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Progressive encoding and decoding of 'repeated' protobuffer fields.
Saturday, 24 January 2026I have found Google's Perfetto trace viewer to be a really useful tool to visualize arbitrary time-based traces by converting them into the protobuffer-based format that Perfetto uses. This is how both Tonbandgerät and CircumSpect work.
Especially with CircumSpect, the traces I am generating quickly reach into the
millions of TracePacket messages, and upwards of a gigabyte in size. This
makes bundling them all into a single Trace message that gets encoded or
decoded in a single pass infeasible, which lead me to dig into the encoding
scheme to manually implement a streaming encoder and decoder.
Working with external warnings and diagnostics in NVIM.
Tuesday, 20 January 2026 Tags: nvim, rtlCompilers and tools in the VLSI and RTL world often produce a very large number of warnings and errors when run. I was interested in being able to quickly see all and navigate these diagnostics directly in (Neo)Vim.
This is easily achievable using the :make command and compiler plugins, or by
manually generating diagnostics with a lua script.
Managing project-specific NVIM configuration.
Monday, 19 January 2026 Tags: nvimWhile my neovim configuration works out of the box for most of my projects, I have increasingly encountered situations where I need to adjust certain aspects on a per-project basis.
As with anything related to neovim configuration there are about 50 different ways this can be achieved, and because neovim is usually configured with executable code instead of declarative config files, a few gotchas that might not be immediately obvious.
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