Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this October.

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Articles & Learning

• LLVM Hello World | Dr James Hamilton
  Getting started with LLVM IR. — Noah

• Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter and Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter Boards | Silicon Labs
  Porting and shrinking Quake to run on an embedded device. — Heiko

• Blinky | Adam Gulyas
  Nice technique: v-cut vias for panelized boards for testing. — Noah

• What Is New In LLVM 19? | Arm Community
  Roundup of LLVM 19 contributions by ARM. — Noah

• Playing with BOLT and Postgres | Tomas Vondra
  Writeup about applying LLVM’s Binary Optimization and Layout Tool (BOLT) to a practical program: PostgreSQL. — Noah

• Supporting Custom RISC-V Extensions in LLVM | Alex Bradbury, Igalia
  Presentation on how LLVM supports custom RISC-V extensions. — Noah

• MQTT Turns 25 – Here’s How It Has Endured | Andy Piper, The Lost Outpost
  The co-creator of MQTT shares a brief look back at the history. — Eric

• PlayStation Vita Architecture (Part 1) - A Practical Analysis | Rodrigo Copetti
  Great writeup on the PlayStation Vita architecture. — Eric

• Zero or Sign Extend | The Ryg Blog
  A post on the ins and outs of sign-extension on fixed-width integers with some interesting implementations. — Eric

• 5 Tips to Make the Most of Zephyr Documentation | Zephyr Project
  Some improvements to the Zephyr documentation and how to take advantage of them. — Eric

• Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Version 2 | Hackaday
  Very high level overview of USB 2.0. — Noah

• Android Debugging Crash Course | LineageOS
  Debugging AOSP, divided into user space, kernel space, and vendor/OEM customizations, from the folks maintaining the LineageOS AOSP distribution. — Victor

Projects & Tools

• Jailhouse - Linux-based partitioning hypervisor | Siemens
  Cool hyper visor for Linux + bare metal real time. — François

• WrapMaster: Dynamic Function Wrapping for Enhanced Debugging | wafgo
  Neat tool (only for binaries with relocatable symbols though 😮‍💨 ) — Noah

News & Announcements

• Samsung Galaxy Ring Arrives in India with Support for Galaxy AI | Republic World
  The new Samsung Galaxy Ring is running Zephyr! 🪁

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