Aditya Verma — ~/notesField notes, write-ups and postmortems from a systems & backend developer.https://aditya-verma.me/en-usGPIO as a state machine: bare-metal ESP32 in C vs Rusthttps://aditya-verma.me/notes/esp32-registers/https://aditya-verma.me/notes/esp32-registers/Flash an LED the hard way — registers, datasheets, and what Rust adds (and costs) at the metal.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat a compositor actually is (and why I run niri)https://aditya-verma.me/notes/why-niri/https://aditya-verma.me/notes/why-niri/Compositors, Wayland, X11, and the odd scroll-everything compositor I ended up defaulting to.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTVersion your brain: dotfiles as infrastructurehttps://aditya-verma.me/notes/dotfiles-infra/https://aditya-verma.me/notes/dotfiles-infra/Why config files belong in git, how I structure mine, and the niri/KDE split.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTA TUI with zero curses: raw C and termioshttps://aditya-verma.me/notes/tui-without-curses/https://aditya-verma.me/notes/tui-without-curses/Notes from writing tonarchy — an interactive installer where the UI is escape codes and /dev/tty.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT