my mum got physics for christmas

post like an impressionist who's putting paint onto a canvas but the canvas is huge and nothing will ever be complete or polished and we're all going to die, we're all just trying to find these little ways to connect with people. we have to share in vignettes. we're running out of paint

hm

transition goal achieved: wore tinsel in my hair at christmas. made me really happy :3

OH: electrical engineering today is really just an advanced form of shopping

"sorry we'll be late, i routed the entire pcb upside down and only realised when i got to the edge connector"

music players should have a listen-to-every-song-twice mode

hm. i would like a knitted sweater that says JINGLE BELLS on it and has a block diagram of FM synthesis with a quick decay on the modulating oscillator

i think one part of my brain is responsible for putting me in a particular location, and a completely unrelated part is responsible for figuring out all the stuff i can get done while i'm there. these two parts seem to have absolutely no internal communication

friend: "I can tell that it's *intentional*" best review i've heard :D

made a tune

No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning...

the opening crawl for 2026 is gonna suck IT IS A PERIOD OF TENSION AND INCREASING UNREST. ALL NATIONS ARE HEADED BY MANIACS. BILLIONAIRES STILL EXIST FOR SOME REASON

dead

the trouble with being multilingual for computer languages, you can be reading documentation for something and it makes total sense. but something doesn't feel right and you get that feeling where things should fit together but don't. and *eventually* you're like wait this is the wrong language

girls just want 20 M6 10mm OD × 1mm washers in opaque white nylon, a variety of 0402 smt leds and a ø 10mm HSS endmill

"does ___ belong at pride?" if you get yelled at by the westboro baptist church, you belong at pride

girls just want 0.39" 14-segment single character led displays with frosted epoxy segments, light grey front panels, and NS107S-2020 leds inside

"test trains ran through the area to find if that section in particular was door-opening inducing, nothing was found" buddy you gotta have adjacent trains running fast in the opposite direction. give me 0 trains, give me 12 trains, give me one trains sideways, give me -1 trains, give me NaN trains

ladies

what's everyone up to? i am eating a block of cheese

hm nobody's complained about my terminal prompt being a semicolon for like, over two years now

man i sure wish there were a search engine that would make up plausible-looking but completely incorrect search results

#Reproduction was the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – were produced from their "parent" or parents. There were two forms of reproduction: asexual and sexual.

some presents i have given that were failures:

why is it called console.log if it runs in linear time?

complimented somebody today and they literally jumped up and down with glee, made my day

WAKE UP hahgahglahghughlahaha MAKEUP hsduaasjhuhagaghaghaj SHAKEUP whywuguhguhlduhahtable WANTEDTO grugorbrurbrugoglogug WANEDTO haufhufhalauhfuha WANTETO

i fed my pitch sequence into a saw mod instead of into the oscillator frequency

new tshirt, fuck yea @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

man these quizzes nail it. "Content not viewable in your region" is *exactly* my ace ass in a poly relationship

chess is a game about rearranging hats

tdor doesn't get easier huh. thinking of people whose faces will always be young

environmental storytelling

something i have tried to explain a few times, when people see crashes (panics, asserts, segfaults, whatever) as "bad": when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.

Practice so you're ready.

Kate you're supposed to stop when you get to 0 kitchens.

guess who's got a hammer and -1 kitchens :D

okay i watched THE PRESTIGE and i have a theory. gonna rot13 it for spoilers. my theory is: gur pybar znpuvar qbrfa'g qb nalguvat. gur thl unf yvxr n uhaqerq vqragvpny gjva oebguref

drawing 7-segment displays is harder than i thought

there should be some kinda way to do things

gotta drill through an external wall. is it morally okay to drop lumps of stone on people below? 100% if the downstairs neighbours are trans girls they'll be like "uwu drop rocks on me queen"

I was trying to figure out SVG measurements for laser cutting 3mm material. It turns out that SVG units are defined as 1/96 inch. This is not ok.

accidentally learnt how inches work. fuck you, electronics

hm. i ate a bowl of broccoli as a snack. would be completely unfathomable to child me

my most woke opinion is probably that all of my other opinions are normal

i miss the hellthread. that was a fun time

the boost in the sense of competence for owning a left-handed drill bit when you need one. here i successfully extracted a cammed-out countersunk screw without damage to the panel, what a mood boost

from the adhd group chat: > Thought “I’ll have a quick 15 minute sit down before going out to get mould spray” at half past eleven. I’m still here. Watched two feature films. In Welsh. I don’t speak Welsh.

accidentally made friends with a guy who owns 200 computer keyboards