Notes
Notes to my future self: engineering write-ups, project post-mortems, and stray thoughts.
- Taking my work off the hackathon serversAlmost everything I built used to live on Streamlit or Cloud Run, and then quietly died after the contest. Doing it differently this time.
- Simulation passed. The board disagreed.A FIFO arbiter cost me two weeks. The bug was not in the RTL — it was in my assumptions about what "simulation" means.
- Why we extended the ISA instead of bolting on an acceleratorPost-quantum signing spends almost all its time in Keccak. Given two ways to accelerate it, we took the harder one — because of data movement.