Xander Cesari
@merriman.industries
Car enthusiast, software enthusiast, software on cars enthusiast
This account (Tranquil PDS), my Tangled repos (knot), and my Tangled CI runner (spindle) are now hosted on a PC in my living room
July 20, 2026 at 3:15 AM
This account (Tranquil PDS), my Tangled repos (knot), and my Tangled CI runner (spindle) are now hosted on a PC in my living room
I wonder if accountants feel the same way about abacuses as mechies feel about calipers or programmers feel about vintage computers
June 18, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I wonder if accountants feel the same way about abacuses as mechies feel about calipers or programmers feel about vintage computers
All of my projects are just a node, a port, and an edge wearing a trenchcoat
crates.io/crates/npe-g...
crates.io/crates/npe-g...
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
crates.io
June 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
All of my projects are just a node, a port, and an edge wearing a trenchcoat
crates.io/crates/npe-g...
crates.io/crates/npe-g...
Software is great but I missed this kind of engineering
June 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Software is great but I missed this kind of engineering
I love my Framework 13 and I'm definitely getting one of the new 13 Pros but right now I'm having a lot of fun upgrading this old T480S into the ultimate Linux distro hopper!
April 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I love my Framework 13 and I'm definitely getting one of the new 13 Pros but right now I'm having a lot of fun upgrading this old T480S into the ultimate Linux distro hopper!
I really hope these are also hosted on progressively less standard infra, with the last on a Raspberry Pi and a solar panel talking through a modem
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April 13, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I really hope these are also hosted on progressively less standard infra, with the last on a Raspberry Pi and a solar panel talking through a modem
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Definitely not me getting distracted from an embedded project then spending weeks building tools for declaratively packing and deploying LittleFS images and all but forgetting the original project I was working on
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
GitHub - MerrimanInd/littlefs-tooling-rs: Tooling for packing and unpacking directories into LittleFS binaries then shipping them to embedded devices
Tooling for packing and unpacking directories into LittleFS binaries then shipping them to embedded devices - MerrimanInd/littlefs-tooling-rs
github.com
March 23, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Definitely not me getting distracted from an embedded project then spending weeks building tools for declaratively packing and deploying LittleFS images and all but forgetting the original project I was working on
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
We can all agree that markdown is excellent
March 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
We can all agree that markdown is excellent
Do I know anyone who's worked with LittleFS for embedded devices? I'm writing some Rust tooling for building and deploying it and would appreciate hearing about how others have used it!
March 2, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Do I know anyone who's worked with LittleFS for embedded devices? I'm writing some Rust tooling for building and deploying it and would appreciate hearing about how others have used it!
I've been in "weird esoteric industry protocol running on RS-232" purgatory for months now. SCPI, VE.Direct, now ProXR. I've implemented them all in Python, some in Rust. I think I have to keep building these until I atone for some kind of sin?
March 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I've been in "weird esoteric industry protocol running on RS-232" purgatory for months now. SCPI, VE.Direct, now ProXR. I've implemented them all in Python, some in Rust. I think I have to keep building these until I atone for some kind of sin?
There are three rules of coding with agents:
1. Keep them away from bright sunlight
2. Never get them wet
3. Never feed them after midnight
1. Keep them away from bright sunlight
2. Never get them wet
3. Never feed them after midnight
February 27, 2026 at 7:12 PM
There are three rules of coding with agents:
1. Keep them away from bright sunlight
2. Never get them wet
3. Never feed them after midnight
1. Keep them away from bright sunlight
2. Never get them wet
3. Never feed them after midnight
Building a CLI is just repeatedly naming things, aka the hardest thing in programming
February 18, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Building a CLI is just repeatedly naming things, aka the hardest thing in programming
The pile of ethics books discarded on the sidewalk in San Francisco is more foreboding and ominous than I wanted to see
February 6, 2026 at 3:50 AM
The pile of ethics books discarded on the sidewalk in San Francisco is more foreboding and ominous than I wanted to see
Reposted by Xander Cesari
Started at "why is my WiFi so slow?" and now I'm recompiling the Linux kernel
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Started at "why is my WiFi so slow?" and now I'm recompiling the Linux kernel
Today's mini deep-dive was into the NTP Pool and now it's a life goal to someday run an NTP server
www.ntppool.org/en/join.html
www.ntppool.org/en/join.html
pool.ntp.org: Join the NTP Pool!
www.ntppool.org
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Today's mini deep-dive was into the NTP Pool and now it's a life goal to someday run an NTP server
www.ntppool.org/en/join.html
www.ntppool.org/en/join.html
Chipping away at language tooling for the most annoying and esoteric config files I hate to love and love to hate
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
GitHub - MerrimanInd/tree-sitter-dbc: A CAN DBC grammar for tree-sitter
A CAN DBC grammar for tree-sitter. Contribute to MerrimanInd/tree-sitter-dbc development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Chipping away at language tooling for the most annoying and esoteric config files I hate to love and love to hate
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
github.com/MerrimanInd/...
One release is all you need
January 7, 2026 at 5:05 AM
One release is all you need
It's 2026 and I'm not afraid to say it to the whole world. Cancel me if you want, I have to speak my truth.
Light mode is good and is the appropriate choice in many times and places.
Light mode is good and is the appropriate choice in many times and places.
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
It's 2026 and I'm not afraid to say it to the whole world. Cancel me if you want, I have to speak my truth.
Light mode is good and is the appropriate choice in many times and places.
Light mode is good and is the appropriate choice in many times and places.
I just switched my desktop environment from GNOME to COSMIC in minutes. Deleted a dozen lines of text, added a half dozen lines of text, and rebooted. NixOS is absolutely overpowered.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I just switched my desktop environment from GNOME to COSMIC in minutes. Deleted a dozen lines of text, added a half dozen lines of text, and rebooted. NixOS is absolutely overpowered.
Happy year of the linux desktop
(Like every other time this has been said, this post will age wonderfully I'm sure)
(Like every other time this has been said, this post will age wonderfully I'm sure)
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Happy year of the linux desktop
(Like every other time this has been said, this post will age wonderfully I'm sure)
(Like every other time this has been said, this post will age wonderfully I'm sure)
I happened upon this blog post about why mid-century industrial design uses such interesting color palettes. I LOVE mid-century aesthetics and color palettes like this (inspiration behind the Merriman Industries brand) so this was serious Xander-nip.
bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man...
bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man...
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green
bethmathews.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I happened upon this blog post about why mid-century industrial design uses such interesting color palettes. I LOVE mid-century aesthetics and color palettes like this (inspiration behind the Merriman Industries brand) so this was serious Xander-nip.
bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man...
bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man...
A few days of late nights later and now I'm daily driving NixOS
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A few days of late nights later and now I'm daily driving NixOS