I have a product that I love. It failed outside of warranty. I emailed their support asking if there was anything I could do to fix it myself. They just issued a replacement item. Or, I could have publicly flamed them on social media. That would have shown them!

This weekend, I worked on my Helsinki Regional Transit Departures app for #Pebble. Coming soon: 🚋 Toggles between route number and destination with a short timer! 🚌 No longer constrained to just Helsinki; will support all of 🇫🇮 Finland and 🇪🇪 Estonia, since they use the same API!

LLM be like, "Yo dawg. I heard you like functions and methods, so I put a method inside a function so you can call the method with a function."

Lately when text chatting with friends, instead of wasting electricity on AI image generation, I've just been saying: "Imagine me Scrooge McDuck diving into a pit full of identical multi-port USB-PD power adapters." Saves electricity, but burns glucose. I wonder which is worse.

Dad had a 386 running Windows 3.1. Playing this and Skifree are some of very, very first memories of using a computer and playing video games of any kind.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Back at work for two days; already struggling with wrist pain from mouse and keyboard work. Mechanical split keyboard, ergonomic trackball mouse from Logitech. Not sure what else I can improve.

I randomly stumbled across @tantacrul.bsky.social's video about Audacity 4. Two thoughts: 1. Wow. Audacity 4 Alpha 2 is shockingly easy to use. My go-to, starting now. 2. As a product manager on hiatus, this video is a masterclass in UI/UX design for mature apps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3...

A few minutes ago, here in Lapland. 🇫🇮

Pebble Round 2's platform name in the @repebble.com SDK is: Gabbro! Aplite (Classic, Steel) Basalt (Time, Time Steel) Chalk (Round) Diorite (2) Emery (Time 2) Flint (2 Duo) Gabbro (Round 2) Info about Gabbro (rock): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbro Pull request for Gabbro: github.com/coredevices/...

Pebble Round 2 exists! @thelinengirl.bsky.social and I have never ordered something so fast. It is exactly what we wanted. repebble.com/blog/pebble-...

New app for Pebble smartwatches! Punchclock is a simple "how long did I work" calculator. This is my first app that also supports Pebble Time Round and Pebble Time 2. @repebble.com App Store: apps.repebble.com/en_US/applic... @rebble.io App Store: apps.rebble.io/en_US/applic...

3 PM. The sun sets in about 5 minutes. 🇫🇮

Today's Pebble dev project: supporting all of the #Pebble screen sizes and shapes. Pebble Time 2 still needs some work but the groundwork is there.

My wife (@thelinengirl.bsky.social) knocked Christmas out of the park (again), this time with a custom-made Macintosh 128k LEGO kit designed by Chris McVeigh (chrismcveigh.com)! The logic board, analog board, floppy drive, flyback transformer… it’s all there! The accuracy and detail is insane.

The Macintosh Classic II might not be the *best* black-and-white compact Mac, but it is the *best looking*.

Even Duolingo has iconography on Pebble now! Excellent! @ericmigi.com is this coming from Pebble-Dev? Planning to add more? These icons are one of my favorite things about Pebble.

Nothing makes me feel like an information security expert like explaining what a "factor" is in authentication (something you know, something you are, something you have). I'm an idiot when it comes to infosec, btw.

I'm thinking about replacing my aging Mac Mini with a proper NAS. Primary use cases: 🔄 Time Machine backups ▶️ Plex 📷 Immich (interested) 📂 Files 🌍 Webserver (local network only) I'm in a "buy it once, buy it right" mood.

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I accidentally clicked "Schedule a meeting" in Outlook. The good news is that it didn't work.

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

I’d love to be these Doritos.

Working on a jig to cut the glue on Pebble Classic for battery replacements. Here’s the very first prototype, but dental floss breaks immediately. Fishing line, maybe?

Finally playing Halo Infinite. ✅ Open-world concept (Halo: CE lvl 2) rocks ✅ Great gunplay ✅ Solid enemy art + behavior ✅ Vehicle handling feels good ✅ The Weapon is a fun character 🚫 Unfaithful vehicle and weapon art style + sound 🚫 Combat readability impaired by art style 🚫 Overdone voice acting

Looks like Cloudflare is down. And just like that, I can't really work. Maybe consolidating all of the internet's services down to 3 or 4 major providers wasn't such a good idea?

I've added a few small things to the Interactive Spectrum Chart: 📍 Ultra-wideband with filterable 500 and 1000 MHz channels ☎️ DECT channels with geographical filtering 🖱️ A "grab" cursor when dragging the map 📡 Spectrum up to 11 GHz 💾 Access it here: spectrum.potatofi.com

No luck getting into this glued Pebble Classic to replace the battery. On my 3D print bed, under a bag of rice, I can get it to 112°C, but that’s still not quite enough to loosen the adhesive. The screen does turn pitch black at that temperature, which is interesting. #Pebble

State of the home network: 🔥 Firewall: Meraki MX75 🥧 DNS: Pi Hole, RPI 3+ and PoE HAT 🎮 Switch: Ubiquiti Switch Lite 8 PoE 🛜 APs: Meraki MR36H x3 🛜 APs: Juniper Mist AP12 x3 I'm switching between Meraki and Juniper Mist APs with a couple of API calls, depending on which I want to use.

Sometimes you're just sitting at your desk in a quiet room, and suddenly your ear starts acting like a barrel just blew up next to you in Half-Life 2.

If you have a MetaGeek Wi-Spy DBx or Ekahau Spectrum Analyzer Model III in a drawer, don't toss it yet. I don't have anything built right now, but I have some ideas for how to re-use them.

Interactive Spectrum Chart update! 🌓 Dark Mode (auto-switching with system) 🚚 Switch between OFDM, HT, and VHT subcarriers 🧑‍✈️ Solid fill for pilot subcarriers ✅ Collapsing menus 🛜 6 GHz PSCs now orange 🧵 See thread for development notes Same place: spectrum.potatofi.com

I'm thinking about letting this go for a full 365 days before fixing it.

You know that it's winter in Helsinki when your computer switches to dark mode at 4:16 PM.

Did some design-by-committee this evening. Here are the results!

Dark Mode isn't for users, it's for the developer so they can work on their application at night.

Shoutout to Chrome's "Relaunch to update" button for ruining countless documentation screenshots.

I regularly get asked, what's Halloween like in Finland? 🇫🇮 Finnish parents don't like Halloween, more work 🎃 A thing at our kids' international school 🎃 Virtually no trick/treat 🎃 Small 1-tbl display of Halloween stuff at the store 🎄 Store dominated by Christmas stuff 🎃 Big growth in the past 5 yrs

It’s tragic that iOS corrects “wifi” to WiFi and not Wi-Fi. So close.

Due to an Azure outage, Hamina is down. Rest assured that our engineering team is refreshing the Azure status page as quickly and often as possible.

This evening, I'm implementing subcarrier drawing for S1G (802.11ah) for my interactive spectrum chart. It looks like my spectral mask guesses for 1 MHz 802.11ah channels weren't quite right!

Same. The single thing I've enjoyed in the iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26 lineup is window management on iPad. Everything else about it is an inconsistent, hard-to-read mess. I'm worried that we are stuck with this, going forward.

Every day, I exchange a bunch of emails with someone to set up a meeting, when they could have just emailed me their question. Some people seem to be allergic to written communication, especially when it is asynchronous. Probably the burnout talking.

macOS 26 observation: People buy bigger screens so UI designers make bigger UIs so people buy bigger screens so UI designers make bigger UIs so people buy bigger screens so UI designers make bigger UIs so people buy bigger screens so UI designers make bigger UIs so people buy bigger screens...

A new-old-stock Nokia 6300 from eBay. I still have mine in storage in the US, but have been planning to pick up another for awhile. I carried it for 5 or 6 years. I do wonder if Elisa (Finnish carrier) offers any 2G service, and if it would be expensive. Next, I’d like to find a NOS Motorola Razr.

No Kings Protest today in front of Oodi in Helsinki at 2 PM! I’ve never been to a protest before, but it’s time. See you there? 🇫🇮🇺🇸 Organized by Democrats Abroad (I’m not a democrat but am happy to assist): www.democratsabroad.org/danafreling/...

We hit 32 nodes on Bitchat at #WLPC!

Neat show. Victims of their own success! 2 hour wait to get in, and then the hall was absolutely jam-packed. I’ll bet that they do this again, but much bigger. I’m already looking forward to it!

Today I’m headed to Finnish RetroCon in Tampere! Retrocon.fi

I guess I need to change my #WLPC talk from “Building the Wi-Fi Lab at Hamina” to “How to melt Raspberry Pi’s”.