Consider celebrating #Metric Day on September 23 this year. It'll be the 25 anniversary of the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter slamming into the planet because one contractor (Lockheed Martin) disregarded NASA spec and calibrated a sensor in lbf instead of N.

This was a US $327.6 million project. This is the only image of Mars that the probe produced, taken at over 4 million kilometres away from the planet. The 576 non-zero pixels effectively cost $568,750 each.

Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?

I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.

[edit: @blakecoverett has put https://regex.ca to appropriately goofy, human-centric use. huzzah for the Fediverse!]

#canada #regex #perl

Got tired of manually cutting and pasting labels from DigiKey pouches to the pages in my SMD sample book.

So I wrote a couple of scripts stringing together a barcode reader app, the DigiKey API and a label printer to easily print labels.

Let's hope this helps to reduce the ever-growing pile of DigiKey bags and brings some order into my parts inventory.

Get it from: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/dk-labels

don't like microsoft making decisions for you that you can't do anything about due to the market forces?

switch to linux!

here, you can have the systemd project making decisions for you that you can't do anything about due to the market forces

it's funnier because more shit breaks