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Replying to @josecastillo
copious amounts of coffee + wake ’n bake on WFMU is going to make this thing happen. share in the good morning vibes: http://www.radiorethink.com/tuner/?stationCode=wfmu&stream=hi
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Replying to @josecastillo
i swear it makes sense in my head
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Replying to @josecastillo
not even 8:00 yet and I’m stoked. Happy Friday, y’all!
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woke up at 5 to watch the launch, fully expecting to catch a few more hours of sleep after. then laying in bed my brain had to have an IDEA and fuck it, we’re doing this. sleep when ur dead.
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Let’s go to space. (Crew-2launch in a minute or so!) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
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gender reveal parties, soon https://twitter.com/Schreibernews/status/1385342004666765319
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Replying to @alexsotodev, @mattgolsen and @_initrd
And I’m so sorry I didn’t respond, it’s been a crazy busy time for me, but it’s a very cool project and I’m stoked to see y’alls progress!
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Replying to @mattk
when I’m not talking to Siri I mostly use @CARROT_app, which I appreciate because it doesn’t even pretend to have empathy.
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Going on a morning run; it’s spring, right? Asked Siri for a weather report.
“It’s cloudy and 37°.”
Made it as far as reaching for shorts before exclaiming, “37?!”
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Replying to @ElectronVillage and @moxie
Savage. I love it.
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Replying to @josecastillo
as a side note, this excerpt is from an @atlasobscura article about how Henry Ford may (or may not?) have saved Thomas Edison’s dying breath in a small glass test tube sealed with paraffin. Either way, it’s on display in Dearborn, Michigan. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/edisons-last-breath-henry-ford-museum
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keep at your side projects.
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It is good that there was accountability today, but let us not lose sight of what justice would look like. https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1384615692259975168
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Wow. https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1384326472337346560
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sir, this is a mattress firm https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1384177585039372289
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
I love homemade alfredo for the simplicity of its ingredients list. Mostly basic staples, and yet somehow much more than the sum of its parts. (looks delish!)
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RT @rohansingh: Tech friends, do I know anybody who works at Akamai? The Brooklyn IP of @nycmesh has been blacklisted so our members can’t…
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Replying to @MakeAugusta
worth mentioning that given Amazon’s problematic business practices, I think a lot of folks would view an Amazon gift card as less than worthless. like, I wouldn’t enter a drawing where I can’t ethically redeem the prize. Amazon is unique in this list for its toxic connotations.
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“We’re updating our Terms of Service. Pray we don’t update them any further.”
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Replying to @mr_rythom and @lukeoneil47
we’re not a country anymore, though. there is no shared horror because there is no shared identity, no foundation for empathy. I sense the threshold is, folks will change their minds when their immediate community is directly affected by a mass shooting, and not a day sooner.
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Replying to @x1sec and @ohsummit
The work-in-progress is up; still working out a few issues, but this repo has the version I’m testing now. No dealbreakers, but the items remaining:
* buttons are a bit hard to press
* QFN pad is too big
* still working out ideal capacitors for 32k crystal
https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch(original)
Replying to @cliffcheney and @audreydodgen
a couple years ago I fell butt-first down some stairs due to poor sock choices. nothing broke, I was fine, and when my doc checked me out she said offhand, “you’re young and healthy!” this stuck with me, because at some point in my life I won’t be young anymore…
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Replying to @ijk64 and @MicrochipMakes
The watch case and the LCD are stock, but all the electronics inside are replaced by a custom board: https://mobile.twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1380589833089806338
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Replying to @cliffcheney
It exists! JPL has the SpaceTime app, which does this for both Curiosity and Perseverance. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nasa-spacetime/id1553555795
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Replying to @arturo182
I think that an Mouser had prior written permission to transmit it to you. Of course, you did get permission before tweeting the screenshot to us… right?
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Replying to @audreydodgen
Dumb fall. Upset at myself over it. Might not be that bad, small chance it is worse; I’ll know more after an MRI (but of course I have to wait for my insurance company to preapprove it because capitalism)
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Replying to @josecastillo
code is not remotely ready for prime time, but that’s fine; the goal isn’t to polish this silly demo in bare-metal C, it’s to get a higher-level language running on the watch ASAP. alas, I broke my wrist this week, so I’m half the coder I usually am 😭
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I have big plans for the watch. but it could take a bit. In the meantime, I wanted to make a more interesting demo than a counter and LED. So: the Martian Watch. Shows the time on Terra (Earth) & Mars. One possible thing you could do with an ARM Cortex M0+ in a 33mm watch case :)
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Replying to @davedarko and @BlitzCityDIY
Vaccine record multipass, by @level2three! Such a fun design. Next I’m gonna see what we have in the paint drawer for color :) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4827336
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RT @ElectronVillage: Super proud to announce that our Mars Perseverance rover badge is now available on Tindie! 😊 You can get it pre-assemb…
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Replying to @hackerb9
Recurring meetings will outlive us all. (and even then, whatever species inherits the earth will be sitting there wondering, “wait was this supposed to be on zoom or meet?”)
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Asked Siri to make an appointment for tomorrow at 10:30 AM.
Siri: “I can make your appointment, but you have 288 appointments already scheduled. Should I schedule it anyway?”
I said sure, just to figure out what on earth she thought I said. Thanks, Siri. You nailed it.
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Replying to @mycoliza
this is the fox news headline if our former president had actually shot someone in the middle of fifth avenue
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This is a fascinating artifact. It’s not until the fifth paragraph that we get to “the President had been shot through the head,” after details of the name of the play, the delightful second act, and General Grant’s absence (owing to his having taken a late train from New Jersey) https://twitter.com/AdrianMorrow/status/1382416525685047297
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Replying to @tarahaelle, @MPaiMD, @cramersmd, @rubin_allergy, @ShikhaJainMD and @acweyand
This was great, Tara! When I talk to folks about this, would it be useful framing to say that this pause to get more data & develop treatment recommendations (if there is a link) makes the vaccine safer? Like, if we know what to look for / how to treat it, the risk is even lower.
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Replying to @nitz, @femtoduino and @Taki____
“The fix is simple. Contact the manufacturer.” Man bursts into tears. “But doctor… I am the manufacturer.”
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Last year my family wasn’t sure how to answer a question on the census, so we called my uncle who is (among other things) a leading expert on census data. Today he’s been nominated to run the U.S. Census Bureau, and we are beside ourselves with excitement. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/986612530/biden-to-make-historic-census-director-pick-with-latinx-statistician-rob-santos
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Replying to @willathome
I love this! Also, in searching for the poem earlier, I discovered that Williams also published a “Reply”, which takes the form of (and in fact likely is) a note from his wife, in response to This Is Just to Say: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/flossie.html
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Replying to @josecastillo
I love this little poetic microframework.
- I acknowledge what I’ve done.
- I acknowledge you would have preferred I hadn’t.
- “Forgive me.” (I’m not sorry.)
- I offer an explanation that erases you coldly from the narrative.
This poem is a shiv. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say
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this is just to say
we have appointed
the man
to our boardwho you were probably
hoping
would vanishForgive us
his personal style remains troubling
and we missed his wisdom
https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman(original)
Replying to @josecastillo
Definite 👍🏽 to Affinity Photo; I don’t have the muscle memory for it just yet, but it’s what I’ll move to once CS3 bites the dust. Also Final Cut Pro X for video and @Procreate on the iPad for drawing and art; not the same tool as Illustrator, but AMAZING. https://twitter.com/SnaccHBG/status/1381707646466658312
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still using my copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 from grad school, and I’ve never been more satisfied. It’s a bit glitchy from time to time, and I have to keep a macOS Mojave partition around to run it, but it hasn’t tried to charge me $200 in over a decade.
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Huh! I was today years old when I learned @Adafruit’s ItsyBitsy series has a 5V level-shifted output. https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/04/12/video-itsybitsy-rp2040-silkscreen-and-the-blowgun-effect/
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https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1381640087314792453
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Replying to @josecastillo
PHEW. took one more hour but I’ve never been so happy to see a blinking light. blinky firmware successfully loaded on to the SAM L22 via UF2. it’s still a bit buggy: double tap reset doesn’t work, and the USB gets confused sometimes, but this opens the door to some POSSIBILITIES.
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Replying to @josecastillo
calling it a night. still I accomplished more than I thought I would today! I can get my firmware onto the device, and I can read it back out; to some extent, the thing works. issue now is getting the bootloader to actually jump to my code. Nevertheless: within striking distance.
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Replying to @josecastillo
OKAY! This is good. This is very very good. After tweaking some calibration values, the bootloader seems to work: I can pull the existing UF2 off of the device and copy it back on. no code in there yet, of course; now I just need to generate a valid UF2 with some blinky firmware.
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Replying to @_initrd
i’m going to get eaten by a grue, I just know it.
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two roads diverged on a darkened street,
and sorry my legs were not as quick,
I noped the fuck out of that place.
srsly forget these roads.
nothing good happens here. https://twitter.com/SpaceLiminalBot/status/1381399581959856134(original)