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irq5.io
Personal blog · irq5.io · on HN as zxcvgmhardwareprogramming
irq5.io is a personal blog at irq5.io about hardware and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an example of Eagle's ULP scripting for PCB layout, a 2013 post on a circular-layout script. The one comment cites it as a source and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
adventures of an electronics & software guy
What Hacker News says?
To be honest, I think some form of abuse was bound to happen. Your files are encrypted client-side with JavaScript before uploading, so to the server it's just an opaque blob. Out of curiosity, I did some technical analysis¹ of how your files were being encrypted to see if they were really secure and as a side-effect, also wrote a Go client for it. An interesting property I did discover about the way the encryption…
Comment linking /2019/05/14/data-encryption-on-firefox-send/
on “What happened to Firefox Send?”Submitted Batch Binary Analysis with Ida Pro 7.4 Automation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's netlist files for schematics, but they're a bit raw to do by hand... Each PCB design package has its own programming language, here's an example of what you can do with Eagle's ULP: http://irq5.io/2013/03/30/circular-layout-ulp-for-eagle/ Edit: I suppose you're talking about something more declarative like Eg. povray scripts, I'm not aware of such a thing. Edit2: Eagle's .brd/.sch files are actually XML, FWI…
Comment linking /2013/03/30/circular-layout-ulp-for-eagle/
on “CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium”