Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Magic numbers are bad,
Why divide by two?
I have some Making Embedded Systems 2nd edition books to give away.
To win, send me (or post and tag @embedded) a short, geeky poem or haiku.
Winner notified on Monday Feb 16. US shipment only.
Who's up for getting one of my Art stickers? All I ask is that you let me know when the envelope arrives.
Together we can share a little joy, and collect data on USPS delivery times.
How it works:
1. You sign up
2. I mail a sticker to you
3. You tell me when it arrives
#dataviz #CitizenScience #indiedev #USPS #penpal #art
#CreativeCoding #indiegame
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Hello! My name is Kristin. I'm just one person. Trying to do something good. Together we can * support the USPS with stamp purchases * collect data on mail delivery times * share a little bit of joy You may just want a free sticker. That's cool! BUT I NEED YOU TO TELL ME WHEN IT ARRIVES! It costs me about $5 per request (plus my time), so please tell me when my envelope arrives in your postal mailbox. * Be sure your email address is correct, so that I can let you know when the sticker is mailed and you can start checking your mailbox daily. * If you're outside of the US, please type your mailing address (with postal code) in the "Questions and comment" section of this form. Who am I? I'm Kristin Henry, Science and Data Visualization Pioneer, Artist, and Computer Scientist. http://kristinhenry.github.io/ https://artatomic.itch.io/ Want to help support this project? https://ko-fi.com/artatomic I've created data visualizations showing which cities and states I've sent stickers to, so far. You can read about them here: https://kristinhenry.medium.com/stickers-and-stamps-a-bright-spot-in-2020-d3011afefa09
Apparently the latest Strangest Things release caused Netflix some issues.
That was one kind of fun part of working in Arista TAC was that I got to help investigate root cause on some visible Internet outages. I was the one who got to write the root cause memo for Netflix on what went wrong with the Tyson fight.
Today in "weird stuff I forgot I owned"
The PhonePIC is a PIC programmer from the early 2000s, that allows you to program a microcontroller by sending it DTMF tones.
The board has a mic attached to it, that you hold up to you phones handset and then press keys to write programs!
I'm not sure if this makes PIC programming easier, or harder.
Manual: https://downloads.paulseward.com/PhonePIC/PhonePIC.pdf
Edit for tags: #pic #microcontroller #phone #dtmf #arduino
Well! I've definitely seen my share of "idiosyncratic" C styles omitting braces and exploiting corner cases in 30+ years of having to read other peoples' C code, but this is a new one.
I had not thought about what would happen if you left the braces off a switch. Because, of course, doing so would be utterly unhinged.
I give you: the world's most obtuse version of "if (x == A || x == b)", indistinguishable from an editing mistake.
Present me: “Why do I constantly have to clean up this office? What is going on here?!?”
Past me: “I’ll just leave this here so that it’s obvious where it needs to go when I put it away.” x256
Who in the Fediverse would you most like to meet in real life? (And feel free to tag them.)
Boost to reach that person in the back.
Elecia White
keeps vis.social running
Nick Poole
Kenneth Finnegan
lpbkdotnet
cliffle
Logan Five Thousand