Aaron Brady @insom@tiny.tilde.website

Hey friendos! Ottawa Processing Day 2019 is over, which means my talk is done, which means I can experience joy again instead of just anxiety about giving my talk.

@tildetown got called out heavily, and especially @curio (for botany).

Please find attached this image of the Tilde Town Time Service that ran back in November 2017.

It's really more of an artists rendition - as it was created post-facto - but I actually built a working speaker amplifier on breadboard for authenticity reasons.

StatusCake tells me: Total Downtime: 196:51:12

97% availability this year. A nine!

I wrote up a thing about continuing to host from my basement even though ttw was down for over a week: https://www.insom.me.uk/2022/05/29/outage.html

(although I _will_ be getting solar panels and have already ordered a larger battery backup).

Power on at 9:13, ttw back at 9:33 😅

OH MY GOD WE'RE BACK

Power is out where I am, so tiny.tilde.website will be taking a nap soon, when the UPS runs out. 👋

About to be back on some bullshit again.

@eli_oat Found sfeed through you and I think it's the RSS-thing I've been looking for. Thanks!

I made this PCB vise out of some ground steel rod I already had and spare 3D printer pieces.

I cut a groove into both of those aluminium castings with a mill (which holds the board) and drilled and tapped into part of an old dumbbell for weight.

Adjusting the vise means having to use a 3mm hex wrench, but I have those on my workbench so this is no big deal.

Pleased to get some lightweight metalwork done.

@ooze 👋 hey, small world!

Is installing WinAmp to browse my old MP3 collection a sign of midlife crisis?

Added picom to my openbsd-cwm Linux desktop, for pretty drop-shadows and transparency effects. Is there a standard less-racist-term-than-ricing for this?

Went straight from a really, really busy time at work to four weeks off; literally posted an update to a project then shut my laptop down and put it in a drawer. Low key feels like I've quit my job (I have not quit my job).

Yes. Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage#Internet

> [Sherry Turkle] advocates the "bricoleur style" of programming as a valid and underexamined alternative to what she describes as the conventional structured "planner" approach. In this style of coding, the programmer works without an exhaustive preliminary specification, opting instead for a step-by-step growth and re-evaluation process.

Sorry for the outage, the power went out for about two hours here, and the UPS was good for about the first 25 minutes of that.