Aaron Brady @insom@tiny.tilde.website

60% confident this is an okay way to use a die.

Made this leather sheath for my railway spike multi-tool (it's a bad hammer, a bad pry bar and a bad bottle opener).

Having a camera phone is such a boon when working on electronics. I was shortening the USB lead on this mouse and took a photo to remind me what order the wires were in.

Then I dropped the mouse off the table and bits of rotary encoder and spring came loose and I had no idea how they should go back.

Good thing I _just_ took a photo and was able to piece it all back together!

How many layers of debugging are you on?

Milk

Meanwhile, in Canada.

LicheePi Zero kernel Dec set up

Finally executed on the idea of an OpenGL shader that tints your whole X session amber. This way I can avoid buying an amber CRT from eBay that I do not actually need, just to tickle that nostalgia part of my brain and get it to leave me alone.

Shader gist is here: https://gist.github.com/insom/88c473a0980b43b59fcbabc64650513d

New hand-built ribbon mic, featuring a custom case I'm pretty proud of. (Also it sounds good).

My current personal laptop is a liberated Chromebook running regular Ubuntu 21.04, folded back with a nice bluetooth keyboard and a trackball. ngl it's making me happy to use it. A change is as good as a rest.

Look at this beautiful thing!

Batterie de Secours.

Hardware hacking crash cart

My input devices they are forcing me to go slow to save my wrists

Same, on a 1970's Tektronix scope. If anything the image is -more- stable on this one, although in person it wobbles like there is some stray capacitance somewhere.

Used my Raspberry Pi Pico to make a 256x256 raster display that works with the XY mode of an analog scope. One of those things I knew how to do in theory but that was a few pleasant hours of wiring and debugging to make work for real.

The version with a Z output (for intensity) refreshes at 100Hz.

https://gist.github.com/insom/0e091bdb65e5abbd2fba68f8e7bebbd5

#looptober number 7, january 2021 and still not giving up until i do 31 edition.

Me: Retrocomputing is a useless impulse to rage against the complexity of modern computing by throwing the good away with the bad.

Also me:

Running Motif WM on my workbench Raspberry Pi while I write an image for a _different_ Pi. #motifgang

Browsing Gemini in Agena from a 7 year-old phone with my bluetooth keyboard. Like a low-effort cyberdeck, considering my set backs with my own design.