catholic implies anolic

computers

achievement unlocked: did firewall fuckery on a remote machine without locking myself out of anything

something terribly weird going on with my work laptop and it's probably not bad ram (i ran memtest86+ for a while yesterday and it found nothing)

do i debug it further, or give up and request my fourth laptop from this employer

raising elephants is so utterly boring, that's why i touch computers instead

cursed thing I learned today: github markdown lets you do $\LaTeX$

found old picture of tiny deacon, please enjoy

hm, no, this isn't finding what i want

i want to try making a little light-up indicator to be viewed from the front of a pcb, with the led mounted on the back, and the front copper has letters or a symbol cut out of it so you'd see that part light up

all the reverse-mount leds i can find want me to make a hole and put pads around the hole, but afaik normal pcb manufacturing processes don't let you make a hole through everything *except* one layer of copper

does anyone make surface mount LEDs that are explicitly designed to be mounted upside down and shine through the board?

i have no idea what the search term for this would be

(edit: it's "reverse mount")

#electronics

qmk what are you doing

do not just pick a random usb device and try to put keyboard firmware on it

who do you think I am, @foone?

"why are so many of the buttons on this one not working", she wondered

maybe robot arm that plays a xylophone

I bought three shelves and each one came with one of these adorably tiny hammers, which are not heavy enough for the assembly step they are supposedly for

what silly hammer-based project should I use them for? wrong answers only

(I will probably keep one around as a machinist hammer)

`truncate table ... cascade;` is my favorite sql command, particularly when used on one of those tables that pretty much everything else depends on at least indirectly

"just make all the data go away, consequences be damned"

does anyone want the weird bag that comes attached to the top of 1990s hp oscilloscopes

i have no use for it but i'm having a sudden moment of fear that i will throw it away and then next week some fedi retrocomputing person will be looking for that exact bag to complete their collection of weird bags that come attached to the top of 1990s oscilloscopes, and get mad at me for throwing away such a rare find

it has been [0] days since i discovered open source software with a mandatory github dependency

(HACS, the home-assistant third-party-component installer thing)

*contemplates electricity*

#caturday #catsOfFedi

starting a company named Crime so i can tell people i'm a crime boss

living through a certain period of internet development + being a programming language nerd means i have to do a moment of semantic disambiguation every time i read "DSL"

a few years ago this happened to another person I know and I snickered at her at the time, I suppose this is karma