I was using this as a demo project for playing around with code generation tools, so it’s really not in a great state and entirely AI written, but I can share a link here when I get a chance.
My initial stab was a rust port targeting esp32 Heltec V4 (since it has some niceties like tokio) with Reticulum communication over serial, BLE, WiFi and LoRA. The serial interface was sort of working, but frankly debugging using rnsd/nomadnet was infuriating (there’s no tools just to easily see messages over the wire!).
I’ve moved onto a build system that can also target the SEEED Wio Tracker using no_std, but it’s been… messier. AI tooling doesn’t quite have the context length for big migrations like that yet.
A micro recommendation for This Week in Virology (TWiV). Essentially a journal club for virology papers, I think they nail the conversational/technical balance that’s so hard to get right.
Incidentally, TWiV changed my life. I was working as a cabinet maker with no college degree when I gave it a shot, on a whim. The host’s refusal to shy away from technical depth convinced me that I could learn hard things. 10 years I have a biochemistry degree and work as a machine learning engineer.
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