halftime show??? shoulda been a fulltime show am I right

Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans

We're working on patience and politeness and saying "please" with the 3YO but we have one exception which is that she's categorically allowed to tell any adult to "put your phone away"

I drew the legend @itseieio.bsky.social for secret santa this year so I made him a handheld, consolized version of One Million Checkboxes. It's still multiplayer, the units sync up wirelessly! the LEDs up top show you which checkbox is currently selected

“we asked Grok” you should ask The Lord for forgiveness

Infinite collaborative word search words.zip

Guess we were extra good this year

open a terminal and type `ssh tiny.christmas`

Me: *staring into vending machine for a while* Wife: "do you... want a snack?" Me: "no, I want a vending machine"

🥴🥴🥴😭

Couldn't decide on a photo this year so I decided to record a whole-ass video essay and attach it to an augmented reality holiday card that I can update remotely each year

say hi to the Memory Cloud: an ultra-personal cloud library granular synthesizer that turns your memories into musical material youtu.be/O04mHHChG2U

Automating holiday cheer with a single Python script that pulls an address from a spreadsheet, validates/formats it with USPS data, generates an envelope SVG, and then plots it out.

I am obsessed with the fact that you can put ~60 lines of Python onto a $2 WiFi microcontroller board and get yourself a IoT sensor complete with custom hostname and HTTP endpoint. Works great with Home Assistant if you use the REST integration!! Shoutout always to @circuitpython.org

Android logs said 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ tonight

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Three-year-old just referred to Frozen as "that cold video"

Glowies are now available online! This is our new line of rechargeable jewelry made out of fun LED shapes. We can make any as a necklace, earrings, or lobster claws for clipping onto hoops (great for folks who put hoops thru their gauges). www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

PROMPT: Athletes have signature shoes, guitarists have signature model guitars... YOU - fellow electronics person - what would your signature model development board look like? MCU, form factor, sensors, etc.? (This is not going anywhere, I'm genuinely curious)

Made a Slack-o-lantern that hits you with the Slack notification sound and logo when you walk by. 👻 now baAAck toOOO WooOOrk 👻

There is a very funny, Leslie Knope-ass opportunity for this person's political opponents that would require nothing more than a Sharpie, a question mark, and an exclamation point

For the past few weeks instead of reading the news i have been making a handheld game console. It has a 1.7" display and a 400Mhz CPU. The front is a trackpad. It does not go online. It does one thing (plays Go), and hopefully does that better than anything else that fits in a coin pocket.

I'll be joining these two in about 30 mins (8:20)!! Come hang

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This project got me so jazzed on laundry that I actually got the the bottom of my bin for the first time in probably 15 years

Started the process of open-sourcing all of this last night! Still got some TODOs in the repo but it's all going up here: github.com/dupontgu/diy...

We’ll be bringing all of these to Maker Faire Bay Area next weekend! They can be finished as a necklace, fish hook earrings, or lobster claw earrings for hooking onto hoops, your choice. #glowies #alpenglowies #ledjewelry #makerfaire #mfba2025 #makerfairebayarea

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Unexpected data leakage: I threw a BME680 in kid's room so we can keep better track of temps as it gets colder. This is derived from the gas sensor. Can you guess when we left our daughter in bed and when we went to go grab her in the morning?

🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill... and play around with it: fillharmonics.com

I've had very good experiences with the common I2S (INMP441) and now PDM (MP34DT01) MEMS microphone modules, but I am left wondering: are there no unidirectional (or at least, more directional out-of-the-box) small, embeddable mics?

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Where was my invite to the meeting when we decided that it was OK to just put *mid-sentence* cuts in video. I know folks are using auto-editors and this is probably a byproduct of that but dear lord is it distracting. I would much rather hear you say "um" than fucking glitch out on screen

I have absolutely no idea what this is going to do to my server but if you would like your own command line virtual pet, simply run: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 2222 [email protected]

What shell is everybody using these days? I just switched to Tamagotchi P1

A rare practical project from me. I live in a building with ~16 units and we all share 2 washers/2 dryers. Very annoying to go all the way down to basement just to find out they're in use. So I'm putting together a low maintenance, non-invasive monitoring setup we can all use 🧵

Guy Economy

it's very cool seeing folks play with the atproto stuff. Been thinking about doing some long(er) form writing and @leaflet.pub is calling me (awesome work @schlage.town )

You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself.

spent a bunch of time with Docker Compose for both work and non-work the past few weeks... and I really love it. I tend to do a bunch of "full stack" stuff that I run locally.

I'm kinda in love with the Tachyon! Easy setup. I know exactly what I'm gonna do for a first project. Let me know what I should try with it (might take a minute, I'm away from home). And disclaimer - Particle kindly sent to me to play with.

honestly a little relieved to hear the FDA is still warning us about things?

I'd like someone to explain why I can write code with music on but not English

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overdue to get my shit kicked in at a show so I am very excited to see The Armed tonight. New album rocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU5z...

Meseems that it will make it halfway soon. I would bet eightpence on it.

Want to make a wearable LED project? We’ve got some new helper boards in the shop! Our LED Buddies make it super easy to add USB power and an Electromage Pixelblaze Pico to any project with addressable LEDs, particularly the flexible Pebble-style ones. www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

Related - I feel like I finally got my personal "IT" setup working really well. Remote access to every machine, automatic backups, etc. I'm running a large database dump and I was able to get around the throttling by just running part of the job on my old windows machine at home.