4-panel comic. (1) [Glowing black dot surrounded by clouds.] DOT: I think I did a good job with this universe. Pressure waves dance through gas clouds. They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart. (2) [Some of the clouds are clumping together.] DOT: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together. Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in. (3) [More clouds are sucked in.] DOT: It’s not stopping! The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating! I messed up. I messed up *bad*. (4) [The clump has become a shining star.] DOT: NOOOOOOOO!!! My beautiful clouds! Ruined! It’s all ruined!

Star Formation

xkcd.com/3222/

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Oh wow, one would think that should be somewhat straight forward... might have been easier to do the GUI in Rust and use the signing knowledge you have from Poststation then :)

Sounds painful… reminds me of this blog post i saw in TWiR last week (LWiR?). Maybe its useful…

d34dl0ck.me/cargo-codesi...

I finally managed to rewrite the Cherry Ray Tracer GUI using egui, an immediate mode GUI for Rust with WASM support. In addition, I figured out threading in WebAssembly via SharedArrayBuffers, so this thing is now lightning fast.

kmdouglass.github.io/cherry

#optics #wasm #raytracing

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing all the new fun things you get share with the rest of the world :)

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The current FAQ section on rust-embedded.org/faq/ is being worked over and expanded.
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#EmbeddedRust

Very excited about this board and very much looking forward to getting my hands on a few of them!

Image of part of a printed circuit board for an incubator controller. The image focuses on the MCU and surrounding components, many of which show a blue-ish corrosion layer from saltwater damage.

If you are looking for a new incubator, look for a model that has the control board **above** the chamber, especially if you work with salt water...

Don't get me wrong, I love oxidized firmware #EmbeddedRust, not so much corroded components though.

TFW you start up a $70k controller for a new instrument and it flashes “Windows Embedded Compact 7” at you…

They might write those applications for people like me… my brain when I read this: “Oh, its good for a CPAP machine, it’s gonna be fine for my hobby project too :)”

Actually both, mostly working with the 2350 these days

It would be kind of fun to have device operation configuration (.doc) files in the repos...

More serious: I do kinda like .ddd, it's catchy, leaves pronunciation open though (d-cubed?).
.ddsl sounds close to DSL lines, but that might only be for people remembering them :)

excited for the linux client, very much looking forward to it :)

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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

I've been wanting to try and start brain dumping some thoughts on (embedded) rust, how I approach problems, write HAL/device drivers, tools I use, etc.

But, I'm terrible at starting to write unless I have specific questions to answer.

So: ask me anything re: embedded/rust/hardware!

A glass ball containing a clear liquid hanging from a red ribbon. There is an NFPA hazard label with a Santa hat and a white label saying DANGER Hydrofluoric Acid 50%.

The #BEASTLab won second place in the departmental holiday decoration contest!

Knowing now what cephalopod math looks like, I wonder what iterators look like in cephalopod Rust...

And now I wonder if cephalopod Rust also uses a crab as the mascot... this rabbit hole looks deep!

#AdventOfCode

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

It's finally December again, day one of Advent of Code 2025 is done. #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust | corrode Rust Consulting I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. M...

It has been out for a bit, but just read this great post on the corrode blog on defensive programming patterns in rust. A great overview, enjoy!

corrode.dev/blog/defensi...

Very fond memories! Safety-critical is quite the buzzword, this episodes finally gives a concise overview of what it all entails… thank you!

It's almost like I was there with them 🥹

Christmas (2025) is coming! The mscroggs.co.uk Advent Calendar is back for its eleventh year, making it the Advent calendar's tenth anniversary! Behind each door, there will be a puzzle with a three digit solution. The solution ...

It's nearly Christmas and something terrible has happened... www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/120

A cheat sheet of Cargo plugins to improve your day as a #rustlang developer. More detailed notes and a PDF version is available through the link in the QR code.

The Bragg Condition YouTube video by Kyle Douglass

When X-rays are incident upon a crystal, some of their energy is reflected from the lattice planes. Certain angles of incidence will lead to the observation of diffraction peaks due to constructive interference between the reflected wavefronts.

#optics #microscopy

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Fun and interesting article on the history of "deliberately sacrificial conductor[s]" (aka fuses):
c.digikey.com/dc/hIEerrlOP...

Reminded me of the fuse discussion in episode "How is software safety certified?" of @sdr-podcast.com