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Aerospace engineer, focused mostly on avionics and flight controls.
The latest Bus Pirate firmware has a splash screen and an image command that draws bitmap formatted files on the LCD. đź‘‹Hello to all our new followers!
Me: “my kids are probably ready to watch Star Wars now”
First five minutes of Star Wars: giant half-robot crushes man’s windpipe and throws him at wall
Me: “this is for children”
Really enjoying tinkering with @inkscape path effects at the moment. I wrote an upcoming short tutorial on the Ruler path effect today, but I've just also been playing with the Envelope Deformation effect. Super handy for simple text effects and more. #inkscape #opensource
I doubt it will inspire others, but about a month ago, I decided that going forward, all of my video thumbnails must be an actual still frame from the video, and must be shot on camera, with nothing computer-generated. That doesn't mean I can't do attention-grabbing titles -- I just have to do them the old-fashioned way! (sneak peek of next week's video...)
In 1993 I told my boss I was bored; needed a new subject. 6 months later she said, “I need to support something called the World Wide Web & Mosaic. Don’t know what it is — check it out.” I came back, “It’s very neat. Won’t last 6 months, but I need something new to do.” Joe Meadows & I brought the web into Boeing (gradually with many others). We joined the W3C early, which now is 30! I am deeply grateful for such luck. Huge congrats to the W3C for decades of important work. @w3c @W30C
GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated as a cybersecurity weakness https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html
NIST Special Publication 800-63B

NIST Special Publication 800-63B

Somehow only 62 people have seen this video since it was posted, but it's really quite magical and so I've decided that recommending music is something a Mastadon account is good for. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5uv2yVEKY

SIBF 2024 - SemPer - Edge of the World

YouTube

I'm not going to name and shame, but I've just looked at the repository for a piece of software that's very proud of not having dependencies and doing the thing it does with a surprisingly few lines of code.

Read the install section of the README, first thing it does is start talking about Docker. World's gone mad, I tell you.

"I'M DOING MY PART!" 🫡

Saving the 900 MHz band for @meshtastic and other hobby uses. You can too! https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=24-240

ECFS

Federal Communication Commission Electronic Comment Filing System