... 1/N
March 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
89 seconds to go folks…

thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
2025 Doomsday Clock Statement - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 89 seconds to midnight.
thebulletin.org
March 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Puzzled about the @frame.work event!
On one hand, awesome work with the 13, which is now a mature piece of hardware with valuable updates.
Then the 12… wwwokay I guess ? A modular touchscreen 2in1 is fire 🔥, but the bezels 😬

Then the mindf*ck begins (cont…)
February 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Continuing my learning journey!
Writing dirty HDL code is already far from easy, but writing clean HDL is way harder !

Reading the amazing book "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Sarah and David Harris, I decided to implement in hardware one of the examples, the traffic light controller.
February 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hey @ifixit.com, i've been waiting for your answer about my nearly unusable FixHub.

It seems that a concentricity defect between the barrel and the jack input (tested with multiple tips) is causing a really flimsy connection.

I hate to do this... but i've waited long enough, please get back to me
February 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is one of the fundamental building blocks of the fabric of the universe
Congratulations on your new home printer! You may print 30 things error free over the next 3 months, and then, everything is going to fail!
February 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM