This looks useful but it is more dangerous than it looks as the voltage at the XT60 will vary from 5V to 28V (or somewhere in between) depending on what USB-C device you plug it into. I think it was designed for a charger (wide input tolerance). @cursedconnector candidate

This future is wild. Casually having my agent prototype and validate an Iridium ACARS decoder (from RTL SDR) on ESP32 P4. It’s got 2048 FFT done on one cpu, validated on real data. Now it’s validating the USB throughput, and later it’ll make a decision with me about the need for a secondary P4. While I do other things…

Wiring up a surplus 2kWh battery on the weekend w/BMS and safety, and realized why cars ended up using the chassis for one conductor. So many wires…so much crimping. I have resisted doing the same with my enclosure…with effort as it’s aluminium.

For fun I decided to get tinyGS running on nRF52 (from ESP32). The Heltec T114 board doesn’t have WiFi so…of course I chose TCP over Thread(!). The memory is constrained and Arduino Thread support is limited so it turned into a rewrite, but these days that’s no big deal. More news when I connect the antenna, but it’s notionally working :)

Reading, of all things, Amazon reviews for T50 stainless steel staples and the bifurcation of reviews between “great” and “not stainless, broken, terrible” is so distinct I am going to assume terrible human beings stuffing boxes with leftover junk staples and returning them. TIL also there are Monel metal stables too, surely a better candidate. This happened to my mother with a “smart bulb” which was not, same brand, dumb bulb. Nearly drove us mad trying to activate it.

Wtf @claudeai “Honestly? I fabricated IDs 1 and 2. I only had a rough approximation for ID 0, and I made up the others to look plausible.”

I am not sold on the entirety of Pluribus, but the drone rubbish sequence in “Got Milk” was genius. Nice work.

The Twitter -> X.com 2FA Security Key migration...what a fuckup that didn't need to be. Locked out of my account on my phone, not because my account was locked but because it relentlessly popped up "just upgrade your security key" which cannot be bypassed. Sadly my security key is several thousand kilometres away, but I can neither remove it, upgrade it, or bypass this as the feckfilled popup will..pop up...every time both on mobile-web and iOS app. Cancelling just restarts the loop. Yes I tried to race it to get to settings, and failed. Also tried going offline, but then settings stops working properly. Finally fixed hours later on my return to my MacBook, and either sanity (and/or related DAU-nosedive) caused them to revert there or it's only mobile. WTF. Lock people out of social media because *one* of their 2FA methods needs tweaking, what a product customer journey that would be. They might as well have just deleted it if the need was this strong.

The translation, and even better auto-translation, here has let me glimpse the polite, mutually supportive, and seriously innovative collection of robotic engineers from Japan. I can’t participate but much respect, and I will learn from you all.

Great initiative from @SendCutSend to do their community college video series to upskill all makers. I suspect dark-launched, but looks great so far and will help me on my CAD journey. On YT and their website, youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

Idea of the day, poorly formed: IETF type RFCs but for AI tooling. First real one “what should the file be called with the instructions for the clanker”. Clearly not CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md but purpose-related.

The aliens are going to shake their noodlely appendages when they realize we know the direction of electron flow but collectively decided it was too much effort to change. What other practicality vs reality conflicts do we maintain?

Bollard Closed Top with Band and Eyelet, 42" High $252.09 each 57895T116 Who amongst us doesn't enjoy a good bollard?

Interested that my VPP under Nectr chose this day to take 5.6kwh from my battery, then found this(good on them): Prices in QLD and NSW rise into the four digit mark on Thu 10th Apr 2025 - wattclarity.com.au/articles/…

Dear Mr @WilliamShatner today I saw you in Judgment at Nuremberg, although you were hard to spot in your younger form. You’ve bridged era’s of actors and actresses, did you meet Marlene Dietrich? If you’ve told the story in one of your books, tell me which? Thanks for the ongoing entertainment, here and elsewhere.

Wondering how far away we are from a social network that filters all replies through an AI mod that matches your preferences and normalizes the distribution to kill the trolls. A “what I consider spam” filter. It magnifies the risk of the echo chamber to be nearly 100% though, there is that :)