Subvert.

The Bandcamp alternative that is owned by its community is now live.

https://www.subvert.fm

#subvertfm

Edit to mention that the co-op has a Mastodon account 👇

@subvertworld

Today #CERN released its #KiCad component library to the public.
They are licensed CERN-OHL-P-2.0
Thank you OSPO ❤️ for getting this done.

Originally the library is made in Altium and will also be maintained in Altium. The repo only contains files that have been automatically converted.

It is a database library which contains only fully specified parts. There are lots of weird connectors. Have fun exploring.

https://home.cern/computing/cerns-kicad-component-library-now-open-source/

Me: "By ensuring that illegal states can't be represented and expressing the logic as a total function, we can easily reason about what the computer can and cannot do when it hits this point."

The rest of my industry, sometimes: "Please. I beg you. Stop producing output about goblins. You are supposed to produce code. Why are there goblins."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/

🌟 Project Release Announcement Time! 🎉

I wrote a WebUSB extension for Firefox.

This lets web pages access USB devices (with your permission). This has long been supported by Chrome, but Mozilla has not wanted it, at least by default. Fortunately, because add-ons are a thing (for now. make sure to keep fighting for this!), it's possible to change that!

Common reasons for wanting this include programming microcontrollers, 3d-printers, smartphone bootloaders, and similar "physical computing" projects.

This works on Windows, Linux, and macOS

You can get the source code here: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb

In order to make this work, you will need to install a small program on your computer. This is explained in the README. You can then install the .xpi file (on the GitHub Releases page) into your browser (which was _just_ auto-approved while I was typing this announcement up).

Please boost (if you want), test, report bugs, etc. etc. (although do keep in mind that this code is entirely written by a single catgirl)

i think this is the perfect type of project to drop late on a sunday / very early on a monday?

hey #electronics fedi, anyone wants to do me a solid and glance at the Glasgow Interface Explorer revD design at https://codeberg.org/tachiniererin/glasgow_revD ? it's just a prototype pass right now and i know the layout and routing is far from optimal, i'm just trying to find any show-stoppers so that we can start with testing.

edit: i've gotten enough findings by people in the meantime to warrant enough changes and a re-layout, thank you all!