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he/him/they/them - Tech at Gadgetoid.com, (Micro)Python wrangler at @Pimoroni.com, documenter of Pi’s at pinout.xyz and pico.pinout.xyz, perpetually exhausted parent, possibly some kind of artist, dabble in music… Oh and a ~50% deaf, ADHD mess.

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 14h

Can confirm- wasted entirely too much time trying to solve for this in Python by basically transcribing the datasets into a sort of DSL. IIRC Google also had some kind of device description language in the works at the time too.

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

If there were a world where I ever needed to spend money on *another* keyboard I think I’d have ordered the black 60% already 🤣

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

NuPhy's Halo75 V2 "IO Edition" is coming, and I bloody love it - gadgetoid.com/2025/10/10/n...

TODO: Record some tappety tap sounds when my Zoom h5studio arrives.

NuPhy Halo75 V2 IO Edition Reviewed

Finally NuPhy have succumb to my tirade of increasingly bizarre emails and sent me a keyboard. Truly this is a wonderful moment. No, that’s not thinly-veiled British sarcasm, but rather very measured…

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Shawn Hymel @shawnhymel.bsky.social · 1d

If you are headed to @hackaday-feed.bsky.social #Supercon later this month and you've been curious about #Rust, check out my workshop! There are still seats available. You'll get a #RaspberryPiPico kit to take home and continue your embedded Rust journey 🦀
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hackaday.io/superconfere...

#embedded

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

(Joke's on me, my grass is fake...)

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

I'll pack my bags. When does the snow start?

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

not noise, damnit, silence, hahahaha

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

Love me a good shrooom biryani, excuse to use all the types at once 🤣

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

(paraphrased) "Users don't know they can move clips and just select some space and hit delete, or add noise"

I FEEL ATTACKED

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3...

How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future

YouTube video by Tantacrul

www.youtube.com

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 1d

ya'll have weird ass grass

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 2d

hup!

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 3d

Underrated thread.

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · Apr 7

It’s totally alien to me but I just stumbled my way through using the shapely Python library to resolve some serious geometry bugs produced when decomposing curves in font glyphs into something PicoVector compatible…

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 4d

@konichiwakitty.bsky.social 😱👋

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 4d

Electric cars, despite a healthy? pre-owned market, still feel like the kind of luxury good where it makes good business sense to milk us poor fuckers for every penny we're worth.

I've found *one* decent speed charger at ~50p 😭

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 4d

My spam is so completely filled with OEM/ODM emails, crapto drops and blogspam requests that I'm not sure I'd ever find anything legitimate.

But I haven't noticed an uptick, nor more than the odd false positive on the very rare occasion, found by pure luck.

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 4d

All my experience with CTR is from building reports for an affiliate marketing co back in the dark ages. And most of that I have forgotten 🤣

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 4d

Well over half a million SERP impressions on Pinout sounds like a big number - but only 16k clicks!? Click moar 🤣 it makes me nothing but I can feast on the numbers.

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 5d

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 5d

Not bizarre at all- nobody wants to train compression artefacts into music stealing robots 💀

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 6d

Goose
Loose
Aboot this house.

A goose throwing an old man down the stairs.

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 6d

I gift you these fresh vintage memes, use them well

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 6d

Someone in an absurdly shite humpty dumpy costume lying on the floor with a broken top shell I guess

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 6d

A crude cartoon of a child in a frilled maroon blazer and khaki trousers fishing with a stick and holding up a finger.

Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 6d

A crude 70s cartoon of a goose hauling an old man down some stairs

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 6d

It’s absurd how often it works 🤦