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Replying to @ajbauer
In this Washington neighborhood it was a tradition: throw some hamburgers against the wall, strangle a federal law enforcement official, then pack some classified documents to the tune of Frank Sinatra‘s “My Way.” But now the woke mob is trying to take that all away.
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Replying to @_initrd
We named him The Foreman; he’s a mounted deer inherited from a friend’s Bushwick apartment in ancient times. He lived on a century-old wooden post in our illegal loft for nearly a decade, where he resembled a factory foreman overseeing the floor (or in our case, the dance floor).
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Replying to @mr_rythom
I am! Helping my family with some stuff right now, but come next year I’m hoping it’ll be my home base for some epic road trips to points west.
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Replying to @josecastillo
as much as it’s all been, the truth is, the next two months are the cruxy bit. There are lots of moving parts for sure, but I have a plan to make it all happen. Optimistic.
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Wow: I’ve made it to Texas, and we’ve actually made it to September. My summer was a lot: I did things, I shipped things, I fulfilled my obligations; still, I’m sorry if I dropped the ball on any of our interactions. I’ve been trying to keep it together and succeeding (if barely)
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Using this road trip to catch up on podcasts, and there’s so much to love in this 74-second anecdote from Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos — especially his meditation at the very end on making your own creative work. https://overcast.fm/+EwEx1qKzE
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Replying to @Bornach0 and @sircoolio
What he lacks in conversation skills he makes up for with steadfastness.
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Replying to @helenleigh
I’m going! No talk from me this time tho.
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Replying to @frivolous_circs
I relocated to Texas a few months ago for family reasons — but the improved proximity for West Coast road trips is definitely on my mind!!
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Currently driving cross-country with the last pieces of my New York workshop (and with it, the last piece of kit I need to ship the september Sensor Watch boards). also took the opportunity to pick up The Foreman, who is riding shotgun and getting lots of compliments.
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
“How were the Great Lakes?” “Oh, they were great.”
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RT @theavalkyrie: New article: Using Python to vectorize artwork for PCBs
Learn how clever libraries can be used together to create artwor…
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Replying to @mycoliza
Not A Space Agency space agency
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Replying to @azonenberg
lol I have a master’s in photojournalism
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RT @sircoolio: We live among you. We look like every other Casio F-91W. But we are not like them. We tell global time. We know the temperat…
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Replying to @josecastillo
+2 Wand of Note-Taking
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rougelikes should have a “behind dominant ear” equipment slot. it’s crucial.
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Replying to @reedsturtevant and @paulg
wild guess: F-91W
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RT @ajbauer: Officer, I get that criminally prosecuting me for this DUI would be warranted. But would it be … wise?
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Replying to @SaguaroLynx
On the one hand: more.
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Replying to @josecastillo
(and a bigger battery)
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Replying to @josecastillo
well, shit. We’re gonna need a bigger panel.
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Replying to @ajbauer
green brandon
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RT @jasoncoon_: The @AlpenglowInd booth is sooo blinky! 🤩
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Replying to @MakeAugusta and @theavalkyrie
you know that only gets me more excited
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
the only software license that comes with a safe word
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Replying to @kfury
I’ve been on the lookout for an open source implementation of this; I desperately want to build a deeply accurate tide prediction watch face into Sensor Watch.
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Replying to @MakeAugusta and @GeekMomProjects
as a proponent of the one electron theory, I like to think of it as its ongoing sigh at having to take the long way around.
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it is difficult to overstate how little i give a shit about your software license pedantry
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Replying to @bigattichouse
there’s a folder called “books” that has The Great Gatsby formatted as the code expects; plain text with record separator characters at the chapter boundaries, and old school teletype codes to indicate bold face and italics. more details in this thread: https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1533111054703763462
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Replying to @bigattichouse
oh sure! I hadn’t put it out there yet but absolutely, have at! https://github.com/joeycastillo/OpenBookReader
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Replying to @bigattichouse
Publishing the design very, very soon; a lot on my plate, and I need some time to get the first 400 watch boards shipped. But soon.
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Replying to @bigattichouse
i fully imagine it would fail spectacularly and uproariously with an adversarial input. Right now my goal is to write a proof of concept that shows the hardware can do the job; as soon as I release the code, my first order of business will be opening two dozen issues on it. 😬
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Replying to @josecastillo
Y’all. I cannot stress it enough. This is good.
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Replying to @IShJR
tiny book: https://mobile.twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1299369843695722496
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Replying to @IShJR
haha that’s Fake Cat, a relic of the loft era, and the one working revision of tiny book (which honestly might be worth revisiting at some point)
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Replying to @ajbauer
I think I need a sentence diagram for this one.
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Replying to @josecastillo
testing in the Cocoa pagination emulator. yes yes, I know the book is in copyright, but I’ve already bought it twice so I don’t feel that strongly about cracking this epub in particular.
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the code is not good. but in one late night of dreadful testing, I fixed pagination in the Open Book firmware. still I’d love for someone to take me to task over how bad this code is; I’d love for the book to run code that’s, y’know, “good” and all that. https://github.com/joeycastillo/libros/commit/14a02918d65ad9038d9970ea5c18cb1b69ecfc77
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Replying to @DHammarskjold
this is… the way?
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Replying to @josecastillo
actually, scratch that: make something people don’t want.
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Replying to @josecastillo
MAKE something people want.
make SOMETHING people want.
make something PEOPLE want.
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Replying to @josecastillo
(in my head I can pretend the optimism was justified at the time; alas.)
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back in New York, if briefly, and found a helpful message that past-joey left on the wall.
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Replying to @GeekMomProjects and @MakeAugusta
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Replying to @crulge
my vibe lately is, it’s okay to feel stoked. Like, yeah, I would have loved broader debt forgiveness, or a climate bill that aimed for more. But these things did do a lot, and I think it’s good to feel good about good things happening.
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LAST CALL for 20% off LCD FeatherWings! Promo code D8A340D5. I’m putting the store in vacation mode in 90 minutes and after that I’m leaving the state. https://www.tindie.com/products/joeycastillo/lcd-featherwing/
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Replying to @captainwonkish and @pimoroni
I’d be super down! Hey @pimoroni — I have 200+ LCD FeatherWings on hand, and capacity to make more. It seems popular; Adafruit sold out of the 50 I sent them within a couple of weeks. Hit me up! I would love to get this product in the hands of UK makers.
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Replying to @OyeItzama
so it’s not MIDI and it’s not currently in the firmware, but the hardware itself is very capable of playing chiptuney music. It can’t do chords or anything more than a single tone, but you could certainly aspire to this rendition of Rob Zombie’s “Dragula”: https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1454088418435211275
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Replying to @matseng
the number of spare brain cycles I’ve wasted on this…
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