A lifetime ago, I delved into the ternary rabbit hole[1], developing a bunch of tools and math[2][3] for the adjacent problem ad-hoc (balanced) trinary bit twiddling in numbers encoded as binary, while retaining the ability to do fast arithmetic on the binary representation.

It's a fun rabbit hole. I'm glad it's (seemingly) finding some practical use cases.

[1] https://tunguska.sf.net

[2] http://nedopc.org/ternary/tunguska/math.tools.for.balanced.b...

[3] http://www.nedopc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=143

Also low key missing the days of special interest forums where you'd paste cool source code at people.