On the excellent @talkpython podcast live stream tonight, one of the guests mentioned that @micropython fits in 256k. I was reminded my own beard is now grey (#greybeard engineers had been mentioned) when I remembered that 20 years ago when I joined my employer as an #electronicEngineer there was a really difficult problem to solve: how could we free up 512 bytes of the 8k flash memory to accomodate a third-party software component that had ballooned to a whopping 1024 bytes.

With the sudden influx of new users, time for another #introduction.

I'm an azure-winged magpie living in #China doing #embedded software development for #PublicGrid monitoring and testing tools. Unlike most of my #ElectronicEngineer colleagues, I am a 100% #software nerd with just enough #hardware smarts to be dangerous. I design embedded #frameworks and #libraries that my colleagues lack the foundations to do create. I chiefly work with the #STM32 line of #MCUs.

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With the sudden influx of new users, time for another introduction.

I'm an azure-winged magpie living in #China doing #embedded software development for #PublicGrid monitoring and testing tools. Unlike most of my #ElectronicEngineer colleagues, I am a 100% #software nerd with just enough #hardware smarts to be dangerous. I design embedded #frameworks and #libraries that my colleagues lack the foundations to do create. I chiefly work with the #STM32 line of #MCUs.

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