Mastodawn

i heard you like #rats so I put a rat in your rats

had two levoit LV-PUR131 air purifiers; both broke right after the warranty expired. dead electrolytic capacitors, apparently a common problem due to them cheaping out on components. got hold of some new caps, tried taking one apart to replace them and bugger me they go out of their way to make it hard. glued-in power cables, blobs of glue on the circuit board, mostly philips screwheads but one triangular one just to fuck with you...

bleh, giving up & getting some new ones, not levoit this time

kadei 🐀 🔜cfz Nov 9

so for a while now I'd been working with Neutron, who was one of the directors of Pawsome, on a registration system. It was on track to be ready for reg in 2026.

I've previously worked on con reg systems and knew I could do sthg that avoided the issues that almost all the existing ones had (few if any tests, little static typing, and almost always proprietary to the con that used them). Mine was open source from the beginning, https://github.com/kadei-rat/kadreg/. Well-tested from the beginning. Strongly statically typed, performant, reliable.

And then Neutron died.

And the two remaining directors (neither of whom I really know) have just told me that they have no interest in the project. They're going with someting one of their friends is throwing together in python.

And I'm absolutely fucking gutted. I spent hundreds of hours on a tight timeline working on this, and to hear so soon after Neutron's death that without him to champion it the con has no interest in it feels like a double gut punch.