cryothene: home
Welcome to cryothene! 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.
Long ago, I had a GitHub Pages website that wasn't very good. I
then moved it to Neocities and actually started producing
content, but Neocities is for "omg windows XP dialup nostalgia",
not actual content. I also don't think it gets indexed by search
engines very well. Now I'm self-hosting this website through
Cloudflare on my own domain.
cryothene is pronounced like an old Greek word, but it
doesn't really mean anything.
blog
- Restoring a PowerBook 160
- May 3, 2026
- I fixed and restored a 35-year-old laptop and now I have a 35-year-old laptop
- AI, slop, and sludge
- March 7, 2026
- Some thoughts on the current state of creation
- Sharpie, part 7: image and video processing
- February 11, 2026
- Is it over?
- 2026 goals
- January 1, 2026
- Let's do it again
- Looking back on 2025
- December 29, 2025
- A whole year gone by, a whole year well used
- Sharpie, part 6: partial updates
- December 24, 2025
- What if we updated half of the
brain display?
- 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.