Weekly Notes 1 (Jan 19 - 26)

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Last Updated 27th Jan 2026

Main: The EE Stuff

Started watching the lectures of NPTEL course Digital Design with Verilog, inorder to brush my Digital basics and also to get started with Verilog.
Had setup Icarus Verilog and GTKwave in my Lap and following aklsh’s Verilog writeup.
- Will be doing more!
@splinedrive in X, who made a RISC-V Linux system on his own from scratch was an inspiration to start this.
- Also refering the book, “Design Video Game Hardware with Verilog” suggested by him.
Also was able to go through the Udemy Course on developing STM32 microcontroller based USB HID devices. Have to do soldering to expose the SWO pin of STLinkv2 for debugging(ITM).

It would be nice, If I could convert blogs into podcasts as I get a lot of good blog posts everyday especially from lobste.rs and Indieweb and couldn;t read much of them atleast If I could hear, I can get a gist of it.
- Need to explore, how I can do this and automate it for the feeds I get.
I wanted to go through Emacs gpt.el and calc and give a talk about it in KanchiLUG. I don’t know when the time comes to do it.
Got to know about Brain Fuck Programming Language, with only 8 commands and which is Turing Complete ! and also How Urban Muller developed it. May be one day, I’ll try porting it to ESP32 microcontroller (powerful than Amiga 2000) and develop from there.
Literally amazed, How this guy developed a 8 bit game in Tamil named வாடிவாசல் for NES console. He has spent so much efforts developing the UI, writing Assembly and so on.

Started using the Super Productivity Desktop app, which has built-in Time Tracker, Lists, Kanban, Tracks the Idle time you spend on Lap etc. Will write about it later.
Watched Final Destination 6 movie.