So we have a LOT on the go right now trying to stay ahead of the chip shortage. I'd like to say that it's coming to an end, but we all know that's not true. Some chips have started showing up on sites like DigiKey only to almost immediately disappear within days. It's shocking and it's probably still going to be late 2023 before this settles down.

Wow, what a journey; to start with the Beaglebone finding big-endian worked fairly well to find out its completely broken on Buffee and that big endian is completely unsupported on the AM3358, something the people at TI will repeat in their support forums again, and again, and again. But it's all a lie and big endian does work … perfectly. So what's up?

As a follow-up to my original thoughts on open sourcing, I am pleased to announce that we've reopened the source code for PJIT as well as merged and closed the private repository. The one and only repository for PJIT can be found here.. PJIT will remain open-source forever but also only non-commercial use.

With Buffee sort of languishing in the wind, I took a few hours to slap together another board to ensure my PCB routing skills don't get rusty. Instead of a CPU accelerator or anything like that, this is going back to our original Amiga Replacement Project and prodiving DIP and PLCC sides replacements for all the custom and insanely difficult to get custom chips. First up is Gary, or as we call him, Gary Zander.