Systems enthusiast, problem solver. I like games, photography, home automation, bouldering, 3D printing, and building random shit.
Co-founder at Assembly Four. Creator of https://shortcat.app and https://geotagalpha.app. Previously ran a Mastodon instance with 400k+ users 📈
Pronouns: he/him/they
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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)
I just shipped Shortcat v0.12.0, which I'm dubbing the Emoji Update. Unicode 16.0 emojis, and now includes all the variations (skin tone, genders, etc), including making more metadata about the emoji searchable (categories and subcategories).
Last Shortcat update was Jan 2023 >_>
Getting the toolchains up to date was a challenge as big build changes in Xcode as well as the JS tooling.
Today's project was to repurpose some air quality sensors and put them in the ceiling of my kitchen, and the common hallway next to my kitchen. This was to confirm the theory that the smoke that was somehow getting into my lounge room from a neighbour's back porch 20m away via the common ceiling,
This graph is pretty strong case for my theory... The problem is, what's the most effective way to stop it?
Side note: Home Assistant dashboards suck. What are other people using?
I was checking up on a cool energy storage idea that uses old mine shafts and weights to store energy when suddenly:
