Notes to my future self: engineering write-ups, project post-mortems, and stray thoughts.https://itskimmy.pages.devenhttps://itskimmy.pages.dev/en/blog/hello-from-my-own-sitehttps://itskimmy.pages.dev/en/blog/hello-from-my-own-siteAlmost everything I built used to live on Streamlit or Cloud Run, and then quietly died after the contest. Doing it differently this time.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMetahttps://itskimmy.pages.dev/en/blog/post-synthesis-lied-to-mehttps://itskimmy.pages.dev/en/blog/post-synthesis-lied-to-meA FIFO arbiter cost me two weeks. The bug was not in the RTL — it was in my assumptions about what "simulation" means.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTVerilogFPGADebugginghttps://itskimmy.pages.dev/en/blog/isa-extension-vs-acceleratorhttps://itskimmy.pages.dev/en/blog/isa-extension-vs-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.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTRISC-VPost-quantum cryptoArchitecture