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New comment by techman001 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

techman001 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:19:42 +0000

I'm just starting the design of a cmsis-svd-lsp Language Server application that can be used with any LSP capable editor to provide legal CMSIS names for their STM32xx MCU registers and bitfields during coding, simply by using the SVD file for their model. MIT licensed.

It will include the correct name, absolute address, bit offset and width plus a bitfield description.

This is needed for bare metal coding (in any language) without using the massive monolithic systems from the manufacturers.

I've previously made a Mecrisp-Stellaris Forth Language Server as a test run and it works fine with helix editor.

https://github.com/techman00172/schematics/blob/main/mecrisp...

New comment by techman001 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

techman001 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:58:11 +0000

I vibe coded two apps, I program but not in the languages used in the apps. I'm utterly clueless about Lua and Python. Both apps work fine and I use them all the time myself.

1. A Mecrisp-Stellaris Forth LSP for the Helix editor (Python) 2. A CMSIS-SVD Sqlite3 search and paste pop-up window for Neovim when editing STM32xx embedded Forth programs. (Lua)

https://mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io/

Mecrisp-Stellaris Forth Deep Dive Podcast

techman001 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:12:58 +0000

AI dual-host voices with a focus on the FLOSS community support that extended its functionality since it was EOL'd in 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84LsH8SMQE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423361

Points: 2

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Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast

techman001 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:50:08 +0000

See my youtube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGYWkJUAl8E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377821

Points: 8

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New comment by techman001 in "Furs: Eliminate the Forth CMSIS memory tax"

techman001 — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:07:37 +0000

This is the Fossil project repo: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc/f...

Furs: Eliminate the Forth CMSIS memory tax

techman001 — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:05:18 +0000

I generated this introductory talk (male/female co-host) of my FURS project by getting the AI to read my very mixed codebase and then generate the audio file. FURS was totally created by me before AI even existed, it's 100% human made.

This is a whole new level of WTF!!! for me. The AI has understood EVERYTHING and explained it in ways that I never could because I'm an electronics guy.

If you're into embedded engineering with STM32xx you may be interested in the following.

Download the following URL to checkout the 22 minute Podcast and tell me it's not interesting ?

https://github.com/techman00172/schematics/blob/main/Eliminate_the_Forth_CMSIS_memory_tax.m4a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334572

Points: 2

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New comment by techman001 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

techman001 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:58:50 +0000

I've just released my beta of FURS.

FURS does for Forth, what headers do for C, namely provide all the embedded configuration information inside a Cortex-M MCU, for the up to 100 inbuilt peripherals.

Without this data, neither C nor Forth (or any other language) have any clue about how to use the peripherals.

FURS does this by intercepting the Forth user source as it's uploaded to the on-chip compiler and transforming it into language the MCU inherently understands.

The Forth user source code is not altered in any way.

I've used the Fossil DCVS for the entire FURS project so that all the flowcharts, pictures, code, user doc, trouble-ticket, wiki ... everything is contained in the ONE FILE, under 5MB.

This one file gives you a web server so all you need is a browser to easily view all the above from the main menu.

Howto: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc/f...