Mastodawn

Simon Monk May 25, 2025

I found this very interesting. https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china #china

What the West Gets Wrong About China

Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as in the West. The authors suggest that those assumptions are rooted in three essentially false beliefs about modern China: (1) Economics and democracy are two sides of the same coin; (2) authoritarian political systems can’t be legitimate; and (3) the Chinese live, work, and invest like Westerners. But at every point since 1949 the Chinese Communist Party—central to the institutions, society, and daily experiences that shape all Chinese people—has stressed the importance of Chinese history and of Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Until Western companies and politicians understand this and revise their views, they will continue to get China wrong. The complete Spotlight package is available in a single reprint.

Harvard Business Review

Simon Monk Jan 26, 2025

Very interesting. TLDR use 1u MLCC decoupling caps instead of 100n. https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/proper-decoupling-practices-and-why-you-should-leave-100nf-behind/

Proper decoupling practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind

Ever wondered why 100nF is a go-to value for decoupling capacitors? This number has pervaded in datasheets and electronics advice going back to the 1980s, and is still widely present in the datashe…

codeinsecurity

Simon Monk Jan 12, 2025

A 3 year old I know and love has started to tell, people whose conversation she's bored with, to 'skip' in the same way I talk to Spotify on my smart speaker! I'm now speaking respectfully to smart speakers -- she doesn't know they are not sentient.

Simon Monk Oct 6, 2024

codfather #FBPE Oct 6, 2024

Simon Monk Jun 23, 2024

Paul Grenfell Jun 18, 2024

Hello retro-south-England-free-loving-mastadonians! I'm emptying out a storage container and.. well.. I don't have much time. All this stuff is free if you can get to me or I can get it to you before Tuesday 25th June. I'm in Kent right now but will be travelling East. Please save this stuff from the rubbish tip :(

Please share if you know someone who might want this. DM me to get in contact.

Events

Here’s a page dedicated to forthcoming events where I’ll be out and about, reading poems, signing books and generally inflicting myself on an unsuspecting or unreceptive public: 2026 Fe…

Brian Bilston

Simon Monk Jan 25, 2024

New blog post on analog inputs, esp32 vs Pico vs Arduino Uno https://www.doctormonk.com/2024/01/comparingadcs.html?m=1

Lies, Damn Lies and Analog Inputs (comparing ADCs on ESP32, Pico and Arduino)

After some inconsistent and unreliable results reading an analog input from an ESP32 board, I decided to get all scientific and do some expe...

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Simon Monk Dec 13, 2023

@Steampunk_Prof @biglesp I seem to remember some 555s have push pull outputs. So one LED to +v one to Gnd from same output. But some variants have open drain outputs so that doesn't work.

Simon Monk Oct 28, 2023