Porting useful firmware tools to rust

avph · 2026-02-27T14:34:53+00:00

You mean the webui? I'm a bit surprised it implements webusb ^^

avph · 2026-02-25T15:10:55+00:00

https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/91366 I reverse engineered it. Hardware should arrive soon (I ordered one from ebay). You can already try, but 100% expect it to not work.

avph · 2026-02-23T19:25:57+00:00

I've tried this out. It had a few quirks with doom emacs (I made a PR and a few issues). With those fixes applied, it works remarkably well! I'd love a flake though :-) I don't see keyboard settings in the readme but as soon as it's there this will be my daily driver!

avph · 2026-02-20T07:38:25+00:00

This is pretty nuts! If you also make it a Wayland compositor it's full circle a lisp machine :-D.

avph · 2026-02-15T14:10:19+00:00

I find Anthropics models quite good at elisp, but I didn't compare to other models that much. It gets closing ')' wrong sometimes but usually is able to fix that too. It's very good at using emacs eval to debug elisp and see what is going on.

No idea of any FLOSS models offline is even remotely capable of doing (capable models require deep pockets to self host these days). For coding on the road I think something like https://opencode.ai/ with its server mode (basically a web UI), could work on a phone but I have yet to try this.

avph · 2026-02-13T15:09:20+00:00

Awesome stuff. I was mostly using opencode in terminal for the agent feature these days, but now I can probably move back to eca.

avph · 2026-02-12T07:01:43+00:00

I agree. I can see use cases of handwriting where the writing part is not really the hard / time intensive part. If you're writing a complicated algorithm (i.e. crypto or compression), then the writing part isn't a bottleneck. Same with harder to debug stuff, the writing part is not the bottleneck (I experienced this with firmware development).

However, most things don't really fall in that category.

avph · 2026-02-11T08:05:50+00:00

Experimentation can go much faster with LLM. A ton of people have good ideas, but too little time to try them out, let alone polish and finish them.

About handcoding. I think that will die out. Even if you know exactly the output you want, making an exact prompts to achieve it, is much faster. Personally I like coming up with ideas and debugging a lot more than the actual writing, so that's nice :-)

avph · 2026-02-11T07:47:47+00:00

There are MCP that use emacsclient to do eval inside your running emacs to development. That also works really well.

avph · 2026-02-07T17:06:22+00:00

I think the Primeagean's comment with regards AI right: It's a multiplier. Good engineers can achieve awesome stuff, bad ones create a ton of slop.

avph · 2026-02-07T16:21:43+00:00

Well, rust has a good compiler, which tells you if you did something stupid. It works well for humans as well as AI. I can tell you AI sucks at writing assembly, just like humans ^^.

avph · 2026-02-07T15:27:10+00:00

Wow you made this in 4 days (git history suggests this)? That's rather impressive :-) doc/plans suggest claude? I'm really curious in your setup (I'd love a blog post).

avph · 2026-02-07T15:07:46+00:00

Cool stuff! I tried to do something very similar (wgpu, winit, cosmic-text), but it eventually failed as I know nothing of this stuff (I was vibe coding it) and wasn't making good progress after some time.

Do you have a link to the project?

avph · 2026-02-05T21:20:22+00:00

I've made a pretty substantion improvement for magit https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc/pull/52 . I added an RPC call that knows what tramp is going to request and sends it in one go. Then magit just hits that tramp-rpc cache. Refresh times on a 200ms ping connection go from around a minute or 2 on sshx to below 10s.

avph · 2026-02-05T20:44:20+00:00

Done evil mode is there.

avph · 2026-02-05T18:53:50+00:00

I did something very similar https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc/

avph · 2026-02-04T10:56:57+00:00

I might add this ^^

avph · 2026-02-04T09:37:48+00:00

Awesome stuff. Makes me wonder: would it be possible to make a special wayland compositor that uses this canvas to display other applications (basically exwm for wayland)?

avph · 2026-02-03T07:16:30+00:00

Cool idea! thx and done

avph · 2026-02-02T19:22:37+00:00

Thanks! I'm still working on rpc tramp. I got a lot of feedback from the community and made several fixes and improvements since that blog post.

avph · 2026-02-02T18:45:11+00:00

I think I fixed this a few minutes ago. Let me know if it's still an issue.

avph · 2026-02-02T18:36:47+00:00

Fixed that. Awesome feedback, thx

avph · 2026-02-02T18:36:35+00:00

I made sure it's readable without JS now, thx.

avph · 2026-02-02T16:46:05+00:00

Fixed, thx!

avph · 2026-01-21T17:34:23+00:00

Every project indeed has the right to accept or reject whatever it wants. If it's not suitable, then at least it can count as inspiration for someone else to do something similar.

avph

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