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Just a silly project. Its redline is the token burn rate where you'll exhaust your tokens right at the end of your 5-hour window. Clearly inspired by 1980's Corvette dashboards.

Adafruit's documentation and software maintenance is also top notch. I just built a new project using an ancient, no-longer-sold Adafruit PiTFT Plus which I had in my parts bin. Th…

Brilliant execution. I see so many knob-based inputs on home appliances where they have physical detents but the input encoder does not match the detents. Say you turn the applianc…

I've had very good luck with the integrated fixtures. I have a number of them in my house and only one has failed (of maybe a dozen). This is a lot lower than the failure rate of L…

I bought many of the Home Depot private label LEDs...and had to replace every single one of them. Outright failure, buzzing, flickering. They're just terrible. I've replaced them w…

I'm just the other way: had an Instant Pot for a couple years (which is great) but I bought a Zojirushi rice cooker and LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Japanese medium-grain rice in the Zoji is…

The red handwriting font is exceptionally good; I'd love to know what that is. It looks very natural, I assume with a ton of ligatures.

I used Photoshop and Illustrator for years and years (going back to 1990's) and switched to Affinity about 2 years ago. There's a lot of little details that are different--say, whe…

For the HP48/50 fans here: try the HP Prime. The color display is amazing. It requires some relearning because the UI is different, but it still has full-featured RPN mode. The key…

Only the last Danger device ran NetBSD; all prior ones used a proprietary, in-house OS. It didn't run any of the normal BSD userland, however, as Danger had its own Java-based user…

> why do you say setup and loop are the worst imaginable way to write embedded software? Because there's neither abstraction nor ways to combine things. Say you have a device that …

I'm using XXHash3 for verifying data integrity of large (10+MB) blobs. Very fast and appears to work very well in my testing--it's never missed any bit error I've thrown at it. Asi…

Thanks! Glad you found the site useful. Unfortunately, we were too far ahead of the time in lots of regards--processors were slow, screens were bad, battery technology iffy, no mob…

I worked there for 5 years, and I maintain some historical artifacts from the time, including a gallery of Magic Cap handheld devices and some interesting concept art from Magic's …

Migadu is the place to go--they charge for traffic, not mailboxes. I'm in a similar boat with lots of domains, aliases, and mailboxes. My family comfortably fits in their "mini" pl…

Based on the review, it looks like the iOS 12 password manager has matured quite a bit, but it doesn't say anything about integration with an external password manager. How have th…

Does anybody else miss the style of Aphyr's older posts, with animated Barbie dolls and such mocking the product under scrutiny? Examples: https://aphyr.com/posts/317-jepsen-elasti…

Right, BeOS ran like a bat out of hell even on low-end 603 PowerPC's. The 68K emulation in MacOS worked surprisingly well in terms of compatibility, but at a significant performanc…

I recently looked into the research on this topic, and it absolutely agrees with you--failures are not independent. Papers of note: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/…

If you like the idea of Dwarf Fortress but want more sci-fi and less ASCII, check out Rimworld. The game has a similar bent towards story-telling with crazy events that befall your…

My daughter couldn't breathe easily when she was young--when sleeping you could literally hear her breathing from a room or two away. Like having Darth Vader sleeping in the next r…

"Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" by Andy Hunt https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learn... I found it tremendously useful both in my career (where I can legit s…

Further, if you want to read the Bible end-to-end, consider a chronological Bible. It organizes passages into when they occurred in time, for example in the Old Testament there's o…

Unfortunately I can't say with confidence; mine is one of the servo-controlled ones that cost exactly $1K (new). I don't have first-hand experience with the stepper-driven ones. I …

Most vinyl cutters can use a pen as well. I have a Graphtec CE5000-40 cutter with a 15" wide bed, and I have adapters so I can stick sharpies of various sizes in it. Plus it has ni…