Taking a closer look at the CD4029 Pre-settable Binary/Decade Up/Down Counter, and testing it out with a basic counter circuit. leap.tardate.com/electronics1... #electronics

Homecoming - another safe return. A little vignette idea featuring figures from ICM in 1:48 and a Lancaster and Spitfires from Pit-Road in 1:700. modelart.tardate.com/projects/raf... #histscalemodels #scalemodels #icm #pitroad

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: sort HTML color codes without using any built-ins. Seems so trivial one could just hard-code it, but don't do that! Good opportunity to go back to algorithm school with little #ruby and some benchmarking.. codingkata.tardate.com/ruby/html-co...

Zooming in on an LM339 non-inverting comparator at lower frequencies: there's a bucket load of oscillation at crossover... here's how some positive feedback fixes that! leap.tardate.com/electronics1... #electronics

When you find a broken 5 cent give-away laser pointer in the back of a drawer, you just bin it, right? Of course not! leap.tardate.com/equipment/hp... #electronics

Just testing IR photodiodes.. leap.tardate.com/electronics1... #electronics

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: get busy in the kitchen! Back to #ruby to write some production planning algorithms.. codingkata.tardate.com/ruby/max-mea...

very satisfying little kit😁 .. some #electronics just for fun. leap.tardate.com/electronics1...

Gloster Javelin FAW.9R (XH893) 64 Sqn, operating from RAF Tengah in 1965, before being donated to Singapore as "SAFTECH-6" in 1968. modelart.tardate.com/projects/raf... #histscalemodels #scalemodels #48scale

Probably better translated as "Escape Route". No wonder Europeans have trouble understanding anything east of the Danube.

Some wonderful curiosities in the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge finalists. Using a resonant length of coax as a boost converter really tickles my sense of the absurdly genius! hackaday.com/2025/11/18/c... #electronics

"LLMs are simply not fit for purpose… very few proposed applications are both allowed to be wrong and can operate safely on untrusted input … The gigawatt data center is [a] dead end. When AI hype-bubble bursts, they are…multi-billion-$ white elephants full of chips that are best simply turned off"

Aichi E11A Type 98 on reconnaissance. This is the Fujimi 1:72 kit, motorised and mounted #PlanesInFrames! modelart.tardate.com/projects/ijn... #histscalemodels #scalemodels #72scale #ijn

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

I wonder if all these advertisers with AI-generated ads or AI-generated voice on YouTube, Cable etc realise we all immediately scramble for the the "skip" link while screaming "aw, just fuck off!!!". Anything AI-generated or AI-adjacent is fast becoming toxic.

Mounting and final motor test for the #Fujimi 1:72 Aichi E11A Type 98 Reconnaissance Seaplane. This going into the #mmpnavalaircraft gb. Hopefully wrap it up tomorrow! #scalemodels #72scale

Battle of Tarawa, 1943: US Marines land on Betio and engage forces including the 7th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force that fight virtually to the last man. A scene with 1:35 figures from Master Box. modelart.tardate.com/projects/wwi... #scalemodels #usmc #ijn

PCBWay 8th design contest is accepting submissions until 2026-01-31. Based on previous years, very interested to see what people are entering this time.. www.pcbway.com/activity/8th... #electronics

Need more practice with car finishes! This is the classic Subaru 360 Young-SS from the 60s, and the Hasegawa 1:24 kit is a great easy-to-build reproduction. modelart.tardate.com/projects/jap...

solving Sudoku with #Prolog... it's perfectly suited for this! codingkata.tardate.com/prolog/sudoku/

Prolog ..old, but surprisingly still relevant codingkata.tardate.com/prolog/about/

results from the 2025 rowhammer survey are out. 12.5% vulnerable to fully-automated Rowhammer attacks, with interesting differences between DRAM manufacturers codingkata.tardate.com/security/row... #security

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: plant some scarecrows. Been a while, but trying some #haskell this week! codingkata.tardate.com/haskell/plac...

Taking a fresh look at #Prolog... codingkata.tardate.com/prolog/about/

How many MoDs are now "we bought into the F-35 program on sound technical and financial reasons. Nobody expected to be complicit in a genocide!" I'm pretty sure Ukraine's Gripen deal is 50% capability and 50% escape the need to tug one's forelock to Washington at every step. Others to follow?

Oooh! The library has new 3D printers, They've upgraded the "MakeIt" labs to Bambu P1S and I saw some of the prints people were doing.. the quality and resolution is remarkable for filament. Is it now close enough to resin to be usable for #scalemodel purposes? I'll have to try!

Windows and Dell/Intel firmware updates broke my Windows-Ubuntu dual boot again. Seems like a UEFI update issue. Ubuntu Boot-Repair to the rescue! codingkata.tardate.com/ubuntu/boot-...

uv is the best thing to happen for the #python ecosystem in forever🎉 Well thought out and implemented, it makes managing environments, dependencies, and projects a treat. codingkata.tardate.com/python/uv/

suggestion: let's standardise our commit messages and review comments! It should improve understanding, enable tooling and automation, and also be faster to write because we have a pattern to follow. See "Conventional Commits" and "Conventional Comments" codingkata.tardate.com/methods/conv...

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: split a string by widths. Taking advantage of #ruby flexible and forgiving array and string processing! codingkata.tardate.com/ruby/split-b...

A neat little kit available for pennies, using the STC15W201/STC15W204 8051-compatible µC. Very clever multiplexing scheme! leap.tardate.com/electronics1... #electronics

Looking at the elegant ways of building singletons with #ruby. Take note, I'm only going to post this once... codingkata.tardate.com/ruby/singlet...

Painting up the Water Line Series IJN Tugger Set. Not the most detailed examples, but still great "scatter" for port/dock dioramas! modelart.tardate.com/projects/ijn... #scalemodels #700scale

The Chengdu J-10S of the Ba Yi Aerobatics Team 八一飞行表演队 with the team's first female pilots 盛懿绯, 余旭, 陶佳莉, and 何晓莉 who joined the team in 2013. Sadly 余旭 passed away in a 2016 fatal training accident. Spirit soaring... modelart.tardate.com/projects/pla... #scalemodels #72scale #plaaf

adding Context7 MCP to most of my coding contexts! GenAI/LLMs without good data == creative shit codingkata.tardate.com/tools/ai/con... #a1

Like many, I mourned the shutdown of Pivotal Tracker back in April 2025. But I was able to smoothly migrate all my ongoing PT activity to alternatives. Here's the story of the solutions I checked out, and what I'm using now... blog.tardate.com/2025/10/afte...

Finally, the Kotare 1/32 Hurricane Mk.I (Early) pre-order is open! I've been increasingly tempted by the scale as I've seen their Spits and 109s in production. But I've been waiting for my fave 1940 subject to drop ever since I heard it teased😁 www.kotare-models.com/products/k32...

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: read and format csv data. I used this opportunity to review #rust csv support options and factoring for console IO testing. codingkata.tardate.com/rust/csv-to-...

Trumpeter catalog updated, couple of new releases this month including 1:72 M1132 Stryker and 1:16 Tiger II. NB: this is my "fast mirror" of the real thing. trumpeter-catalog.tardate.com #trumpeter #scalemodels

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: batching logs. Tackled in #ruby. codingkata.tardate.com/ruby/group-c...

Fairey Flycatcher stationed at HMS Hermes, China Station, 1930. This is the Armory Model Group kit in 1:48, with a hand carved prop and wood decals by ProperPlane of #Ukraine. All upstaged by a couple of cheeky seagulls. modelart.tardate.com/projects/roy... #histscalemodels #scalemodels #48scale

Blackburn Buccaneer S.2C; brilliant 2019 tooling from Airfix. An ugly brute, but pretty magnetic when tooling around the sea at 60 feet! I think also the only time I've used the so-called "invisible" acrylic rod conceit😆 modelart.tardate.com/projects/roy... #histscalemodels #scalemodels #72scale

All the wonderful ways of handling command line args with the #ruby standard library codingkata.tardate.com/ruby/cli-opt...

Matsu-class Destroyer Sakura (桜). Fujimi 1:700 KISS build: no PE or rigging but replaced some newer parts and couldn't *not* fix the stern profile once I'd seen the issue! modelart.tardate.com/projects/ijn... #ijn #histscalemodels #scalemodels #700scale

I built up the Airfix 1:76 Bedford QLT & QLD trucks the other day. Mainly for fun and hopefully a diorama if I can find some suitable troops. I don't want pointing, running, jumping, or shooting.. just bored and sitting please! modelart.tardate.com/projects/bri... #histscalemodels #scalemodels

Just testing a classic CD4011 touch switch circuit. Resistor values are important (and probably environment-specific) leap.tardate.com/electronics1... #electronics

This week's @cassidoo.co challenge: finding out how easy it is to overflow while calculating a hyperfactorial. codingkata.tardate.com/rust/hyperfa... #rust

Some notes on my experience trialing Base44 for no-code AI-driven app generation. codingkata.tardate.com/tools/ai/bas...

The GM FM-2 Wildcat. A "Sweet" little 1:144 kit, with motorised in-flight conversion. Snuck this into the MMP Naval GB modelart.tardate.com/projects/usa... #histscalemodels #scalemodel #144scale #micromachinespodcast #navalaircraftgroupbuild

wtf has YouTube done to their UI. "Minimize" is no longer a thing supported by the corporate overlords?