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OneVariable : Home
Personal blog · onevariable.com/blog · on HN as jamesmunnsprogrammingsystemshardware
OneVariable : Home is a personal blog at onevariable.com about programming, systems and hardware. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
OneVariable is James Munns's blog and podcast on embedded Rust, chip manufacturing and related engineering. Commenters link a podcast episode with Scott Mabin on Espressif, esp-idf and embedded Rust.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Just found out about your podcast and I quite enjoyed learning how esp-idf came about. Great content! > James talks with Scott Mabin about how he joined the Espressif team and got involved in embedded Rust, the working culture in chip manufacturing companies and preferences about designing and building mechanical keyboards. https://onevariable.com/blog/cwj-ep016-scott-mabin/
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on “Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?”Submitted Interrupts Is Threads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am for a couple years now. I do consulting work [1] around Rust/Embedded Systems/Systems Engineering, usually helping teams that are either kicking off a project (so helping with planning, scoping, and backfilling knowledge gaps), or people who want help building a proof of concept (so: just build it for me asap) for existing companies exploring new ideas or for startups that are working on demos for investors, et…
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on “Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?”Submitted Phase Locked State Machines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi James! Does ` https://onevariable.com/blog ` have an rss/atom feed?
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on “A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)”Oh hey, one of the authors of this post here (James), happy to answer any questions. This post has been discussed here a couple times, but AMA :) edit, the most commented version of this post was the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096946 . This is what I'm up to these days: https://onevariable.com/
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on “A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)”SEEKING WORK | Remote | Rust and Embedded Systems Location: Berlin, DE Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies and tools: Rust, Embedded Systems (Cortex-M, RISC-V), Desktop/server apps/tools, async/await Website: https://onevariable.com Email: contact@onevariable.com GitHub: https://github.com/jamesmunns Hey, I'm James! I have my company (OneVariable), and have 7+ years of embedded Rust experience, and 10+…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)”This is something I'm also working on, but using off the shelf hardware for now and working on the OS first[0]. I'm going for something lower spec and portable for now, mostly because there are a fair number of relatively well documented RISC-V processors these days (the single core, 1 GHz C906 CPU inside the SoC probably technically counts as open source!), where it seems feasible to write drivers. I'm not sure it…
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on “Putting out the hardware dumpster fire”