Barna Mink

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Selected projects:

microarcade: tiny hardware retro gaming platform (esp32/FreeRTOS); written completely from scratch for performance incl hardware drivers, low-level graphics library and CLI sprite & font editor.

libb: C library of various useful data structures, utilities & helpers I developed over the years and which I use in most of my (non-embedded) personal projects.

rlctail: stream Reddit comments live in the terminal. Great for watching soccer and following world events. Multi-threaded implementation ensures smooth comment scrolling even if Reddit API is choppy.

Simple/Sane/? Library System: improve on the experience of selecting what to listen to next. SLS contains a C implementation the Spotify’s REST API. I run SLS on one of my Raspberry Pi servers.


Domino’s House: [woodworking] I went viral (one, two, three, four, five) for building houses for the feral cats in our backyard. Due to high interest I published the plans for the original house for anyone to use.




About Me:

Welcome to my page!

I’m an experienced engineer and engineering leader from Central Europe (though I have lived in California for quite a long time now). I have been coding since I was 12 years old and have over 30 years of experience. In the tech industry I mostly worked as a UNIX/Linux systems programmer with an emphasis on C development on large servers and I also have an avid interest in coding for and running tiny devices / MCUs / SBCs as well as retrocomputing (mostly writing assembly for the MOS6502/6510).

During my career in the digital music & media tech space, I wrote and co-wrote several highly performant & large scale software systems and also inherited several complex existing systems for optimization / fixing up. If you have played music on a mobile phone, car stereo, smart speaker or computer, chances are high that some of my code was executed on your behalf. U.S. Patents: US-10885109-B2, US-11487814-B2, US-11954149-B2.

Outside of work, I’m an accomplished woodworker and a rescue dog, -cat and -bird dad. I am active in animal rescue, especially community cat TNR efforts.

This is a fast static website, created with vim, pandoc and make and hosted on Neocities.

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