jacquelines 🌟

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2026-05-21 04:23:50 UTC

>Do you ever have flashes of insight or an idea worth remembering? This happens to me 5-10 times every day. If I don't write down the thought immediately, it slips out of my mind.

2026-05-19 11:50:00 UTC

i set up https://goaccess.io/ recently. it's good software, i would recommend it.

2026-05-18 23:43:05 UTC

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basically instead of everything going directly to my house via a static ip, everything now goes to a vps that proxies to my house via a wireguard tunnel. this saves me $25/month.

2026-05-18 23:42:07 UTC

i changed some details about how forum.cooltech.zone et al are hosted. if it looks broken then tell me about it ig

2026-05-13 06:00:00 UTC

i find that the state of the world is quite bad for my productivity

2026-05-12 07:13:54 UTC

rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

2026-05-05 07:34:56 UTC

new blog post from me! https://jacqueline.id.au/agentic-ai/

2026-05-03 10:24:19 UTC

Co-authored-by: vim <[email protected]>

2026-04-30 07:21:37 UTC

my dev environment preferences have shifted over the years from “ides are so good why would u ever *not* use one?” to “if u make me leave the terminal i will kill you”

2026-04-29 02:40:34 UTC

hey, thanks so much for your pr! before i review, could u please confirm that you've followed all our contribution guidelines? u can read them here: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

2026-04-26 05:23:16 UTC

“is there a docker dev container?” no, learn to use your computer

2026-03-26 07:34:09 UTC

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i have read so many datasheets and none have sparked joy

2026-03-26 07:33:38 UTC

does anyone know a good A2DP-capable bluetooth module

2026-03-16 22:10:33 UTC

i will continue to post low-effort bait until i have blocked every annoying asshole replyguy on the entire fediverse. thank you for your attention in this matter!

2026-03-12 20:56:32 UTC

u programmed this with claude? the ai platform for bombing schools?

2026-02-23 02:44:40 UTC

there's a new tangara release. it's good if u like to organise your music via some kind of obtuse directory structure. u can download the new version here https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v2.1.0

2026-02-22 20:35:44 UTC

oh look another one https://poc.bcachefs.org/

2026-02-17 05:59:33 UTC

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i feel like i don't have the words to properly describe how it feels to see people who opinions i respected and valued slowly fall into ai psychosis. it's so slow and so subtle at first. "i'm just experimenting! i'm not an ai booster!"
then wait a few months, and they start explaining with the usual flawed, incoherent reasoning how actually it's all very interesting and thought-provoking, whilst pointing at an LLM that is so obviously just a reflection of their own ego.

2026-02-17 05:44:14 UTC

every blog post i read about 'agentic LLMs' just makes me feel concerned for the author. it would be embarrassing if it wasn't so deeply sad.

2026-02-12 09:58:02 UTC

electronics fedi please link the best test clip set available on aliexpress thank you cc @npub183r…lwxj

2026-02-08 00:26:27 UTC

my website isn’t ‘down’ i’m committing small web decentralisation praxis by normalising not being able to access my website when my power is out

2026-01-31 09:51:29 UTC

from https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
> We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.

2026-01-23 03:52:06 UTC

tangara development update i’m recovering from surgery

2026-01-15 02:25:44 UTC

you know how there’s an increasingly large dataset showing that talking to LLMs a lot is like really really bad for your brain? there’s no ‘except for software developers’ carve-out. just fyi !

2026-01-11 04:28:21 UTC

some girls on here
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/874/573/110/298/893/original/bca20c6898b607d6.jpg

2025-12-18 05:42:54 UTC

i am now on holiday for xmas

2025-12-13 03:35:40 UTC

getting good quality audio out of a portable device is quite a lot harder than people seem to think ime

2025-12-12 22:25:07 UTC

i found the perfect part for tangara gen 2 but it only comes in a 36-pin 0.4mm pitch bga package

2025-12-08 02:29:44 UTC

there will be a great new tangara firmware release this friday!

2025-10-27 22:39:50 UTC

today i am practicing being kind with myself (opening a new bag of jumper leads instead of digging through my big messy bag of loose ones)

2025-10-20 03:35:42 UTC

omg look!!!! https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.5.0

2025-10-18 05:06:44 UTC

i’m properly back to linux desktop now. i forgot how nice it is.

2025-10-17 06:52:30 UTC

i have an nvidia graphics card with the nouveau driver, plus wayland and gnome. my second monitor is not automatically detected. fedi reply guys now is your time in my hour of need please tell me how to use my computer. debian btw.

2025-10-10 04:46:18 UTC

gnu emacs the everything app

2025-10-09 09:30:13 UTC

hard at work
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/343/500/053/163/939/original/b3f08501964c2d05.jpg

2025-10-09 09:15:58 UTC

this is great, now my mastodon and bsky feeds are both all drama and discourse about big orgs run by 'apolitical' dickheads. maybe i will live in the woods.

2025-09-30 23:24:30 UTC

thank you so much to whichever team at gmail that thought this would be a good idea
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/295/822/101/936/549/original/bf3d7187dc52a627.png

2025-09-16 02:56:44 UTC

i feel strongly that offering to adjust the colour of the sky in a photo i took in 2015 is an insult to life and the human experience
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/211/721/535/479/512/original/1da2b15cc3b8636b.jpeg

2025-09-10 07:16:39 UTC

it's on github. it's on codeberg. you can get it on sourcehut. it's totally on gitea

2025-09-05 00:39:15 UTC

there will be a new tangara firmware release today maybe

2025-08-29 21:18:26 UTC

my hypothesis is that there’s overlap between average mastodon dot social annoying guy and average bsky discover feed annoying guy. our next post will put this to the test.

2025-08-28 22:23:24 UTC

wow! no!
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/108/726/587/690/013/original/4be792fad0853e29.png

2025-08-16 05:08:53 UTC

it used to be mainstream to use the www subdomain, and counterculture to not use it. but now it’s mainstream to not use it, and counterculture to have your site on www

2025-08-15 01:46:13 UTC

thank u to codeberg for going down we will have lunch early today instead of working

2025-08-12 04:04:13 UTC

the main difficulty of electronics is when u wire something up with full knowledge of how it will work, then u wait a few weeks to get the boards back, and then u have to work out how it works again to make the firmware

2025-08-08 02:06:56 UTC

if u have a tangara and u want to play music using apple's lossless audio codec, then there is some very good news for you in today's release https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.4.0

2025-08-06 09:06:10 UTC

hello mastodon

2025-07-29 06:03:00 UTC

iykyk
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/935/001/825/185/311/original/3f527e1308260bbb.png

2025-07-22 00:40:24 UTC

embedded software is so much nicer than the stuff we did earlier in our career. generally stuff is pretty simple, with sensible abstractions, and things are designed to be reasonably performant. would take this over the fucking mess that was android dev any day.

2025-07-18 01:07:44 UTC

finally
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/871/556/104/647/846/original/ffa2cbf994099555.png

2025-07-15 00:24:44 UTC

got one of the first parts for tangara 2! we’re gonna keep making them bigger the more people complain!
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/854/397/271/619/942/original/eb0614724738daed.jpg

2025-06-27 01:48:30 UTC

go is just a worse java imo

2025-06-26 23:07:03 UTC

the most frustrating thing about this era of big tech fucking garbage is that the floss freaks were kind of right

2025-06-25 03:35:50 UTC

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employ 👏 technical 👏 writers

2025-06-25 03:35:25 UTC

active-low pin labeled 'shutdown'

2025-06-10 03:10:58 UTC

artificial general intelligence? brother we don’t even have the technology to create a robotic pet cat.
these mfs think they’re inventing god but they can’t even replicate a dumbass who shits in a box

2025-06-09 23:28:25 UTC

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also contrast ratio is a trick made up by Big Accessibility to try to corrupt your bold artistic vision. DON'T LET THEM WIN

2025-06-09 23:07:48 UTC

it is essential as a tech company to fire your entire ux leadership and redesign everything every few years. incremental improvement and learning from your mistakes are NOT 10x thinking

2025-05-30 02:51:03 UTC

back on that grind !!
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/594/508/532/132/473/original/2d670390eb7f5904.jpg

2025-05-29 10:13:42 UTC

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it's pocketing time :3

2025-05-29 06:59:16 UTC

let's go gamers
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/589/822/339/133/475/original/33b033692ffb64cc.png

2025-05-28 06:30:42 UTC

gamer tip: if u stare at a pcb layout all day u will be tired

2025-05-28 03:33:40 UTC

some girls on here
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/583/351/822/025/931/original/62343b135562e570.png

2025-05-28 00:56:32 UTC

Dear Murata Electronics,
Please invent a 22uF 50V MLCC that does not derate due to DC bias and costs maybe 50c each maximum.
Thanks!
Jacquelines

2025-05-27 02:41:06 UTC

mastodon FR: post type where any replies with more than 2x the character count of the OP are automatically deleted

2025-05-14 01:12:50 UTC

FUCK GIT SUBMODULES

2025-05-13 11:01:29 UTC

did fastmail force anyone else to reauth today?

2025-05-01 03:43:30 UTC

the COWARDLY diode d7 will be removed from this dev board for the crime of reducing the supposed '5v' output to a mere 4.7 volts

2025-04-29 01:45:48 UTC

same, dude
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/418/721/635/266/215/original/ceeb18dc1ae6bb09.png

2025-04-28 00:33:17 UTC

so far our review of being an open source maintainer is that there are some weird fucking people out there

2025-04-24 23:54:00 UTC

y’all like cats? here’s one
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/395/631/285/154/614/original/5ce648ca057502df.jpg
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/395/631/716/586/016/original/96816b60f46559d7.jpg

2025-04-24 02:18:28 UTC

example kind of bug report the gets u banned https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/issues/344

2025-04-16 06:18:57 UTC

the bad part of getting a job is less time to focus on spreading joy to the world via gay music players
the good part of getting a job is number in bank account go up

2025-04-15 01:56:35 UTC

pressing 'run' in pulseview causes our computer's entire usb stack to restart. flipping the orientation of the usb-c cable plugged into the logic analyser fixes this.
probably fine.

2025-04-06 03:24:52 UTC

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new webcam view feat. tangara parts
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/288/875/083/817/199/original/2eba8a827c6657b4.jpg

2025-04-06 03:22:47 UTC

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main change was moving our computer out of the bedroom and into what we're now calling 'the office'. previously this room held a combination of tangara parts and an untidy pile of junk. the tangara parts are still here tho.

2025-04-06 03:21:11 UTC

the great pre-new-job room rearranging is complete...

2025-04-05 02:03:54 UTC

starting a new gig on tuesday btw! pretty exciting they're letting us be an "electronics engineer" these days!

2025-03-28 03:29:52 UTC

if u write an ogg encoder that includes albumart as a 400KiB vorbis comment then u are our personal enemy and u will not be escaping samsara

2025-03-27 02:57:34 UTC

anyone else really tired now of days? due to the times that these are?

2025-03-20 02:43:36 UTC

high quality tangara release https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.3.0

2025-03-14 05:27:45 UTC

it's quite a lot of work to make an mp3 player

2025-03-13 04:12:08 UTC

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looks goated. why 5.25v out out of interest? our guess would be you get to a 5v rail eventually via a separate ldo regulator? or do you have some cool tech that uses 5.25 specifically?

2025-03-10 03:45:51 UTC

all open hardware shops should ideally serve this level of cunt
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/136/072/418/336/124/original/e88530340f76b028.jpg

2025-03-09 20:12:29 UTC

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if you see the esp32 ‘backdoor’ news and are wondering why everyone is falling for such a nothingburger, the answer is that most people on here will believe literally any baseless made up “china bad!” bullshit. some of y’all are so committed to your sinophobia that it makes u stupid.

2025-03-09 20:12:28 UTC

so can we talk about how fucking racist fedi is whenever china or chinese people come up?

2025-03-09 07:45:26 UTC

shocking tangara backdoor allows attackers to update your device's firmware via an exploit in the 'tangara companion' app

2025-03-06 05:08:50 UTC

this is the most compsci freak we'll ever get on main, but working within the limitations of the esp32 has led to some of the most genuinely fun and interesting programming problem solving we've ever done. we imagine it's the itch that retrocomputing scratches for a lot of folks.

2025-03-05 00:46:48 UTC

honestly we really empathise with the style of open source maintainer who simply snaps and starts replying to every issue with "fuck you, make your own thing if you're so smart". we will resist the urge, but we do get it.

2025-03-04 11:49:32 UTC

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electric cars, self-driving cars, LLMs, NFTs, phones, computers, apple vision pro, oculus. it's all just fucking toys.

2025-03-04 11:46:16 UTC

what's his face was wrong, it's not "enshitiffication", it's "toys economy". capital flows exclusively in the direction of shiny toys, to the rot of everything

2025-03-04 06:28:48 UTC

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a lot of tech folks have jobs where all they do is send emails and it really shows tbh

2025-03-04 06:27:49 UTC

so how are LLMs supposed to take every job if they still can’t reliably do anything

2025-03-03 21:48:38 UTC

falsehoods programmers believe about weather:
- fahrenheit is a reasonable default
- an icon is enough information to make any decision about the whether
- global weather forecast services are accurate and reliable
thank u firefox very cool !

2025-03-01 22:19:47 UTC

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check out the ifixit coverage btw, including their masto thread.
very nice of the "repair your stuff" guys to post long justifications about how improved performance is worth sacrificing the ability to repair anything. very normal.

2025-03-01 22:13:24 UTC

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these guys have the most effective marketing + social media strategy in the entire industry

2025-03-01 22:12:58 UTC

framework computer desktop offering hailed as huge win for repairability and upgradeability
actual update paths available:
1) swap out the cooler for no reason
2) swap out 2x m2 nvme drives

2025-02-23 00:53:39 UTC

if veronica explains doesn't like tangara we may cry

2025-02-21 21:09:20 UTC

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preorders for batch 2 are available. shipping in a month or so; we’re in the assembly stage now (we finished the first 50 of batch 2 yesterday!)

2025-02-21 06:23:48 UTC

hello mastodon, please enjoy this laptop https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Laptop-CF-SV7-Lets-Notebook-Generation/dp/B0D5M77GGK?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_r=3ZSBTZPFW91J2B1KQHVM&pf_rd_p=8bafa2b8-c18e-4aff-965f-5e5bf637d2e0&pd_rd_i=B0D5M77GGK&psc=1&pd_rd_w=5IgDO&pd_rd_wg=FW5Td&pd_rd_r=dac70b94-7d82-4925-ad23-a1fdadf4116d&content-id=amzn1.sym.8bafa2b8-c18e-4aff-965f-5e5bf637d2e0