Somewhere between the slow, animated pieces of a childhood game and the rating number that now scores my every move, I started wondering what, exactly, the chess board is measuring in me

Ivan Svarkovsky’s S3-MSX-PC open-source project implements a bare-metal MSX2+ emulator running on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller and outputting 64-color VGA via a simple R-2R resistor ladder. It’s a fork of the Retro-Go emulator for ODROID-GO and other ESP32 devices, but with various optimizations. It was tested on an off-the-shelf ESP32-S3 board with one core handling the game logic and the other…

Markarian '26 shares his message for his fellow graduates.

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ESPHome 2026.5.0 has just been released with the beta version of the new ESPHome Device Builder web app that replaces the legacy in-tree dashboard with a real configuration editor, a firmware job queue, multi-select bulk actions, labels and areas, out-of-sync detection, cross-config search, distributed builds, and a proper settings UI. The firmware itself gains optimizations of the main loop,…

There’s a lot of hype around the Rust programming language, and I’m seeing it being adopted by various projects, not least the Linux kernel. However, so far it was unclear to me whether it was suitable for embedded firmware development since the hardware resources are limited on microcontrollers. A low memory and storage footprint is required, and optimal performance may also be important, for…

One giant cell can solve problems that challenge human engineers.

With the price of RAM getting out of control, it might be a good idea to remind Linux users to enable ZRAM so they can get better performance without upgrading memory, or save money on their next single board computer by selecting a board with the right amount of memory. I had already written about the subject when I enabled ZRAM on a ODROID-XU4Q in 2018 using zram-config, and did the same on my…

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 7.0 on LKML: The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out. I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the “new normal” at least for a while. Only time will tell. Anyway, this…

Better known for its open-source wolfSSL SSL/TLS library, wolfSSL (the company) has now released the wolfIP open-source, lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations (e.g., no malloc calls) designed for resource-constrained embedded systems.

The company highlights that wolfIP "supports both endpoint-only mode and full multi-interface support with optional IP forwarding. By…

Espressif Systems released the ESP-IDF v6.0 framework a few days ago with stable support for ESP32-C5 and ESP32-C61 SoCs, as well as preview support for ESP32-H21 and ESP32-H4 low-power wireless microcontrollers. The framework also implements a new ESP-IDF Installation Manager (EIM) to make the ESP-IDF installation easier, relies on the low-footprint Picolibc C library, adds security and tooling…

Learn how creativity, hybrid roles, and AI augmentation will define teams in the next five years, and how the CMO becomes a strategic growth architect.

The startup grew out of frustrations with the complexity of chip design.

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I was chatting with my friend about video games as aesthetic experience* and they made the point that tedium is used as negative space in gameplay (for example, forcing the player to walk over to another NPC instead of porting there). In writing, the on-page density of sentences and paragraphs creates visual white space… but […]

Misaligned Markets turns one year old. I reflect on the year and what comes next.

Dylan Piercey from eBay explores Marko's pioneering streaming and islands architecture features, plus the major innovations in Marko v6's new compiler.

David Blass showcases ArkType's TypeScript-native approach to runtime validation and shares performance optimization secrets for TypeScript developers.

Robert Balicki introduces Isograph as a potential future of React data fetching, comparing it to his experience building Relay at Meta.

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Yesterday we were discussing our (admittedly) somewhat ghetto, not-quite-batched Neo4j implementation.

The long and short of it is that I was initially attacking the import process as one would on a JDBC client for a relational database. Query for these values here, create those if some don't exist, insert relationships here, etc.

That seems to be woefully inefficient in…