cryothene: home

If you're here from my resume: Please scroll down to see some projects and writing work, and see my GitHub profile for a nearly complete archive of my work.

Welcome! This website is where I host a little blog, put some of my opinions in writing, and have some fun now and then.

For a while I had a "blog" on a GitHub Pages website that was originally intended as a project portfolio for potential employers. As far as I know not a single soul ever read it, so I moved everything to neocities and now make fairly regular content updates here. The blog is definitely the main meat of this website.

Generally speaking, I enjoy technology, electronics, 3D printing, Xenoblade, math, anime, science fiction, guitar, rock, synthwave, in more or less that order.

I'm not really one for graphic design so you won't find anything too flashy here. The name also doesn't mean anything.

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blog

Sharpie, part 5: success!
October 26, 2025
Ten months later, we have liftoff!

Sharpie, part 4: one step forward, one step back
September 30, 2025
Bringup for real...but it doesn't work.

Sharpie, part 3: hardware bringup
July 20, 2025
Not technically bringup but it also kinda is and also boards are here!

June 2025 update
June 21, 2025
I'm still here, I promise

Xenoblade X Definitive Edition
March 26, 2025
Peter, the game is here.

Nostalgia
March 6, 2025
I am complex and you are too

Sharpie, part 2: hardware design
February 20, 2025
Sharpie continues as we look at the development board hardware

Cranberry chicken recipe
February 3, 2025
Easy little recipe for some pretty good chicken

Sharpie, part 1: generating video signals
January 17, 2025
New project! I hope you like embedded because we're drowning in it over here

2025 goals
January 2, 2025
accountability yippee

Evangelion Sucks
December 18, 2024
clickbait

posts below here are from my old github pages site. warning: dubious quality ahead

rakko #1: Building a function-to-JSON Rust proc macro
July 20, 2024
One small step in one big project: convert Rust function signatures into JSON at compile time.

Playing audio to a Denon DRA-900H from Linux over AirPlay
February 2, 2024
Getting (well, waiting for) PipeWire AirPlay to work with a fancy new Denon stereo receiver.

Booting the Quartz64 from NVMe
November 18, 2023
Configuring the Quartz64 SBC to boot from an NVMe drive.

Fast Refresh on the Pervasive 2.66" Display
September 26, 2023
Reverse engineering and documenting the SPI protocol used by the Pervasive Displays 2.66" e-ink screen.

Optimizing BL808 Interrupts
August 27, 2023
Experimentation with interrupt speeds on the BL808 microcontroller in the Pine64 Ox64. (I don't own an Ox64 anymore so this is a relic of the past)

The Entities of i3Verticals
July 12, 2023
Exploring the company i3Verticals and the companies it owns.