jacquelines 🌟

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Last Notes

2026-05-12 07:13:54 GMT

rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

2026-02-17 05:59:33 GMT

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i feel like i don't have the words to properly describe how it feels to see people who opinions i respected and valued slowly fall into ai psychosis. it's so slow and so subtle at first. "i'm just experimenting! i'm not an ai booster!"
then wait a few months, and they start explaining with the usual flawed, incoherent reasoning how actually it's all very interesting and thought-provoking, whilst pointing at an LLM that is so obviously just a reflection of their own ego.

2025-12-18 05:42:54 GMT

i am now on holiday for xmas

2025-12-13 03:35:40 GMT

getting good quality audio out of a portable device is quite a lot harder than people seem to think ime

2025-12-12 22:25:07 GMT

i found the perfect part for tangara gen 2 but it only comes in a 36-pin 0.4mm pitch bga package

2025-12-08 02:29:44 GMT

there will be a great new tangara firmware release this friday!

2025-10-27 22:39:50 GMT

today i am practicing being kind with myself (opening a new bag of jumper leads instead of digging through my big messy bag of loose ones)

2025-10-20 03:35:42 GMT

omg look!!!! https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.5.0

2025-10-18 05:06:44 GMT

i’m properly back to linux desktop now. i forgot how nice it is.

2025-10-17 06:52:30 GMT

i have an nvidia graphics card with the nouveau driver, plus wayland and gnome. my second monitor is not automatically detected. fedi reply guys now is your time in my hour of need please tell me how to use my computer. debian btw.

2025-10-10 04:46:18 GMT

gnu emacs the everything app

2025-10-09 09:30:13 GMT

hard at work
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/343/500/053/163/939/original/b3f08501964c2d05.jpg

2025-10-09 09:15:58 GMT

this is great, now my mastodon and bsky feeds are both all drama and discourse about big orgs run by 'apolitical' dickheads. maybe i will live in the woods.

2025-09-30 23:24:30 GMT

thank you so much to whichever team at gmail that thought this would be a good idea
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2025-09-16 02:56:44 GMT

i feel strongly that offering to adjust the colour of the sky in a photo i took in 2015 is an insult to life and the human experience
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/211/721/535/479/512/original/1da2b15cc3b8636b.jpeg

2025-09-10 07:16:39 GMT

it's on github. it's on codeberg. you can get it on sourcehut. it's totally on gitea

2025-09-05 00:39:15 GMT

there will be a new tangara firmware release today maybe

2025-08-29 21:18:26 GMT

my hypothesis is that there’s overlap between average mastodon dot social annoying guy and average bsky discover feed annoying guy. our next post will put this to the test.

2025-08-28 22:23:24 GMT

wow! no!
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2025-08-16 05:08:53 GMT

it used to be mainstream to use the www subdomain, and counterculture to not use it. but now it’s mainstream to not use it, and counterculture to have your site on www

2025-08-15 01:46:13 GMT

thank u to codeberg for going down we will have lunch early today instead of working

2025-08-12 04:04:13 GMT

the main difficulty of electronics is when u wire something up with full knowledge of how it will work, then u wait a few weeks to get the boards back, and then u have to work out how it works again to make the firmware

2025-08-08 02:06:56 GMT

if u have a tangara and u want to play music using apple's lossless audio codec, then there is some very good news for you in today's release https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.4.0

2025-08-06 09:06:10 GMT

hello mastodon

2025-07-29 06:03:00 GMT

iykyk
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2025-07-22 00:40:24 GMT

embedded software is so much nicer than the stuff we did earlier in our career. generally stuff is pretty simple, with sensible abstractions, and things are designed to be reasonably performant. would take this over the fucking mess that was android dev any day.

2025-07-18 01:07:44 GMT

finally
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2025-07-15 00:24:44 GMT

got one of the first parts for tangara 2! we’re gonna keep making them bigger the more people complain!
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/854/397/271/619/942/original/eb0614724738daed.jpg

2025-06-27 01:48:30 GMT

go is just a worse java imo

2025-06-26 23:07:03 GMT

the most frustrating thing about this era of big tech fucking garbage is that the floss freaks were kind of right

2025-06-25 03:35:50 GMT

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employ 👏 technical 👏 writers

2025-06-25 03:35:25 GMT

active-low pin labeled 'shutdown'

2025-06-10 03:10:58 GMT

artificial general intelligence? brother we don’t even have the technology to create a robotic pet cat.
these mfs think they’re inventing god but they can’t even replicate a dumbass who shits in a box

2025-06-09 23:28:25 GMT

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also contrast ratio is a trick made up by Big Accessibility to try to corrupt your bold artistic vision. DON'T LET THEM WIN

2025-06-09 23:07:48 GMT

it is essential as a tech company to fire your entire ux leadership and redesign everything every few years. incremental improvement and learning from your mistakes are NOT 10x thinking

2025-05-30 02:51:03 GMT

back on that grind !!
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2025-05-29 10:13:42 GMT

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it's pocketing time :3

2025-05-29 06:59:16 GMT

let's go gamers
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2025-05-28 06:30:42 GMT

gamer tip: if u stare at a pcb layout all day u will be tired

2025-05-28 03:33:40 GMT

some girls on here
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2025-05-28 00:56:32 GMT

Dear Murata Electronics,
Please invent a 22uF 50V MLCC that does not derate due to DC bias and costs maybe 50c each maximum.
Thanks!
Jacquelines

2025-05-27 02:41:06 GMT

mastodon FR: post type where any replies with more than 2x the character count of the OP are automatically deleted

2025-05-14 01:12:50 GMT

FUCK GIT SUBMODULES

2025-05-13 11:01:29 GMT

did fastmail force anyone else to reauth today?

2025-05-01 03:43:30 GMT

the COWARDLY diode d7 will be removed from this dev board for the crime of reducing the supposed '5v' output to a mere 4.7 volts

2025-04-29 01:45:48 GMT

same, dude
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2025-04-28 00:33:17 GMT

so far our review of being an open source maintainer is that there are some weird fucking people out there

2025-04-24 23:54:00 GMT

y’all like cats? here’s one
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/395/631/285/154/614/original/5ce648ca057502df.jpg
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2025-04-24 02:18:28 GMT

example kind of bug report the gets u banned https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/issues/344

2025-04-16 06:18:57 GMT

the bad part of getting a job is less time to focus on spreading joy to the world via gay music players
the good part of getting a job is number in bank account go up

2025-04-15 01:56:35 GMT

pressing 'run' in pulseview causes our computer's entire usb stack to restart. flipping the orientation of the usb-c cable plugged into the logic analyser fixes this.
probably fine.

2025-04-06 03:24:52 GMT

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new webcam view feat. tangara parts
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2025-04-06 03:22:47 GMT

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main change was moving our computer out of the bedroom and into what we're now calling 'the office'. previously this room held a combination of tangara parts and an untidy pile of junk. the tangara parts are still here tho.

2025-04-06 03:21:11 GMT

the great pre-new-job room rearranging is complete...

2025-04-05 02:03:54 GMT

starting a new gig on tuesday btw! pretty exciting they're letting us be an "electronics engineer" these days!

2025-03-28 03:29:52 GMT

if u write an ogg encoder that includes albumart as a 400KiB vorbis comment then u are our personal enemy and u will not be escaping samsara

2025-03-27 02:57:34 GMT

anyone else really tired now of days? due to the times that these are?

2025-03-20 02:43:36 GMT

high quality tangara release https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.3.0

2025-03-14 05:27:45 GMT

it's quite a lot of work to make an mp3 player

2025-03-13 04:12:08 GMT

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looks goated. why 5.25v out out of interest? our guess would be you get to a 5v rail eventually via a separate ldo regulator? or do you have some cool tech that uses 5.25 specifically?

2025-03-10 03:45:51 GMT

all open hardware shops should ideally serve this level of cunt
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/136/072/418/336/124/original/e88530340f76b028.jpg

2025-03-09 20:12:29 GMT

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if you see the esp32 ‘backdoor’ news and are wondering why everyone is falling for such a nothingburger, the answer is that most people on here will believe literally any baseless made up “china bad!” bullshit. some of y’all are so committed to your sinophobia that it makes u stupid.

2025-03-09 20:12:28 GMT

so can we talk about how fucking racist fedi is whenever china or chinese people come up?

2025-03-09 07:45:26 GMT

shocking tangara backdoor allows attackers to update your device's firmware via an exploit in the 'tangara companion' app

2025-03-06 05:08:50 GMT

this is the most compsci freak we'll ever get on main, but working within the limitations of the esp32 has led to some of the most genuinely fun and interesting programming problem solving we've ever done. we imagine it's the itch that retrocomputing scratches for a lot of folks.

2025-03-05 00:46:48 GMT

honestly we really empathise with the style of open source maintainer who simply snaps and starts replying to every issue with "fuck you, make your own thing if you're so smart". we will resist the urge, but we do get it.

2025-03-04 11:49:32 GMT

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electric cars, self-driving cars, LLMs, NFTs, phones, computers, apple vision pro, oculus. it's all just fucking toys.

2025-03-04 11:46:16 GMT

what's his face was wrong, it's not "enshitiffication", it's "toys economy". capital flows exclusively in the direction of shiny toys, to the rot of everything

2025-03-04 06:28:48 GMT

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a lot of tech folks have jobs where all they do is send emails and it really shows tbh

2025-03-04 06:27:49 GMT

so how are LLMs supposed to take every job if they still can’t reliably do anything

2025-03-03 21:48:38 GMT

falsehoods programmers believe about weather:
- fahrenheit is a reasonable default
- an icon is enough information to make any decision about the whether
- global weather forecast services are accurate and reliable
thank u firefox very cool !

2025-03-01 22:19:47 GMT

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check out the ifixit coverage btw, including their masto thread.
very nice of the "repair your stuff" guys to post long justifications about how improved performance is worth sacrificing the ability to repair anything. very normal.

2025-03-01 22:13:24 GMT

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these guys have the most effective marketing + social media strategy in the entire industry

2025-03-01 22:12:58 GMT

framework computer desktop offering hailed as huge win for repairability and upgradeability
actual update paths available:
1) swap out the cooler for no reason
2) swap out 2x m2 nvme drives

2025-02-23 00:53:39 GMT

if veronica explains doesn't like tangara we may cry

2025-02-21 21:09:20 GMT

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preorders for batch 2 are available. shipping in a month or so; we’re in the assembly stage now (we finished the first 50 of batch 2 yesterday!)

2025-02-21 06:23:48 GMT

hello mastodon, please enjoy this laptop https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Laptop-CF-SV7-Lets-Notebook-Generation/dp/B0D5M77GGK?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_r=3ZSBTZPFW91J2B1KQHVM&pf_rd_p=8bafa2b8-c18e-4aff-965f-5e5bf637d2e0&pd_rd_i=B0D5M77GGK&psc=1&pd_rd_w=5IgDO&pd_rd_wg=FW5Td&pd_rd_r=dac70b94-7d82-4925-ad23-a1fdadf4116d&content-id=amzn1.sym.8bafa2b8-c18e-4aff-965f-5e5bf637d2e0

2025-02-19 04:17:05 GMT

normalise your website being down temporarily for no good reason

2025-02-18 06:09:45 GMT

tangara
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2025-02-18 00:46:05 GMT

tangara batch 2 officially begin

2025-02-12 04:10:56 GMT

👇

2025-02-06 00:40:13 GMT

https://globalcapslock.com/

2025-02-03 05:55:05 GMT

social slacks have fucked up energy. just use discord u losers. or matrix or whatever. but slack???? come on

2025-02-03 04:45:49 GMT

OH: "it's open source, not open complaints!"

2025-02-01 04:17:11 GMT

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do u know if the USDS previously had control over the all these ACL-adjacent systems elon seems to have access to now? we've been trying to get our head around how, logistically, he seems to just have the ability to lock fed employees out of systems they're meant to have access to

2025-02-01 03:52:47 GMT

so this is an actual coup rn right? like definitionally?
context: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

2025-02-01 03:15:01 GMT

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what if they're not a nazi they're just a lil annoying

2025-02-01 03:14:11 GMT

can u ban someone from your foss project for "having bad vibes" is that illegal or are we gonna get cancelled

2025-01-31 22:08:26 GMT

april fools day tangara feature: pair with your phone via bluetooth to receive notifications on your tangara

2025-01-31 05:21:16 GMT

u can put stickers on your #tangara btw they stick well
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2025-01-31 05:09:18 GMT

not to be too On One but the thing about these rust-hostile linux kernel guys is that it's also just such a waste of an opportunity to learn rust? like if you're a kernel maintainer, and someone sends you a rust patch, you can ask *endless* questions about language features you don't understand. you have a community of very engaged engineers very much incentivized to teach you how to read and write rust. and what do some of these guys do? they stick their noses up at it. what a waste!!

2025-01-31 05:02:54 GMT

we were told there were roaming bands of rust evangelists willing to do work for us for free just for the love of the game. where are they!!!

2025-01-31 04:43:42 GMT

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has someone written a portable fatfs implementation in rust yet? please do that for us for tangara, it would be very helpful to have a better fatfs implementation and rust is a good language for that sort of thing

2025-01-31 04:42:10 GMT

if someone tried to introduce rust code to tangara we would say "can you please give us a rough sense of the binary size + memory impact of this?", then we would make sure the toolchain setup is easy, and then we would say "okay cool thank u merging now"

2025-01-28 05:21:06 GMT

it's so funny when people describe something about their tangara as being "from the factory". well known industrial factory "jacquelines' living room"

2025-01-28 01:16:07 GMT

EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542) is trying to ruin our life at this time

2025-01-27 22:40:44 GMT

oh 250 more tangaras shipped since friday apparently. neat!

2025-01-26 21:52:08 GMT

suppose you have a desktop computer. how often are u turning that thing off?

2025-01-26 05:02:30 GMT

plant
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2025-01-23 08:39:57 GMT

trying to think of our next bad technical take. any ideas?