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chendo

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Systems enthusiast, problem solver. I like games, photography, home automation, bouldering, 3D printing, and building random shit.

Co-founder at Assembly Four. Creator of https://shortcat.app. Previously ran a Mastodon instance with 400k+ users ๐Ÿ“ˆ

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#3dprinting #photography #infra #ruby #homeautomation

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stroughtonsmith, to random
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How long before we start trying to cram an LLM into a space probe to act as a potential interactive digital ambassador containing the wealth of human knowledge? A time capsule that could encapsulate and preserve our culture, languages, history for thousands of years, fired into the cosmos. It is almost certainly going to happen

chendo,
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@stroughtonsmith nothing could possibly go wrong with this

petehare, to random
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Another to add to the wall! Not going to help my family understand what I do for work yet, but getting closerโ€ฆ

chendo,
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@petehare that's super cool!

frankreiff, to random
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Does anybody have any experiences with using Apple's in-app subscriptions for an AppKit app? I understand that third party frameworks like RevenueCat are unavailable.. so how hard is it to implement yourself and how much hassle is it day-to-day release-to-release?

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.

chendo,
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@revenuecat @tapforms @frankreiff is there a benefit of using RevenueCat if I only have an iOS app and have no plans to do cross platform?

decryption, to random
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any of you nerds seen an ESP-based relay board that'll handle 24V AC and also take input from a physical switch?

chendo,
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@decryption hmmm, maybe https://www.shelly.com/en/products/shop/shelly-uni?

chendo,
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@decryption ahhh okay.. I know the other Shellys can handle 24VDC, so you could probably use a rectifier to turn the AC into DC, then switch the 24VAC?

chendo,
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@decryption The Shelly Plus 1 has a separate terminal for its power source and the switchable relay, see https://kb.shelly.cloud/knowledge-base/shelly-plus-1#ShellyPlus1(SNSW-001X16EU)-Basicwiringdiagrams

Oddly enough, it doesn't specify 24V AC but I don't see why it wouldn't work considering it's a relay

chendo,
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@PCOWandre @decryption hmmm yeah neons could do that. I use the RGBWs to switch 240w of LEDs and theyโ€™ve been fine

chendo, to random
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Squarespace has taken a 6kb PNG and made it 1.4MB by trying to "optimise" and resizing it.

Is there an easy to use website builder that isn't shit???

chendo,
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@richiekhoo yeah, I've used Webflow as well but it's even more annoying to use for other reasons.. like editing text and content is suuuuuper painful in Webflow

chendo, to random
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wtf. Docker compose supports health checks, but has nothing to automatically restart the container when the healthchecks fail.

chendo, to random
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An amazingly detailed series on how someone implemented their own GPS receiver: https://axleos.com/building-a-gps-receiver-part-1-hearing-whispers/

jpm, to random
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Is this going to set my house on fire if I put it in my smoke alarm?

chendo,
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@jpm did it work? Rechargeable 9v would be great

chendo, to random
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I just saw someone ash a cigarette into their own mouth and ate it. Stay classy, Sydney

chendo,
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@dgoodlad oh I forgot you were also in Sydney!

hailey, to random
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i assume low battery mode on ios is meant to be bad or something, but as far as i'm aware it's a "give me more battery for free" switch with no downside that i notice

why don't they make the whole phone out of the stuff low battery mode's made of

chendo,
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@hailey it limits animation speeds, and is generally more aggressive with anything that uses more power. ProMotion (120hz) is disabled, background refresh, etc etc

chendo, to random
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I just marked my 43,000+ emails as read.

jensimmons, to CSS
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Dear people who make websites,

Now that Safari 17.4 is available, what other new web technology โ€” HTML, CSS, JS, Web API, media support, etc โ€” would you like to see supported in Safari next?

Whatโ€™s most needed?
What will you use it for?
Or how will it help your team serve your users?
Tell me a storyโ€ฆ

chendo,
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@jensimmons device pixel ratio capping, specifically around using XXXw descriptors in img srcsets. We use this to serve appropriately sized photos to the user, no matter their effective viewport, however currently a viewport of 400px at 3x DPR would result in the browser requesting an image ~1200px wide, which is a waste. Our tests show thereโ€™s not much discernible difference on photos past approx 1.5x, so we currently work around this by using optimumx on lazysizes.js

chendo,
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@jensimmons sadly no offical spec exists for this just yet. We canโ€™t use 1x, 2x etc to cap the resolution easily, because this would require using <source> tags to target viewport sizes, which markup kind of painful to deal with

hugo, to random
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Stumbled across Liquex last week, looks like it solves a bunch of problems I had with string templating in Elixir.. https://github.com/handlecommerce/liquex

chendo,
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@hugo we've been using n8n which is rather flexible

chendo, to random
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I hate flying.

I'm trying to leave Canberra and I'm on my 3rd boarding pass (bumped due to weight, then other flight had engineering issues), and we've been stuck on the plane because weather in Melbourne is likely to cause even more delays.

benschwarz, to random
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This is going to sound slightly controversial to some, but; React is crap

Pure hot steaming turd API design, weird camelCase attributes, useEffect(!!) and other delights.

Server-side react was supposed to save the day and remove all the main thread gunk, but surprise surprise, it didnโ€™t. It made existing API even worse.

Thankfully, react is now pretty much a one vendor horse race, and while a large portion of developers got dazzled by lights and marketing, the web platform got much better

chendo,
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@apocraphilia @benschwarz how is โ€œSPA Reactโ€ not client side JS? Did SPA stop meaning โ€œSingle Page Applicationโ€ at some point?

chendo, to random
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I had a weird moment earlier today when I went to my HASS instance and it had time travelled like 2 years ago... turns out the old copy on the NAS was still set to automatically boot on startup (recent powercycle for UPS reasons), and the Zerotier IP I use for HASS went to that old VM.

I shut it down, deleted the VM on the NAS, and everything went back to normal lol

chendo,
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@voltagex when it works, itโ€™s great.. but my god itโ€™s a pain in the ass

chendo, to random
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Our unusual traffic level alerts went off earlier today when the Superb Owl happened. I don't recall this alert going off for last year's Superb Owl

chendo,
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@decryption ahhh that makes sense!

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