Notices by emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse), page 3

self-care is deleting a long-abandoned project because it starts with the same several letters as a directory you cd into often and it breaks tab completion

"wtf why is my thing immediately hard faulting on boot"

"oh hm maybe it's because it's trying to execute code from somewhere that isn't even existent memory, and also my stack pointer is the bytes '\x7cELF'"

I applaud attempts to make open source things but I am begging people to come up with better names for them than just prefixing open/free/libre to a generic term

@ailurux @jacqueline I don't know what came over me

@foone I got halfway through doing this with my phone before realizing I had no way to photograph it

@foone sudden desire to get a bunch of people who are neither gamers nor computer people, and have them guess if things like "wireshark" or "fortnite" are the names of video games or nerd tools

throw "rust" in there as a trick question too

periodic reminder to put test pads on your boards so you don't have to do shit like this

#electronics #theWorkshop

anyway it has been 0 days since some weird I2C issue in one of my projects turned out to be "this line is always low because you forgot to put a pullup resistor on it you dummy"

why isn't that just a thing I2C bus-driving devices have built in

did you know: stm32f103 lets you configure io pins as "i2c, but push-pull"

this does not work and will produce extremely surprising oscilloscope output, but it lets you do it

is there a replacement term we like for master/slave in the sense of I2C/SPI devices that are/aren't driving the bus? I haven't heard one yet.

(bonus points if it uses the same first letters, because "MISO" makes me think of delicious soup, but that's not a requirement)

"Five bits of immediate data, bits A0 to A3"

this is a good datasheet

becoming a youtuber solely so companies will send me expensive tools for free

I have completed the Large Shelf Array and my partner has populated it with cat drawings

#woodworking

@enoch_exe_inc @lanodan quicksandsort (for each element, if element < previous element, remove element and toss it into the nearest quicksand)

cursed things I have typed on autopilot: #!DOCTYPE HTML

@lain there once was a shape called AT
but it's now quite old, you'll agree
so it was extended,
embiggened, amended,
and prefixed with EEEE.

@engarneering @billyjoebowers even the expansion of that one ("GNU's not Unix") is ridiculous

the defining feature of our thing is that it isn't quite the thing you wanted. we tried our best though

the reason I was looking at motherboard form factors is because I'm sending off a motherboard I'm not using to a friend and he'll need to find his own case for it

it's not even EATX, it turns out, it's EE-ATX

Enhanced Extended Advanced Technology Extended

there was once a motherboard form factor called AT, "Advanced Technology"

then it got replaced with ATX, "Advanced Technology Extended"

then that wasn't big enough for some motherboards and so there's also EATX, "Extended Advanced Technology Extended"

computer people are so good at naming things

@lanodan I mean, yes, I assumed that just meant I was Not The Target Audience