Harvey Sandstrom

@cd0
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Interested in electronics, rustlang, Godot game dev, but mostly I'm just good at complaining. Well over a decade of experience in Python on desktop, web and embedded.

We believe in science and trans rights, among many other things, but this is account is intended as my geekery refuge from everything that's working against that.

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Show threadHarvey Sandstrom3h ago
Or the BQ41Z90 eval board, which is apparently available, despite the chip not being available. Which implies it is populated with a preproduction IC.
Harvey Sandstrom3h ago

:: cat with newspaper meme ::

I should get a BQ40Z80 eval board...

#electronics #battery #electricalengineering

Harvey Sandstrom2d ago
Laurent Malys2d ago

Growing

#p5js #creativecoding #plant #art

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Harvey Sandstrom3d ago
The Area Light PR I've mentioned several times has been merged into #godotengine, meaning Godot 4.7 will have rectangular area lights. The area lights can also have a texture assigned allowing them to be multicolored and/or non-rectangular (it acts as a mask). They can even be used as an emissive electronic display (but not as an animated video display as altering the texture is costly). https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/108219
Add Rectangular Area Light Source by CookieBadger · Pull Request #108219 · godotengine/godot

This PR adds a rectangular area light source, implemented via Linearly Transformed Cosines (LTC) with textures. It makes use of a Lookup-Table added in the form of two .dds files, and adds some fie...

GitHub
Harvey Sandstrom3d ago
The Area Light PR I've mentioned several times has been merged into #godotengine, meaning Godot 4.7 will have rectangular area lights. The area lights can also have a texture assigned allowing them to be multicolored and/or non-rectangular (it acts as a mask). They can even be used as an emissive electronic display (but not as an animated video display as altering the texture is costly). https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/108219
Add Rectangular Area Light Source by CookieBadger · Pull Request #108219 · godotengine/godot

This PR adds a rectangular area light source, implemented via Linearly Transformed Cosines (LTC) with textures. It makes use of a Lookup-Table added in the form of two .dds files, and adds some fie...

GitHub
Harvey Sandstrom4d ago
Servo4d ago
Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/
Servo is now available on crates.io - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Initial crates.io release and LTS version of Servo

Servo
Show threadHarvey Sandstrom4d ago
The doctor knows were all the drainage tunnels are. #monsterdon
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I'm glad we have professor exposition here to explain what the audience sees to the doctor so he can not do anything. #monsterdon
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There's no silver bullet to this plotline, so to speak. #monsterdon
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Frank you're gonna be a bat too. Isn't that cool? Isn't it cool that I didn't ask you? Neat huh? #monsterdon