Mike P

@FenTiger
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Mid-40s techie living in #Ely, #Cambridgeshire, UK. Player of #Ingress, under the name "Wrongfellow" (and I've used this name elsewhere, too). #Dog and #cat lover. Drinker of #ale and #cider. Occasional #CAMRA and #beer #festival volunteer.

This account is mainly used for random drunken wit and shitposting. If you're interested in my technical projects, you might prefer to follow my Hubzilla account: @fentiger

Website:https://www.mythik.co.uk/
Weird:https://weird.mythik.co.uk
Codeberg:https://codeberg.org/FenTiger
GitHub:https://github.com/FenTiger
cooking vs cooked
Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit

CUPERTINO, CA—Amidst the strain of tariffs, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Thursday the launch of a new 7,083-piece iPhone kit. “Apple customers will have a blast soldering, polishing, and drilling as they build their very own iPhone,” Cook said in a Keynote presentation at Apple headquarters, touting the new product as an innovative, first-of-its-kind achievement […]

The Onion

people are sometimes surprised to learn that i do not have a degree in computer science. or any degree, actually.

turns out nerds gonna nerd?

Aaand this is why i hate the confabulation of address bar and search bar in modern browser UIs.
in the uk you could value a piece of land at pounds per square inch
Limits to Growth was right about collapse

People have spent years trying to discredit or ignore Limits to Growth. But when you populate the model with the best recent data, collpase starts about now.

the next wave

The real reason U+ FPGAs have so much block RAM isn't so you can make complicated RTL designs.

It's so you can fit 50+ probes of ILA into your synthesized design to catch corner cases that you haven't been able to trigger in simulation :P

gemini is inventing "interesting" new pcb structures to simulate

linkspam!

How core git developers configure git.

https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/

saved 2025-02-25 https://dotat.at/:/11LIJ.html

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.

GitButler