Hugops to everyone dealing with the aws outage.

Took me a couple of hours to figure out how to publish to my own blog (lol lmao), but finally published this prodlog.xyz/posts/hittin...

If you spend time in the terminal, try bat, a replacement for cat (yes, I know that sounds utterly deranged) It adds syntax highlighting and Git integration, but still works like cat in when piped with other programs. Alias it to cat! Great for peeking at readmes, code, logs, etc

Solution was to create a new ssl context (not reuse the default) and then add the cert to it. I’ll write up a blog post on this tomorrow

Working on a project with a @pimoroni.com pico plus 2w that needs to access APIs at multiple domains. I am seeing that circuitpython might have issues with accessing multiple https websites on the same program… does anybody have workarounds for this?

My neighborhood tech meetup started a 5-week sprint for personal projects. It’s been great meeting every Thursday to share progress, swap ideas, and get inspired by what everyone’s building. Great motivator! I’ve caught myself coding late on Wednesdays just to have something to demo 😅

I want to write about how developers can collaborate better with folks they work with regularly. Starting with product managers. I would love to chat with you if you’re a PM

Oh yeah I wouldn’t have caught this until later without unit tests. Write your unit tests kids!

My coding clanker hallucinated about a very basic method for Django transactions. I then had to spend more tokens fixing its lie. Feels like a scam

Why even publish this wtaf

On my on call rotation at work this week. First night on Monday was awful and now my sleep schedule is screwed 😭 Hopefully it gets back to normal by the time this week ends

What’s a quick way to go to a specific window of an app in macOS? Looking for something other than cycling between windows with cmd+’ I basically need to navigate quickly between different windows of my ide

fzf might be of interest if you're not already familiar alias fcd='cd "`fzf --walker=dir`"' github.com/junegunn/fzf

True, but only if your agent doesn’t delete the failing tests and confidently say “All tests are passing now 💪

I love tools that are “invisible” and do one thing well. zoxide is a great example. It replaces cd in the terminal, remembers the directories I visit most, and lets me jump to them with just a few letters. I use it all the time! It saves me time and keystrokes, without making me think about it.

Just soldered 4 5m long LED strips together. Not a fun time.

Got my shipment of led strips and controllers earlier than expected from aliexpress! Time to play with them

Started playing with onshape last night as a form of productive procrastination. It’s quite nice!

Started a new gig a few months ago. I was very nervous going in because I haven’t been new at a company in many years. Finally starting to get my confidence back!

I need to design the model for a scale that can hold a load cell with a plate to hold an object to weigh. But I can’t get myself to begin

A big reason for loving programming for me was the ability to go into flow state. That’s becoming difficult to achieve for me in this world of agentic coding. How are folks working around this problem?

A big reason for loving programming for me was the ability to go into flow state. That’s becoming difficult to achieve for me in this world of agentic coding. How are folks working around this problem?

I sometimes worked really long hours in my twenties. I can’t do that anymore. When I did do it in my 20s, without fail I would soon find out that my output was awful and I had to eventually redo it or fix a bunch of things.

The very best developers I know are still figuring things out, and they are getting some good results, but they are still figuring it out. Critically, they are finding how to make AI work for themselves, but no where near the confidence to say “This is the Way”.

I will pack the randoms, but to help me avoid forgetting stuff I have started creating a checklist in obsidian and also create a copy of it. I check off the original list as I pack and then go through the copy an hour before leaving for the airport.

Wild that some googler was able to get this pull request approved and merged

Used parchment paper instead of the regular liner for my banneton for proofing sourdough. Worst looking loaves I’ve cooked since i started bread making

Got a cheap used dell xps from a friend. Using it to experiment with stuff I wouldn’t put on my daily driver (mbp). Any ideas for things I could do with it? I use arch, btw.

I managed to fuck up soldering the multiple times. Humbling (and frustrating) experience.

I’ve been playing around with building LLM driven flows using Amazon and Anthropic models on AWS Bedrock and boy those executions are *expensive*

Signed up for a challenge to complete 31 miles in May. Of course I procrastinated till the last week. Now need to do 10 miles in 2 days. I have a 5k scheduled for Saturday, so there’s at least that.

Pewdiepie engineering arc is an interesting development. First linux, and now rpi m.youtube.com/watch?v=pgeT...

I used to be an early adopter of new hardware tech, but nowadays I find myself saying “eh, I will wait a few iterations before getting that”

Placed an order for corne keyboard parts from typeractive. I was considering building an ergonaut one but went with corne because its just generally more popular

brain rot from vibe coding is real

Sourdough bake day. Trying to improve my scoring skills. This is one of my better attempts.

Why is my bird identification app sending me drip emails?

Waiting for some wires and stuff to be delivered. Started playing with Fritzing while I wait. Is there anyway to validate a fritzing diagram? Using a pi pico.

its kinda difficult to differentiate between windows in mission control when using dark mode and catpuccin-ish themes for all my apps

Started a new round of civ 6 last night. Huge mistake.

Finished my Adafruit Playground on the Universal BLE Remote with Keyboard Featherwing that I've been hacking on for the last couple of weeks. If you have a Keyboard Featherwing and an nRF52840 Feather, CircuitPython source is also available. Check it out! adafruit-playground.com/u/squid_jpg/...

Submitted the extension for review to the chrome web store

Upgrading this project with a atmospheric sensor and mosfets for power control. I had to update the enclosure to include the new components. This time I had to print 4 prototypes to get to the final version (yellow in picture below)I was happy with

I’ve been working on a slightly complicated browser extension and keeping track of all the different events being emitted is hurting my brain

I have been playing around Jetbrains Junie for the past week or so and I am really impressed with what it can do. I have also played a bunch with Cursor for a couple of months. Very cool tools. But if I use them too often they suck the joy out of programming for me.

Continuing this saga, I managed to switch this component on/off using a mosfet! First time using a mosfet so yay! Took multiple days because I refused to solder on header pins, so boo!

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

Wasted an hour and half writing custom circuitpython code for a component because I thought the adafruit provided library wasn’t working with the component (bme280 breakout board made by smartelex)

Followed this @adafruit.com tutorial (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF_P...) to learn how to model to 3d print a snap fit enclosure. This one is to house a Pico W with 3 buttons to interact with it.

Finally finished this project, going from a janky prototype of a RP2040 Pico W on a breadboard to designing a 3d printed enclosure for it and soldering all the components. Pretty proud of the outcome, considering its my first electronics/microcontroller (and first "big" 3d printing) project.