Me: *watching ZatsuTabi* She’s going to Matsushima?! WTF is even in Matsushima? Wife: 松島や ああ松島や 松島や… Me: God dammit, how could I forget about the haiku… Anyway, totally forgot about Basho. My bad! Travel propaganda is working well and making me want to visit the place 😅

Still feels like we only just met in person yesterday at the aquarium, yet here we are 10 years together, 7 years married. Happy anniversary @naiiki.bsky.social 💞

I did the thing. Always told my wife that if I found one at a good price, I’d grab one. This thing fights me more than any other guitar, but that’s also part of its charm. Might tweak a few things, but anything I do will be 100% reversible. Was getting some killer tones with my JVM410H + EVH 4x12 😎

Nothing like seeing a candy cab pop up locally and you immediately thinking about the logistics of getting it in your basement 👀

Someday I’ll have a Suhr and Tyler to go with my Anderson. Studio guitar dream team 😎

Another blog post. This time about unsolved mysteries and AI: tomice.github.io/posts/five-y...

RIP Bill Atkinson. His contributions to the world of computers, especially GUI-related, were immense and undoubtedly shaped my entire career. HyperCard alone was such a major impact that it drove me to pursue a career in coding. Absolute legend

Fun guitar. Nearly every component has been upgraded or replaced, including frets 😅

Nothing quite as satisfying as finally finding your stupid doorbell transformer after looking in the attic (both access areas), by the electrical panel, around wood beams in the basement, in the garage. Was hidden above my work desk in the basement attached to the side of a light box this whole time

I did the nerd thing and wrote a post about it since this will actually impact me more than most: tomice.github.io/posts/undefi...

Have a sneaking suspicion I’m gonna be using the shit out of -fzero-init-padding-bits=unions in some of these old C codebases I am working with… gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/chang...

Post office on its way to losing a second package of mine now. What is going on… First one I was kinda okay with, but this second one is vintage rack gear. No longer made 😞

This took forever...but it's done! It's really difficult trying to explain this stuff to a dev who might not have hands-on experience. It's complicated and heavily intertwined with many caveats. Then again, I guess that just describes OS development as a whole. tomice.github.io/posts/back-t...

Another blog. Explaining tmp was getting way too long, so that'll be done for yet another post. It's almost as if this Back to Basics stuff is turning into a series ^^; tomice.github.io/posts/back-t...

With everything so “software driven” today in the guitar rack effects world, I’ve been looking at grabbing some classic units. Clean PCM81 by me that is super tempting. Lexicon being bought and gutted continues to be one of the greatest audio tragedies in the world. Void yet to be truly filled

This took awhile... Anyway, I made the post. Now time for sleep. tomice.github.io/posts/back-t...

Next blog post will be about the inner workings of the Yocto project whenever I manage to get to it. Figured it is better to start a cool little project first and then learn about the inner workings, rather than learn all the boring details up front.

Used to be that social media was bad for my mental health which is why I don’t post much anymore (and essentially abandoned the other platform). Now all media seems to be unbearable. 1445 days left to go… In other news, I am playing guitar a bit more, so that’s cool. 2025 release date still a go?

Last year was so much fun... so let's do this again! Bring an alt no one has seen before, so that no one knows who you are! Just wanna be yourself? No problem! Come and hang with us regardless. Maybe try to see if you can figure out who is actually who! 😉 #AltArtParty

First batch~ #cactuarap

Sakura. #cactuarAP #FFXIVScreenshots #gposes #GPOSERS #XIVAPSnaps #elvashade

Lots of people buying new CPUs and GPUs, but they leave their ancient monitors alone. And yet, monitor tech is advancing insanely fast right now. Basically in a panel boom with major breakthroughs almost every year. QDEL and MicroLED right around the corner.

Funeral went well. Military did a great job honoring my dad, and people gave heartfelt speeches. After party at the house celebrating his life with family was a great way to catch up with family, friends, and neighbors. Still miss ya, dad

Just buttoned up my tutorial on how to make a DNS sinkhole (Pi-Hole) for a BeagleBone Black with Yocto: tomice.github.io/posts/creati... Probably only going to do a few more tutorials on this before I set it aside and work on other projects.

Might take a break from the BBB a little bit while I work on other things. This month will be extremely busy, unfortunately. We’ll see…

Tutorial on how to add Linux device drivers to a Yocto-based system using the BeagleBone Black as example hardware: tomice.github.io/posts/integr...

Turning your BeagleBone Black into a mini webserver with lighttpd in your own custom Yocto layer: tomice.github.io/posts/creati...

Updated rack. Still slotting stuff in so wiring not totally done

The more I dig into this, the more it’s obvious how broken some of the meta-ti layer is. I’m having to fix a lot of broken or incorrect code. Starting to see why there are so many people who struggle to use this layer in their projects.

Looks like there’s an issue with the ti-sgx-ddk-um user mode libs for the BBB. Post install script let can’t find rc.pvr and bombs. Adjusted the recipe and got a workaround for it to compile, but userland is still kinda borked. And of course, it’s after 1 am, and I’m gonna think about this all night

New blog post up. This time, it's about building a basic embedded Linux image for the BeagleBone Black using Yocto. Can be done in WSL2 with a default Ubuntu install, so give it a shot if you're ever bored: tomice.github.io/posts/beginn...

Not even BF yet, and I already spent way too much on random shit due to all the deals popping up ^^;

Wife got me an early Christmas present 😊

The fact that people need to resort to 3rd party utils to remove UAD plugins they don’t use in their DAW (or do this manually) is wild. As a Logic user, I really wish I didn’t have to install VST and AAX variants. Also wish it didn’t install plugins I don’t own. I get why, but it should be optional

Win 11 update went smoother than expected. No broken applications. Configured it to look like 10, so I barely notice much of a difference now. Not bad at all. Will need to test recording soon, but it seems like there’ll be basically no difference. Way less painful than 7 to 10 was

Dying Fetus and Black Dahlia tonight 😎 Should be fun!

New PC setup. 9800X3D with my old RTX3080. Removed the custom loop and went back to an AIO due to GPU length issues. I’m also too lazy to maintain the loop as properly as I’d like. OCD issues. Slapped it together for now. Like every project in my life, it’s still a work in progress.

On a different topic, next blog post will be getting started with embedded Linux whenever I manage to get some free time to sit down and write it. Cross-compiling Linux from scratch with industry-standard tools and open HW, integrating a popular app and running it on your home network

Not me stalking audio plugin sites waiting for the best BF deals of the year 😶‍🌫️

Voting stickers going hard this year

Slowly getting there. Once all the stuff is here, I’ll clean up the wiring.

This is what happens when I fall into a rabbit hole of "That's interesting, I wonder why..." tomice.github.io/posts/lookin...

Seeing a lot of people posting old computers on here and using them to draw art. Part of me wants an old Mac SE again. Was the first computer my dad let me use back when I was 4. It had a 9600 baud modem, and we were using either Compuserve or Prodigy for internet. Fun times

I’m a sucker for free stuff. 8+ pfSense firewalls for a free switch? Don’t mind if I do 👀

Trying to make a simple blog. Ruby too old to install Jekyll. I can 1) Uninstall the OS supported package and manage Ruby myself 2) …Upgrade my entire OS… …So anyway, see-ya 20.04. You were basically EOL’d anyway. The shit I do to write a simple website just to test out a blog out of boredom 💀

I think the solution is to code more stuff at home while I wait to code more stuff at work 😶‍🌫️

Took bereavement, but it kinda sucks. Have a major program due end of the year. Managed to figure out a way past all the prelim integration issues we’ve been having with their legacy SW, and I wanna implement that ASAP to begin vehicle testing. It’s gonna be on my mind until Thurs 🥲

Was also the first time I got to use my real bass in a recording, so that was fun. Will prob go this route for my upcoming 2025 album

Should use this more since a certain someone is running another platform into the ground. Too exhausted to sad post, so here’s the other last thing I posted: Got an EBMM Majesty 8. Amazing quality. Wrote a quick clip using the lowest Drop E and highest 24th fret e: m.soundcloud.com/hatsubai/ebm...

Something something you should promote across all social media platforms. Anyway! Shameless self promo, but my first album with my band just went live on Bandcamp and all major streaming platforms. It’s death metal if anyone is interested in listening: ealdorman.bandcamp.com/album/ourobo...