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I'm Iris, a non-binary (they/them,she/her) electrical engineer with a passion for reverse engineering, cryptography, programming and just generally figuring out how things work. I frequently fully or partially take deep-dives into a topic of interest that isn't explained well or in detail online, and I hope to be able to document that knowledge here finally.

  1. Blogs and posts to read

    I thought I’d collect some of the resources I like on this page and link to them for other people to find easier. Note though that to start I’ve only posted a few that I literally was just looking at and I’ll likely flesh this out as I find specific entries to add. I will also probably move this to it’s own page since it’s not really static enough to make sense as a post. …

    • on blog, software, cryptography, explanations, other-people, reverse-engineering, integrated-circuits

  2. What makes a good blog

    In my own opinion

    One of the resources I seek out most when researching a complex topic or project are blog posts by other people who have worked on that project, or do interesting projects on that topic. A particularly good example of a blog that is a great example of this is Ken Sherrif’s. His blog posts on reverse engineering silicon integrated circuits and describing how the layout maps onto components was a great place to come across and start exploring while I was briefly extremely interested in mapping a specific decap that I found online. …

    • on blogging

  3. Github Pages is still weird

    So in classic distracted fashion I started writing the FRC CAN bus post that will hopefully be the outcome of today and I managed to briefly gain some hope that Github pages was better and then immediately those hoped were dashed. …

    • on meta, blog, github-pages, documentation, jekyll

  4. Blog update!

    (yes real posts are coming soon I promise)

    Well this blog has been kind of dead, no better time to make some major changes before I finally get a few posts out. In short, I updated the theme to one that looks a lot nicer. But that’s really a poor summary of all the work I did (it took a few hours this past evening to get everything nice enough to be ready to try and push it up globally). So let’s go over exactly what I worked on. …

    • on meta, software, blog, theme, style, history

  5. Brand new blog

    (and a bit of a rant about setting it up)

    So I have a blog now, how unique and interesting. I’ve thought about starting one seriously for a month or two now and I think it’s worthwhile to try it. You’d think it would be pretty easy to just setup a basic Jekyll site without even any theming using Github Pages, but I actually encountered a lot of headaches. …

    • on meta, software, documentation