Jeff McBride

@mcbridejc@mstdn.social
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EE. Making computers control physical things. Into embedded rust, running, mountains, digital fab, unfinished projects.

I've been described as smart, capable, and bored.

Grateful to do whatever it is that I'm doing.

Websitehttps://jeffmcbride.net
Githubhttps://github.com/mcbridejc
Show threadJeff McBrideDec 15
@narthur @kagihq can second this
Show threadJeff McBrideDec 13
@narthur I dunno I've got a few more than that and still probably add half mine AFTER RA complains. But also I use 'let' and leave off return statements in my Python all the time now so... At least I have that going for me. If only pylint would flag the missing returns as well as RA does though...
Jeff McBrideDec 12

For over 6 months now, I've been using #Immich as a google photos replacement for phone backup, sharing, browsing, searching, and have to say: I'm pretty impressed. Stuff like searching for "landscape with snow", or "dogfood" to find that photo of the type of dog food I'm supposed to buy just works.

It lacks some of the photo editing features I'm used to, but has actually better searching tools than google. I can edit with other tools. It also regularly continues to improve. I'm impressed.

Show threadJeff McBrideDec 12
@North "It's got good bones"
Show threadJeff McBrideDec 12

This was all laid out by hand! On the purple sun workstations running Solaris in the "VLSI lab".

I wonder if I can reverse engineer the pinout. Would that be a better use of my time than finishing the closet clean out? Probably not. But more fun? maybe.

Show threadJeff McBrideDec 12
@North So much nostalgia! I don't need this stuff at all..but it's hard to trash because now it's old and reminds me of things. ugh. I never worked there but I certainly remember going there all the time for parts...
Show threadJeff McBrideDec 12

No wait I spoke too soon! I also found the IC I designed in college and it's in a 40-pin DIP package! I have no idea what the pinout is though...

It was an N (?) channel PWM generator with a parallel databus for configuring.

Jeff McBrideDec 12
I'm cleaning out some #electronics bins that I have ignored for a veeery long time. Hard to believe I've been carrying this bin around the country with me for ~2 decades -- maybe 8 moves? I really don't think I'm going to want a 40-pin dip socket ever again though...
Show threadJeff McBrideNov 25
@eivind this gives me factorio flashbacks
Jeff McBrideNov 25
#Discord is the worst. It's annoying enough that they release new .deb packages constantly but won't bother to put them in a repo. But then, putting this copy on the update notification is just ridiculous. No one feels lucky that they have to do this every week. Who could possibly think this is a good idea?!