phooky @phooky@octodon.social
Hardware, hackerspaces, retrocomputing, sketching and occasional weird tasks. Personal toots @phooky
A simple browser-based method for making those cool signal diagrams and packet diagrams that you see in textbooks http://wavedrom.com/tutorial.html
This timelapse of random MDT-9100 fiddling is somehow deeply satisfying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rx5FMr2G_Y
*shakes, breathes heavily*
I HAD TO LEARN COBOL IN HIGH SCHOOL
*passes out*
looking for a non polar 3.9uF electrolytic cap (to replace one in an old CRT unit). anyone know where to find such a weird beast?
my aesthetic is youtube chill-hop stream visual loops of anime people doing homework or watching rain
why hodl when you can slel
How it feels like talking about Mastodon on Reddit
so device tree overlays are moving from linux to u-boot? that seems... crazy?
working phrase "web scale" into casual conversation
hey everyone, @Penpen and I made a new Mastodon instance for discussing #automotive and #engineering related stuff! check it out if that sounds like your jam :)
#car #cars #mechanical #mechanicalengineering #literallywhichhashtagsshouldievenuse
see if in 1990 you'd told me "in the future you'll be able to study at a university that only exists in cyberspace" I would have been all "sign me up!", but it turns out
« This program won at Tic-Tac-Toe by figuring out how to remotely crash its opponents' computers, causing them to forfeit. https://t.co/cNCUuHTluT »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/974132303315136513
Quick cut of early work on my toddler's favorite toy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VheMcCCqa4
submitted a PR to the upstream broker project; it's a one-line fix. curious how long it will take to worm its way into a release
The MQTT broker included in Home Assistant is awful and I don't know whether it makes more sense to fix it or move to Mosquitto.
A lot I guess will come down to what the HA dev community looks like...
true story: my aunt in law has a gold record for "The Final Countdown" hanging in her office.
today i gave my toddler a slinky
it is the best
