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enjens.dk @enjens.dk · Jul 19

So, I have a lot of free time at the moment due to long term sickleave.

Any book recommendations?

I'm mostly into sci-fi/fantasy, loving books like LOTR, Discworld, Good Omens, American Gods, the hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, The Expanse and a bunch of others I've probably forgotten.

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow I doubt the right lessons will be learned from this 😅

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 7h

Is this good?

A tweet from @vx-underground from 2 hours ago

"Chat, we are cooked

Discord is being extorted by the people who compromised their Zendesk instance

They've got 1.5TB of age verification related photos. 2,185,151 photos

tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of e-mails"

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 8h

It's fine, we all blocked off that whole weekend anyway 😁

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 8h

A small correction on the Open Hardware Summit 2026.

OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 9h

IMPORTANT AND DEEPLY EMBARRASSING CORRECTION: MAY 23rd and 24th!!!!!!!!!!

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 20h

Yep, quite amusing:

www.adafruit.com/product/187

DIY shield for Arduino

Think you can do better? Design your own shield on the cheap with this DIY parts kit. You get a 3.2" x 2.5" (~ 8.1cm x 6.3cm) single-sided phenolic board with copper solder pads ...

www.adafruit.com

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 20h

Happy 20th anniversary to the wrong header spacing in the Uno form-factor, btw.

A forum post by Massimo Banzi from 2008:
"I made that mistake, when I made the first arduino board.

David Cuartielles took my first rectangular design , fixed a mistake (his first contribution) by applying the flying resistor you see.

(photo of a board that has the components of an Arduino but a different layout and shape, silkscreen says "Wiring Lite)

and turned it into this

(photo of an Uno-shaped bare board with the text "Arduino" on it)

when I put some finishing touches I managed to get the spacing wrong...

We had 5 minutes before the deadline to go into production, the PCB guy was on the phone saying "send it now or it goes to next week" and we didn't have a name yet... they I said let's call it Arduino like a bar we used to go...there wasn't much time to think.

Then I'm fond of the mistake... it makes it not perfect therefore more human... Yes...it could have been all perfectly optimised... but if engineers ran the world it would be an unbearable place where to live (smile emoticon)

Massimo"

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

Do I take these twice a week or once every two weeks?

A photo of an open pill bottle with capsule pills colored like the bisexual flag, blue-purple-pink.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

That's right, make a nice hop.

Altium File Viewer, showing the solder jumper. The left pad is the ADDR line, middle is 3.3V, and right is GND. Not quite what one would expect. But maybe that's just me.

A photo through a microscope of the solder pads with the left and middle connection cut and some enamel wire used to short the left and right pads. Naturally...

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

You see this and you want to change the I2C address, what do you do?

A closeup photo of a pcb, a solder jumper with three pads is visible next to a text saying "I2C 0x2B". The jumper has the middle and left pads connected via a trace. The right pad is connected to the GND plane and looking yummy.

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like most of what Arduino is showing is actually ML rather than gen-AI, but since AI is the free money cheat right now, they have to say call it "AI" every 30 seconds.
Wonder how many anti gen-AI folks this will discourage because of the lack of clarification.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 1d

The 2026 Open Hardware Summit is coming.... to Berlin, Germany! On May 22nd and 23rd!! Still so much news to come here but we wanted to be sure you knew! For now you can enjoy the beautiful logo designed by @[email protected] and check out the site at 2026.oshwa.org

(livestream heard it first🤭)

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

In ancient times I did interview at Arduino for an EE position, but they were using Eagle and I love @kicad.org too much 😁

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think all this Arduino news broke early because americans in Qualcomm couldn't figure out the european timezone when setting the embargo? 🤔

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, not quite form-factor, more like shield-compatible 🤔

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

Uno-form factor SBC? @diodes-delight.com did it first!

www.diodes-delight.com/products/piu...

Piunora

Piunora Buy now × List of distributors CrowdSupply (US/International) Mouser (US/International) Makerfabs (CN/International) Seeedstudio (CN/International) Piunora is a compact, easy-to-use developmen...

www.diodes-delight.com

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

Welp

www.qualcomm.com/news/release...

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

www.qualcomm.com

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Stargirl @thea.codes · 1d

I really don't think Qualcomm buying Arduino is a good thing.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini

www.notebookcheck.net/HMD-Touch-4G...

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Brendon @brendonbuilds.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out it's cheaper (and far more fun) for me to bulk order blank PCB from @jlcpcb.bsky.social than it is to purchase 1oz copper clad fr4. They arrived in about 5 business days!

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htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants @htmx.org · 1d

in addition to coining the terms hypertext & hypermedia, Ted Nelson also coined the term "clanker" *in context* over half a century ago and i am LOSING MY MIND

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My Card Is Better Than Your Card! @mycard.utustudios.com · 1d

My Card Is Better Than Your Card! is now out on Steam Early Access! The playground is open. Let's make some cool cards and wacky combos!🐸🌻⭐
#indiegame

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 2d

Logo by the amazing @bleeptrack.de !

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