Joined January 2015
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I write posts and try to do them daily or at least weekly. Check out my site (tristanxr.com/) for my latest posts. I often write about topics like ARM, RISC-V, NixOS, and things I am interested in or involved in.
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FSBL starting to come up on River
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Wikipedia speedruns are great
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When you discover a bug in your maskrom but you're still in the FPGA testing phase.
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Imagine doing so much math that the government makes it illegal.
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Tristan Ross πŸ˜Ίβ„οΈ retweeted
Determinate Secure Packages 26.05 is now out and ready to rock your half-yearly Nixpkgs update world, with SLA-backed CVE remediation, full cache coverage in FlakeHub Cache, access to FlakeBOM, optional FIPS support, and all the other goodies now available to teams already on Nixpkgs 26.05 or looking to upgrade πŸ“¦ πŸ” ⬆️ ❄️ πŸš€ Link in thread 🧡 πŸ”— πŸ‘‡
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Tristan Ross πŸ˜Ίβ„οΈ retweeted
We're excited to announce the release of FlakeBOM, a CLI for generating CycloneDX SBOMs from Nix flakes. Lightning-fast and complete with VEX metadata and support for a wealth of information not provided by other tools, it's truly the perfect complement to Determinate Secure Packages ❄️ ⚑ πŸ“¦ πŸš€ Read more at the link in thread 🧡 πŸ”— πŸ‘‡
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Tristan Ross πŸ˜Ίβ„οΈ retweeted
BREAKING: USERS ARE SHOWING THE SUPREME OMNIPOTENT POWER OF THE CLAUDE MYTHOS. QUIT YOUR JOB IN CYBERSECURITY AND START PUTTING IN APPLICATIONS FOR MCDONALDS NOW
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5k contributions soon
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Why does GitHub know ASL?
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Just chilling on the couch with my cats while lunch is cooking.
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I'll be at Teardown in Portland next month and will be giving a talk on using Nix and Dart for hardware design. crowdsupply.com/teardown/por… #Teardown2026

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Working on the firmware for River. Weir will be UEFI with ACPI and DMI and written in Zig. This should be a good step towards bringing Linux up on River.
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Tristan Ross πŸ˜Ίβ„οΈ retweeted
My twitter feed right now
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Writing an ACPI ASL generator, I forgot how weird this DSL is.
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What's an FPGA with the most LUT's that work with yosys and nextpnr?
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Got DDR3 working on the OrangeCrab
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RC1.n (River Core V1 nano) booting on an iCESugar.
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Tristan Ross πŸ˜Ίβ„οΈ retweeted
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I wish the default GHA runners had KVM support. Would be really nice for NixOS tests in CI.
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Fuzzing a 64-bit RISC-V CPU.
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