Now

Updated on June 22, 2026

What I’m focused on right now. (What’s a /now page?)

Projects

spresense-rs

A Rust-based hardware abstraction layer for the CXD5602 and Sony Spresense.

Soldering

Got a bunch of soldering practice kits. I have some downstream projects I’m thinking about but before messing with certain fine soldering like SMD, I need to practice with those.

In particular, the Sony Spresense addon boards like the Extension board have a footprint(?) for an ARM debug connector port to solder the connector to, but these cost $50 USD + shipping at the current moment, and so need practice a bit before trying for the board itself.

Technical Reading and Learning

Since one of the widely used tools at JGI is BBTools is written in Java and much of my initial work has focused on developing CI testing for it, I feel it is useful for learning.

I skimmed through “Core Java for the Impatient” by Cary S. Horstmann. Its been relatively straightforward, but also as someone who has avoided Java since I didn’t have a clear path to using it, there are large number of similarities between Java and Rust. I feel there a number of features that I enjoy in Rust that are also in Java, if a bit more verbose and non-default.

Light lunch reading.