Mark McGookin @markmcgookin@qoto.org

Tonight’s #Horror movie of choice is #Barbarian … let’s see how we get on. Get the horrors done while Mrs McG is away!

Currently waiting for this simple little PCB from PCBWay... doesn't do much but gives me a connector for the waveshare 1.47" SPI display, a Neopixel (if I wired those right) and some breakouts to wokr on another iteration. Initial plan is to see if it works, then write a bit of code to cross post my tweets here and show them on the screen as it does so. Also learning #Fusion360 as a new modeling tool for a case.

I realise I haven't actually done an #introduction here, & that seems to be the thing to do. I'm Mark, I live in the Northern Ireland, I've been a professional .Net developer for around 15 years now, I used to play a lot of rugby, now I occasionally lift weights & run. I love learning new things & playing with #RaspberryPi #Picos & other small electronics, I’m a serial hobbiest & the king of 66% complete abandoned projects. markmcgookin.com for a bit more stuff, but nothing too ground breaking.

@OpinionatedGeek yea been there myself with a few things. The most recent was a payment provider who’s SDK wasn’t threadsafe and I just grabbed a really old version that was floating around as source and wrote my own. Literally worked better than theirs

@OpinionatedGeek OAuth is frequently made to be so much more complex than it needs to be. It’s just like a person coming to your door

1) who are you?
2) prove it.
3) fine what do you want?

I can’t seem to add a post with text and an image from the iOS app tonight. Anyone else seeing this?

Enjoying #SmileMovie tonight. Good original #Horror

Hey @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social do you have any idea when you will be open for registrations for your server instance again?

New blog post: Using the Adafruit 1.47″ Curved SPI Display with a Raspberry Pi Pico and CircuitPython https://markmcgookin.com/2022/11/17/using-the-adafruit-1-47-curved-spi-display-with-a-raspberry-pi-pico-and-circuitpython/

@matvelloso im pretty similar myself man, took me a few times to get signed up/logged into a server, I imagine a few are struggling under the sudden influx/load though

Just setting up my twttr