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bench-notes

A personal digital garden. This is a notes log, not a polished blog. Written primarily for my own future reference — war stories, debugging notes, cross-domain pattern spotting, and small project writeups. If anyone else finds something useful here, that's a bonus.

Many of these notes are drafted, refined, and formatted with AI assistance. The ideas, experiences, and hard-won lessons are mine — the polish is collaborative.

Folder Structure

• rf/ — RF electronics, instrument debugging, GPIB/SCPI notes, hardware war stories
• software/ — General software debugging, language notes, tooling, build systems
• cross-domain/ — Notes connecting patterns across two or more unrelated areas (e.g. seeing the same bug shape in RF calibration and Python async code)
• projects/ — Short writeups linking to standalone repos (luhn-polyglot, etc.)
• _templates/ — Note template for creating new entries

Publishing

This repo is published to GitHub Pages via Quartz. The Quartz source lives in quartz/ and the content folders above are mapped into it.

How to Add a Note

1. Copy _templates/note-template.md to the appropriate folder
2. Rename it to something descriptive (e.g. rf/2026-07-scpi-timeout-debug.md)
3. Fill in the frontmatter:
   • title — short descriptive title
   • date — creation date (YYYY-MM-DD)
   • tags — relevant tags
   • domain — rf / software / cross-domain / projects
   • status — seedling, growing, or evergreen
4. Write the note. Plain markdown, no special formatting required.
5. Add wikilinks [[other-note]] to connect related notes.