The first post

I've finally gotten around to turning my website into a completely static site that just uses vanilla JavaScript, HTML and CSS, instead of relying on a huge React development environment and complex GitHub deployment workflow. It has the same features that I think keep it nice and simple: 1-bit theme with customization. However, I've now added a blog.

The primary purpose of the blog is to keep some useful information somewhere online, accessible and easy to share. As I complete projects, I am able to document some design choices or resources I used to make things easier for the next person to build off of. I do a lot of embedded work, and documenting how to start writing device drivers or select components is something that could be useful to a lot of people getting started. I found such articles to be an immensely helpful resource, and still do.

There are quite a few cases in embedded where people writing software for certain devices are the first people to do it, or at least the first people to do it in the open source community. The documentation on some things is very lacking, which can make it tricky for newcomers. Plus, a lot of developers interested in embedded are usually doing some kind of hacking by re-purposing old devices or running their own code on devices that weren't supposed to be programmed by the end user. In such cases, documenting the process is an asset.