RT @dmitrygr: I am so glad they clarified this

RT @ibelings: Been tinkering with a web app to track Starlink DTC satellites using a 4x4 phased array at 1992.5 MHz. Starlink’s fast-moving….

I recall being on a bus in Brixton when everyone’s phones went off at once and we were all told to get out pronto. Sad business, including the whole Brazilian shooting incident.

I have wondered for a while if the NeGcon is one of those ideas that should be tried again.

RT @djyt: Are we nearly there yet? Yes.

RT @PcPhilanthropy: Apple CarPlay v0.01

How programmers impress other programmers.

When I was with them almost 20 years ago that system consisted of seeing if you could read barcodes off mobile phone screens of that era. Turned out you could, so then they leveraged their crypto knowledge to come up with a mechanism that worked as tickets.

This is good news on several levels. The Masabi system is very good and Montreal has a pressing need to improve at this.

A former employer of mine, Masabi, won the transit ticketing contract for Montreal.

RT @tomasmcguinness: I think I just triggered the Predator’s self destruct sequence

There's a curious phenomenon with Web APIs where the moment they become stable the interest in them goes off a cliff. WebGL and WebRTC being the classics, which are now both highly usable, and not many people seem to care.

I have a serious love/hate thing going with traefik. It's absolutely brilliant and inspired, but eventually a lot of the middleware just gets in the way, in the wrong way.

The temptation to procrastinate by porting large parts of the recent embedded code to Rust on RISC V may prove too much. The problem is what I want to do would need the std just for the discriminant access. Needs some thinking.

This is where I wish I could post what's in my garage!.

RT @yacineMTB: why is every smart software person i know about getting into electronics and hardware all of a sudden? even pewdiepie is doi….

I would like to comment on the Google Cloud post mortem, but it's dumbfoundingly bad:

The only way for humanity to avoid the AI apocalypse involves you all giving me your money.

RT @djyt: The latest issue of ZZAP! Amiga has a lengthy article about my upcoming port of OutRun to the Amiga. Go and grab a copy: https://….

In this age of AI agents coding the old UNIX sysadmin colleague motto "Documentation is the enemy of job security" rings more true than ever.