Blenster @Blenster@qoto.org

you know how they say if you're stuck, to sleep on it? last night I reached a stopping point with a text display API that I wasn't wild about, but then I tossed it to the Sensor Watch discord chat. overnight, folks discussed and one suggested something way better that I was able to implement first thing this morning. Community is everything; you'll never make it on your own.

If anyone was wondering about the tokenization I referred to in my last post, here’s the thread I wrote about it last year.
https://mstdn.social/@alpenglow/111336992627871700

I had this same experience two years ago, saw that no effort was made last year, plus that whole cool thing where they decided to tokenize my 2022 talk as an example of their “diversity” right before 2023’s event. 🙄. Which is why I’m also not attending Supercon anymore. If you want to catch an epic hacker con that’s incredibly fun and has a variety of talks, topics, and people, I suggest Teardown.
https://hachyderm.io/@stargirl/113159462427967016

The Kraken lurks in the depths, waiting to mesmerize you with its color-changing cephalopodan chromatophores, and it's back in stock in my @tindie store!
https://www.tindie.com/products/24917

Haiku in bakery window:
“Life is uncertain,
tomorrow never promised.
Eat dessert first.”

said this to someone on my discord on the topic of making open hardware products; felt relevant to share:

it's hard to do these things at all, it's excruciatingly hard to do them well, and it can be overwhelming, in every sense of the word, to do these things in the open. at teardown another maker told me that making open hardware is a lot like getting punched repeatedly in the face, so, yeah: i have mad respect for anyone who braves all that and gets an actual product over the finish line.

Ugh...
https://wapo.st/3X7mfbc

Fun summer camp. Gave away a bunch of prizes, caught up with a friend, hugged @Blenster, met a proto-hacker, and maybe helped make the world a slightly better place