Mastodawn

Got my performance review today.
Positive feedback: literally every member of my team says I'm the best manager they have ever had. I solved multiple long-standing problems the team has been dealing with for years. Team members feel safe to share their struggles, everyone feels empowered, everyone receives valuable feedback.
Negative feedback: I am not enthusiastic enough about AI.
Overall ranking: 3/5.

Anyone hiring for a fully remote team lead?

#GenAI #LLM #GetFediHired #FediHire

poleguy looking for lost tools 1h ago

Olly 👾10h ago

Maker taps Raspberry Pi to turn Wi-Fi Signals into Wall-Art.

Unless you live in a Faraday cage, you're surrounded at all times by invisible radio signals, from Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to cellular traffic. French artist [Théo Champion] has found a way to make that wireless noise visible, with an intense piece of Raspberry Pi-driven art that turns nearby radio activity into light.

https://rootkid.me/works/spectrum-slit

#raspberrypi #wifi #radio #signal #ledpanel #wallart #diy #engineering #media #maker #tech #art #python #programming #news

poleguy looking for lost tools 1h ago

Andy 10h ago

Honestly, you’d have thought I’d be bored of these by now but no! Each one is a bit different and has different needs.

This one was mostly a strip down, clean and polish job. However, somebody had converted it to electric (which wasn’t stated in the advert for it, but it was a fair bit cheaper than others, so swings and roundabouts) and both the main body and the tank had a hole in for the flex. I can live with the hole in the body, but the one in the tank is a little more critical for restoring to use!

I initially tried to used a rivet, but couldn’t get it to work so I then soldered a piece of brass over the hole.

It doesn’t look particularly pretty, but it works and it’s probably a similar repair to what may have been done for cracks and holes when in operational use, instead of throwing it away.

Due to the electric conversion, it didn’t have a burner but I found one in my spares box.

Another one saved!

#MakersHour #restoration #railway

poleguy looking for lost tools 2h ago

Rue Mohr 2h ago

I have cleaned up the idea list for upcoming robots, tomorrow I will need to choose a robot for next week.

poleguy looking for lost tools 2h ago

Rue Mohr Dec 8, 2024

Do you life activities include diagnosing bad capacitors on circuit boards? Take the time to build an in-circuit capacitor tester and stop needlessly replacing caps that are fine! It takes just seconds to go thru a board and identify all the bad caps!

http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/circuits/captester.jpg

poleguy looking for lost tools 7h ago

Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒7h ago

When you think really deeply about it, it's insane that what propels most of our lives forward is a crushing need for constant income.

poleguy looking for lost tools 7h ago

Is it just me?

Playing with xfce4 keyboard shortcuts.

old way:

sh -c 'xfce4-screenshooter -r --save /dev/stdout | xclip -i -selection clipboard -t image/png'

new way:

sh -c 'xfce4-screenshooter -o /home/poleguy/Applications/krita-5.3.0-x86_64_98ee33a9eb9d148f6be570feb3888162.AppImage --region'

poleguy looking for lost tools 8h ago

kdeconnect was not sending SMS messages for me.
I just managed to get kde connect 25.12.3 installed on xubuntu 24.04.2!

With:

```
echo "deb http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kdeneon.list
wget -qO - https://archive.neon.kde.org/public.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdeconnect
sudo apt --fix-broken install
```

I then, for good measure, followed up with:
```
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt update
```

The 23.08.5 that's packaged with xubuntu is meh..