Mastodawn

Protip: If something is sounding an alarm and flashing, don't turn it off because it's annoying, especially if you don't know what it's doing.

In this case, some fuckwit turned off the sump pumps in the basement and it flooded. I guess it was probably broken and sounding the siren, but.. turning it off is not a solution, especially when it's currently raining a shitload.

chendo Mar 15

MΛTT Mar 15

RE: https://aus.social/@sunshineapp/116231790377598346

#helloSunshine

Thank you everyone for tolerating my coding whinging over the past few months. To reward your patience, I present this humble offering.

If you genuinely like using this, I'd appreciate a 5★ on the App Store too.

Weather data costs money, so Sunshine does too. It's about 1/2 a coffee in Darling Harbour per month, or 2 pints of beer in Melbourne's inner north per year.

#australia #BoM #indiedev #app

chendo Mar 15

I sat next to a Texan couple at dinner last night and old mate said "pardon my French" after saying "kick-ass"... Told him that we Australians say far worse in professional contexts so it's cool

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chendo Feb 22

Testing the claimed latency of 5ms needs more thought, and I don't have hardware to measure at that timescale, but the update interval they specify in SimTools is 4ms at least

chendo Feb 22

I nerdsniped myself into checking the claimed specs of Thermaltake's GM5 motion platform before I installed it on my rig:
* figured out serial commands to control actuators
* recorded motion at 120fps, loaded into Tracker (open source video analysis for physics experiments)
* exported time/position data to CSV
* gave it to Claude

It exceeds the claimed 250mm/s speed by hitting 300mm/s mid-stroke, but fails the claimed 0.4g acceleration (measured 0.36g)

chendo Feb 19

I just got back from watching a Cyrano de Bergerac play a colleague produced and it was fantastic. I had a Picnic bar just before the show as pre-dinner but I did not expect it to be 3 hours long.. oddly enough I'm not that hungry, and I attribute that to how great it was

chendo Feb 11

I am a sucker for a bargain. I stumbled across what could be a promo code mistake (40% off on an already discounted price) and I ordered it. Fingers crossed it actually ships (and it doesn't suck)

chendo Feb 1

Anyone familiar with the process of applying and operating a TLD? Asking for a friend

chendo Feb 1

Having another crack at directing Claude to build things from scratch in the past week. It seems to be better than before, but one thing I'm doing differently this time is spending more time working on the testing/validation harness. Linting/type checking on git pre-commit, hooks to nudge committing and running tests.

It'll still very often make really junior mistakes that need prodding, but I would've spent a month or two getting to the same point

chendo Feb 1

Selling my Bambu X1C (522 hours) + AMS + accessories if anyone here in Melbourne is interested: $1100 OBO, can send pics on request