Mark McGookin @markmcgookin@qoto.org
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Software, IOT, Cloud, weight lifting and too much wine.
Joined Nov 2022
@cvennevik yup I have this issue too. It's like there's a void in my brain where new ideas are supposed to be. I am great at problem solving and building solutions, but I am terrible at thinking of new ideas. Ideally I’d love a little side project that has users and pays for itself somehow, but every time I get started I just realise that someone's already done it better, or its a dumb idea. I'd also like to do something in a new tech stack to get some new skills.
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I wouldn't mind getting some attention. #GetFediHired
* Former software engineer having primarily focused on graphics; I wrote major parts of the original Kindle render stack, the image scaler used on amazon.com, and a lot of graphics code for games and consumer electronics middleware you've likely used
* Good at solving systems design and algorithm problems
* I think I'm pretty okay as a musician too and that's where I want to focus my attention these days
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Monday - Ian
Tuesday - Greg
Wednesday - Ian
Thursday - Greg
Friday - Ian
Saturday - Greg
Sunday - Ian
The Gregorian Calendar
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So, I've decided to drop this giant non-enshittified Python course out there for your ongoing amusement. https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery.
It's the same course I took on a decade-long world tour of corporate training. Some people who took it went on to do dumb things like land rovers on other planets and stuff. Anyways, enjoy!
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Save the recipes you like that you found online because in a matter of months or weeks they will be drowned out by chat gpt generated recipes that looks plausible but don't work, and have taken up the first 20 pages of search results.
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Discoveries are everywhere. I was at a beach with friends on the weekend, and rolled a log (as I do), found and photographed a beetle (as I do), and uploaded to #iNaturalist (as I do).
It's the second #iNaturalistNZ observation of its species, and 7th globally.
This is how knowledge about nature gets built: people sharing interesting things they find. In the old days it was employed/wealthy collectors. Now it can be everyone with a smart phone.
New Blog Post - "Using the WaveShare Pico ResTouch LCD 2.8 Screen with CircuitPython" - https://markmcgookin.com/2023/01/11/using-the-waveshare-pico-restouch-lcd-2-8-screen-with-circuitpython/
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The Inigo Montoya method of greeting people.
Step 1: Polite greeting.
Step 2: Your name.
Step 3: Relevant personal link.
Step 4: Manage Expectations.
@akamatchstic @calebkraft @makemagazine I found this tutorial SUPER helpful for getting to grips with the basics of Fusion. https://youtu.be/A5bc9c3S12g
@Rjdlandscapes this looks like it is a still from a Guardians of the Galaxy movie
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Orion's Belt is a huge waist of space. ..
I know, I know, a terrible joke... only 3 stars.
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Finally released: The GB Interceptor.
An open source rp2040-based adapter that goes between your (unmodified) Game Boy and the game cartridge to record or stream your gameplay via USB.
Video: https://youtu.be/6mOJtrFnawk
Details: https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge
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It's that cold outside, I just saw a #Tory MP with his hands in his own pockets.
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I drew up some conductive pad footprints for kicad for anyone to use
It does dim/brighten the LED based on the number of contributions but its quite hard to see. Might add a setting to allow you to flip colours. Also... if its not clear from the code... I am NOT a python dev... there's obviously a lot better ways to do this.
Bit of fun this evening inspired by @kevsmac Galactic Unicorn fun. Display the last 17 weeks (due to lack of pixels) of your github contribution graph on the @pimoroni unicorn-hat-mini. Polls the github API once every hour for an update. Source here: https://github.com/markmcgookin/unicorn-hat-mini-github-contributions
@deshipu you would hope that Infineon or whoever makes it would help get it sorted. Is it working in C++ or MicroPython? I assume other devices can use it so fingers crossed it won’t take too long (says the guy with ZERO experience writing drivers or firmware for this sort of stuff)
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Software, IOT, Cloud, weight lifting and too much wine.
Joined Nov 2022
