Jonathan
@rondalesc.bsky.social
Software engineer, currently working for LinkedIn. Interested in basketball, D&D, technical craft and associated work, and a whole host of other topics. Pleased to meet ya.
Wow this game 7... crazy
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Wow this game 7... crazy
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Because of the Trump shutdown, 143,000 Rhode Islanders could lose access to food assistance starting on November 1. Don't let political dysfunction in Washington hurt our community.
Help RI Food Bank keep our neighbors fed.
💰 rifoodbank.org/donate
🤝 rifoodbank.org/shutdown
Help RI Food Bank keep our neighbors fed.
💰 rifoodbank.org/donate
🤝 rifoodbank.org/shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Because of the Trump shutdown, 143,000 Rhode Islanders could lose access to food assistance starting on November 1. Don't let political dysfunction in Washington hurt our community.
Help RI Food Bank keep our neighbors fed.
💰 rifoodbank.org/donate
🤝 rifoodbank.org/shutdown
Help RI Food Bank keep our neighbors fed.
💰 rifoodbank.org/donate
🤝 rifoodbank.org/shutdown
Double OT in first game of the season. Lovin' it. 🏀
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Double OT in first game of the season. Lovin' it. 🏀
Did a Parks on the Air (POTA) activation in PVD yesterday with my brother on 20 meters. I think 31 stations activated. Got a few in Canada, fun stuff. Fun hammin' 📻📡
September 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Did a Parks on the Air (POTA) activation in PVD yesterday with my brother on 20 meters. I think 31 stations activated. Got a few in Canada, fun stuff. Fun hammin' 📻📡
Starting through a watchlist of TNG. I know I watched this when i was a kid, but man does it hit the spot right now. ✨
a computer generated image of a space ship with the word wos on the bottom right
ALT: a computer generated image of a space ship with the word wos on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Starting through a watchlist of TNG. I know I watched this when i was a kid, but man does it hit the spot right now. ✨
Made my first contact on a SkyNet repeater network for their weekly meetup, run by the Narragansett Bay Amateur Radio Club. Was pretty fun, just a bunch of nerds on the radio. Good stuff, had a few others from pretty far out.
📻 📡
nb1ri.net
📻 📡
nb1ri.net
nb1ri.net
August 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Made my first contact on a SkyNet repeater network for their weekly meetup, run by the Narragansett Bay Amateur Radio Club. Was pretty fun, just a bunch of nerds on the radio. Good stuff, had a few others from pretty far out.
📻 📡
nb1ri.net
📻 📡
nb1ri.net
Finally programmed my HT with the local repeaters in my area. Startin' to figure this stuff out. Next step is tryin' to make some contacts with local Hams in the area. #hamradio
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🐖📻
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finally programmed my HT with the local repeaters in my area. Startin' to figure this stuff out. Next step is tryin' to make some contacts with local Hams in the area. #hamradio
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I've been bummed about this very thing. Especially from established and trusted sources.
I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out
the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections
August 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I've been bummed about this very thing. Especially from established and trusted sources.
Technician's License in the bag. Was graded by the delightful radio group WM7X. Will get my callsign sometime next week, hopefully before my first HT arrives. 📡📻
hamstudy.org/sessions/WM7X/
hamstudy.org/sessions/WM7X/
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Technician's License in the bag. Was graded by the delightful radio group WM7X. Will get my callsign sometime next week, hopefully before my first HT arrives. 📡📻
hamstudy.org/sessions/WM7X/
hamstudy.org/sessions/WM7X/
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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How was your week?
August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
How was your week?
6502 project has me inspired, next bit to learn is radio. Studying now (over the next few weeks) for the Technician's HAM license - then maybe some RC electronics. 🤓 📻
July 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
6502 project has me inspired, next bit to learn is radio. Studying now (over the next few weeks) for the Technician's HAM license - then maybe some RC electronics. 🤓 📻
Now tryin' to read through Apple 1 Manual to get a feel for it hehe. Fun project!
#6502
#6502
July 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Now tryin' to read through Apple 1 Manual to get a feel for it hehe. Fun project!
#6502
#6502
Got Wozmon up and running! 🍎 - with an assist from the beneater subreddit, where they found an issue with the schematic on the Max232 chip! Exciting. Going to experiment here for a bit then onto Basic!
July 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Got Wozmon up and running! 🍎 - with an assist from the beneater subreddit, where they found an issue with the schematic on the Max232 chip! Exciting. Going to experiment here for a bit then onto Basic!
Find it interesting that the Twitch web UI player bucks the norm in that you can resume by clicking anywhere on the screen (when in fullscreen or theatre mode), but in order to pause or re-pause you must find the small icon at the bottom of the player. 🤔 I mean, space/k for play/pause on KB at least
July 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Find it interesting that the Twitch web UI player bucks the norm in that you can resume by clicking anywhere on the screen (when in fullscreen or theatre mode), but in order to pause or re-pause you must find the small icon at the bottom of the player. 🤔 I mean, space/k for play/pause on KB at least
ACIA mostly hooked up. Still need to do the control lines so I can actually address the new chip, but gonna have to wait til next time.
#6502
#6502
July 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
ACIA mostly hooked up. Still need to do the control lines so I can actually address the new chip, but gonna have to wait til next time.
#6502
#6502
Gonna start the #6502 UART module for a proper RS232 interface (so I can hook up Wozmon / Basic) this weekend.
Until then I'm starting to read some brain candy my brother recommended...the scholomance series for Naomi Novik (just a fun relaxing read hopefully):
Until then I'm starting to read some brain candy my brother recommended...the scholomance series for Naomi Novik (just a fun relaxing read hopefully):
July 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Gonna start the #6502 UART module for a proper RS232 interface (so I can hook up Wozmon / Basic) this weekend.
Until then I'm starting to read some brain candy my brother recommended...the scholomance series for Naomi Novik (just a fun relaxing read hopefully):
Until then I'm starting to read some brain candy my brother recommended...the scholomance series for Naomi Novik (just a fun relaxing read hopefully):
Hello world (sort of) on the 6502!
#6502
#6502
July 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hello world (sort of) on the 6502!
#6502
#6502
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After months of fragmented effort, I finally published the prototype omni-REPL for web frameworks and things that render DOM.
I'm very excited (and relieved) to have achieved this milestone.
I had to completely re-architect how this REPL worked 🙈
I'm very excited (and relieved) to have achieved this milestone.
I had to completely re-architect how this REPL worked 🙈
July 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After months of fragmented effort, I finally published the prototype omni-REPL for web frameworks and things that render DOM.
I'm very excited (and relieved) to have achieved this milestone.
I had to completely re-architect how this REPL worked 🙈
I'm very excited (and relieved) to have achieved this milestone.
I had to completely re-architect how this REPL worked 🙈
Got ROM and VIA hooked up to the 6502! Wrote a simple program that toggles the VIA portB between AA and 55 hex (lights are the binary representation). Relieved was able to get here, troubleshooting the random error I was seeing was truly daunting heh. Grateful to y'all for the suggestions!
#6502
#6502
July 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Got ROM and VIA hooked up to the 6502! Wrote a simple program that toggles the VIA portB between AA and 55 hex (lights are the binary representation). Relieved was able to get here, troubleshooting the random error I was seeing was truly daunting heh. Grateful to y'all for the suggestions!
#6502
#6502
Resolved the issue with my 6502! It was an LED in the clock module missing a resistor. Found via reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/beneater/c...
The blue LED should've had a voltage controlled output through gate, and it does indeed not burn the LED, but threw random garbage to instructions.
#6502
The blue LED should've had a voltage controlled output through gate, and it does indeed not burn the LED, but threw random garbage to instructions.
#6502
From the beneater community on Reddit: 6502 jumping to random addresses and repeating instructions (see comments)
Explore this post and more from the beneater community
www.reddit.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Resolved the issue with my 6502! It was an LED in the clock module missing a resistor. Found via reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/beneater/c...
The blue LED should've had a voltage controlled output through gate, and it does indeed not burn the LED, but threw random garbage to instructions.
#6502
The blue LED should've had a voltage controlled output through gate, and it does indeed not burn the LED, but threw random garbage to instructions.
#6502
Ran into an issue with what I think is a mis-seated CPU on the 6502 breadboard project. Had to undo all the ROM lines (address/data). Still diagnosing. If nothing else I'm learning a lot about how to troubleshoot, but dang, hehe, rough stuff lol
July 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ran into an issue with what I think is a mis-seated CPU on the 6502 breadboard project. Had to undo all the ROM lines (address/data). Still diagnosing. If nothing else I'm learning a lot about how to troubleshoot, but dang, hehe, rough stuff lol
Got the ROM installed. Can now actually program the Microprocessor! More to follow.
#6502
#6502
June 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Got the ROM installed. Can now actually program the Microprocessor! More to follow.
#6502
#6502