Jeff McBride Blog

Today I learned: initializing a rust static with None does NOT ensure a zero initialized variable!

With 2025 coming to a close, I'm going through the annual tradition of reflecting on, and summarizing the year.

Adding a simple feature to zencan brought up some thorny topics.

I've finally published v0.0.1 of zencan to crates.io.

This is a followup to Creating linux images for the M5Stack CoreMP135 with Buildroot.

This post is about the M5Stack CoreMP135: why I like it, and a tutorial about how to use buildroot to create a linux image for it.

I recently finished building a pair of bedside tables in a stlye I've used a couple times before.

Two weeks ago, I posted about a Rust CANOpen Stack I was working on.

I've been kicking around an idea for a while now to create a CAN bus communication stack for Rust, and now it is finally taking shape.

This is for future-me, and for future internet searchers.

How to poll an async function manually, and then use the rust compiler as a finite-state-machine generator Introduction An interesting thing about Rust async functions is that what that async keyword actually does is tell the compiler to automatically con…