Nick (Rucas) Price @dominotree@mastodon.sdf.org

A refreshing evening beverage

Slowly reimplementing the full Casio SK-1 schematic in KiCad

Interesting GNOME bug

I have some thoughts about AWS Elasticsearch (namely that it's awful)

https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-implementation/

Sales engineer is a contradiction in terms

Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in my Guest Bedroom, part 2: Assembly

https://spun.io/2019/02/07/lessons-from-running-a-small-scale-electronics-factory-in-my-guest-bedroom-part-2-assembly/

Is there a good tracker for FLAC rips these days?

Doing a presentation at work next week that will involve some live-coding and possibly a small slide deck. Any tips?

*decide to add a new feature to an open-source project*
*read the source*
*realize the feature exists*
*rinse, repeat*

In which Cisco blacklists curl in user-agent strings to 'fix' unauthenticated command injection on some of its devices

https://twitter.com/RedTeamPT/status/1110843396657238016

One thing in particular strikes me - the "Y" at the bottom-left. It put two of the traces at 45-degree offsets to slightly shorten the length of the trace feeding them and the overall trace length on the board.

It really doesn't just optimize for vias.

Honestly, I'm pretty damn impressed with how Freerouting autorouted these new boards

Decided to go in a bit of a different direction

Omg the hardware actually all worked on the first try

Fixed my measurement issue