Andrew Kesterson

"Love God. Live Righteously. Die Well."
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# Current Plans and Recent Updates

2026-07-10 228 words

These days I’m mostly focused on my day job, which means I won’t publish a lot of personal code, but the good news is that most of my work is open source on Repo1, and you can follow me there.

- Learning embedded development. I’m working through a process that will take me through Arduino on ESP32, then into bare metal programming on an STM32 Nucleo board, then mastering advanced stuff like trusted security modules on STM32H5, then RTOS with more STM32, then FPGA programming on an Artyx. Along the way I’m experimenting with PIC microcontrollers and other embedded toys as well. I hope to complete this course by some time in 2027.
- Relaxing after a successful fire academy. The first half of every year is devoted to training firefighters in Marion County, Georgia. We just graduated 3 new support firefighters and 3 new suppression firefighters, so I’m taking a break from training for a while to focus on other things.
- Working on a tinyhouse for my oldest daughter. She has been very patient with me to complete this project, but I absolutely need to bear down and get this done. She deserves it, and besides, I promised.

My ~/.plan history is on the Starfort Source Vault.

# Musings

> You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only because your
> brakes are defective.

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