ratkins

ratkins, 10 months ago to BurningMan

With much relief I declare the control box electronics of the Technocolour Dreamcoat v3 (beta) complete. I now have a #Pixelblaze expander board in a 3D printed control box with two buttons and a pot which register in the Pixelblaze UI. Double check what your pull-down resistors are pulling down to, kids! Now it’s a simple (!) matter of software… #BurningMan

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

When are the best pomegranates? I thought the season was more like October, but they’ve just reappeared at the juice place at the markets. I want as rich and flavourful as possible (to make grenadine.)

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Re: LRT (Last Re-Toot?), when Microsoft bought GitHub there was a chance they might have enshittified it. It doesn’t seem like they’re doing so, but a benefit of that might have been breaking git’s ubiquity—which I’m convinced only exists because GitHub doesn’t suck too much.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Is there any way to tell Reddit to only send me notifications on replies to my posts or comments and not for random posts to a sub I happened to interact with recently? Can’t find it in settings.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Holy shit, XT90 connectors are huge and AWG 10 wire is even huge-er.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

God damn it I wish Reddit and Twitter would stop with the needy “engagement” push notifications. Yeah sure, I posted in that sub last week to ask a specific question I don’t care about anything else going on there.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Hobbyking’s catalog is incredibly irritating. “Hey, here’s a huge list of all the stuff you can’t buy!”

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

I’m still looking for a nice (rubbery, not plasticey) set of ~30cm figure 8 power cables. Europlug, UK, US and Australian would do. The ones which used to come with the Microsoft Surface would be perfect but I can’t see how I can buy them as a spare part.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Why do I get two notifications for every Mastodon like?

(I know there is some kind of technical reason, this is more of a political question.)

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

If I wanted a product which was “Miro, but doesn’t suck” what would that be?

(Miro’s “Suck” is: too many features I don’t want or need and it nags me about new ones every time I launch it, slow, every time I click on something and try and move it I end up moving the thing under it and destroying whatever form the board is meant to have, I can’t actually draw on it (despite owning an iPad and Pencil). It’s trying to be a whiteboard and failing miserably.)

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Well, fuck.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

If a German dude is scoping out a club to see if there’s any hot chicks, is that a weib check?

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

@nicklockwood How would you model a box with round-beveled edges? Like a roundrect, but 3D.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Can you buy large capacity (~5000mAh, 4S/14.4V) LiFePO4 remote control car batteries these days? Hobbyking only have low capacity ones, apparently just for transmitters.

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

I want to subscribe to various Substacks, but I want to read them when I’m reading social media (in the evening, with a cocktail) not when I read my email (in the morning, with a coffee.) Without making a whole project out of it, is there an easy way to get an ActivityPub feed of my substack subscriptions I can subscribe to in Ivory?

ratkins, 10 months ago to random

Why, all of a sudden, does it take over forty hours for Scoot to fly me from Sydney to Berlin? They’ve done it in 26 before. And they get me the other way in about that still!

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

I have a Bluesky invite for any curious mutuals, btw.

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

Is the client-server ActivityPub protocol the same as the server-server ActiviryPub protocol? Like, can I use Ivory with Calckey?

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

Attempting to do user research synthesis via Meet and Miro and it’s terrible compared to doing it in person at a whiteboard. The tools just aren’t there yet.

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

Apple’s Translate app mystifies me. I have absolutely no idea how to navigate its interface.

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

So hey sometimes people are smart and insightful and sometimes they’re really fucking wrong about something. A consistent mistake we make is to expect perfection from people because they’re well known.

And sometimes they post drunk.

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

Your regular reminder that most people saying “Office work is terrible!” actually mean “Long car commutes to shittily designed and maintained offices are terrible!”

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

Utterly unhinged Bluesky takes.

ratkins, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to BurningMan

Grinds my gears that the only practical venue for planning a #BurningMan camp is—still, in 2023—Facebook Groups.

ratkins, 11 months ago to random

If Meta bridges Instagram to ActivityPub, does that mean I get to follow Instagram accounts without having to use their first-party app and see their ads? Seems like a win to me.