Willa
@willawillnot.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ She/Her | Baltimore | 29 | Electrical engineer working on prosthetics 🦾
microcontrollers have always had the potential to democratize electronics, they make tasks that once required a formal education in circuits, into coding exercises appropriate for a complete novice.
embassy (rust project) makes this even easier, so much less bullshit than an embedded C++ toolchain.
embassy (rust project) makes this even easier, so much less bullshit than an embedded C++ toolchain.
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
microcontrollers have always had the potential to democratize electronics, they make tasks that once required a formal education in circuits, into coding exercises appropriate for a complete novice.
embassy (rust project) makes this even easier, so much less bullshit than an embedded C++ toolchain.
embassy (rust project) makes this even easier, so much less bullshit than an embedded C++ toolchain.
i would be so fucking down to teach practical electronics skills to the girls. it takes about 8 hours of instruction to be competent at soldering, 16 to be dangerous with microcontrollers, and maybe 30-40 for PCB design.
you can get people making shit, from scratch, in like 4 weekends.
you can get people making shit, from scratch, in like 4 weekends.
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
i would be so fucking down to teach practical electronics skills to the girls. it takes about 8 hours of instruction to be competent at soldering, 16 to be dangerous with microcontrollers, and maybe 30-40 for PCB design.
you can get people making shit, from scratch, in like 4 weekends.
you can get people making shit, from scratch, in like 4 weekends.
it does seem like the floor is going to fall out on "anyone who doesn't already have enough expertise and clout to be a consultant" if this goes on much longer, which is scary. if EE students asked me what to do nowadays i'd tell them "either be smart enough to do VLSI, or drop out and do a trade"
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
it does seem like the floor is going to fall out on "anyone who doesn't already have enough expertise and clout to be a consultant" if this goes on much longer, which is scary. if EE students asked me what to do nowadays i'd tell them "either be smart enough to do VLSI, or drop out and do a trade"
the fact that BLE doesn't have a standardized serial port protocol like all the previous bluetooth standards did is truly a pox, it's made it so tempting to just not bother porting all your bluetooth comms code to all your target platforms. fuck GATT all my homies hate GATT
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
the fact that BLE doesn't have a standardized serial port protocol like all the previous bluetooth standards did is truly a pox, it's made it so tempting to just not bother porting all your bluetooth comms code to all your target platforms. fuck GATT all my homies hate GATT
yeah absolutely, i've got a long tumblr post about this
www.tumblr.com/transhumanis...
we're failing kids of all ability levels, every kid needs both social contact with their entire cohort, and educational curriculum that meets their needs - both difficulty understanding, and boredom, are needs.
www.tumblr.com/transhumanis...
we're failing kids of all ability levels, every kid needs both social contact with their entire cohort, and educational curriculum that meets their needs - both difficulty understanding, and boredom, are needs.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
yeah absolutely, i've got a long tumblr post about this
www.tumblr.com/transhumanis...
we're failing kids of all ability levels, every kid needs both social contact with their entire cohort, and educational curriculum that meets their needs - both difficulty understanding, and boredom, are needs.
www.tumblr.com/transhumanis...
we're failing kids of all ability levels, every kid needs both social contact with their entire cohort, and educational curriculum that meets their needs - both difficulty understanding, and boredom, are needs.
also, like, teaching the overachievers to stop thinking about themselves for 5 seconds and remember that *all* their classmates exist should be part of the point of school.
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
also, like, teaching the overachievers to stop thinking about themselves for 5 seconds and remember that *all* their classmates exist should be part of the point of school.
yeah mainstreaming is so incredibly critical. there were mixed-track schools that had seclusion rooms, but they were only able to turn the whole building into an Immersive Prison Experience because they isolated us away from the mainstream kids.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
yeah mainstreaming is so incredibly critical. there were mixed-track schools that had seclusion rooms, but they were only able to turn the whole building into an Immersive Prison Experience because they isolated us away from the mainstream kids.
for every 1 fascist timecube guy there's 10,000 dudes that are just clear-cut assholes
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
for every 1 fascist timecube guy there's 10,000 dudes that are just clear-cut assholes
that's one of those things where like... i could try to parse out how much someone like that understands, whether there's any psychosis involved (the mind control is a red flag for that), etc, but like, it's easier to just go yell at a more prototypical fascist
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
that's one of those things where like... i could try to parse out how much someone like that understands, whether there's any psychosis involved (the mind control is a red flag for that), etc, but like, it's easier to just go yell at a more prototypical fascist
like, some of us are actually in community with people more disabled than ourselves. it's a really normal human experience to know an intellectually disabled person. they don't live on the moon.
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
like, some of us are actually in community with people more disabled than ourselves. it's a really normal human experience to know an intellectually disabled person. they don't live on the moon.
that's the part that drives me the most batty, the assumption that nobody would have regular interactions with any intellectually disabled people that would inform an opinion. she tried to lane me by listing out individual disabilities, but i never even discussed mine. i discussed *people* i knew.
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
that's the part that drives me the most batty, the assumption that nobody would have regular interactions with any intellectually disabled people that would inform an opinion. she tried to lane me by listing out individual disabilities, but i never even discussed mine. i discussed *people* i knew.
GOD we'd never pass an autism RFC. that thing's feedback thread would rival stephen king's bibliography in word count. i mean making decisions about our greatest cultural output as a people, the rust programming language, is already difficult enough
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
GOD we'd never pass an autism RFC. that thing's feedback thread would rival stephen king's bibliography in word count. i mean making decisions about our greatest cultural output as a people, the rust programming language, is already difficult enough
ngl i did intentionally avoid liking/replying to that post because i knew someone would jump on it. but, instead, why not just assume we're friends!
and like, sure, i'm flattered she thinks i have good taste in friends, but given that we've never even DMed i'm gonna say that's not an accurate label
and like, sure, i'm flattered she thinks i have good taste in friends, but given that we've never even DMed i'm gonna say that's not an accurate label
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ngl i did intentionally avoid liking/replying to that post because i knew someone would jump on it. but, instead, why not just assume we're friends!
and like, sure, i'm flattered she thinks i have good taste in friends, but given that we've never even DMed i'm gonna say that's not an accurate label
and like, sure, i'm flattered she thinks i have good taste in friends, but given that we've never even DMed i'm gonna say that's not an accurate label
kinda like this, except it was a quarter the size, and the walls and floor were bare concrete, and there was no drain in the floor so if you peed yourself (because you were 7) you just had to sit in the piss puddle.
actually pisses me off that i can never find pictures of ones as bad as my school's
actually pisses me off that i can never find pictures of ones as bad as my school's
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
kinda like this, except it was a quarter the size, and the walls and floor were bare concrete, and there was no drain in the floor so if you peed yourself (because you were 7) you just had to sit in the piss puddle.
actually pisses me off that i can never find pictures of ones as bad as my school's
actually pisses me off that i can never find pictures of ones as bad as my school's
yeah like. the reason i'm saying this stuff is because i grew up around people with significant autism, downs, etc and i remember how they were ideological sponges.
still great people. i'm only recently coming to terms with how much kindness i received from other kids in the same shitty school.
still great people. i'm only recently coming to terms with how much kindness i received from other kids in the same shitty school.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
yeah like. the reason i'm saying this stuff is because i grew up around people with significant autism, downs, etc and i remember how they were ideological sponges.
still great people. i'm only recently coming to terms with how much kindness i received from other kids in the same shitty school.
still great people. i'm only recently coming to terms with how much kindness i received from other kids in the same shitty school.
they really love to use the fact that the twitter crowd (now the bluesky crowd) is on about a 6 month delay of realizing what dogwhistles they're using on their forums to trick people into repeating them obliviously, it's one of their favorite passtimes. the frog, the ok symbol, etc
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
they really love to use the fact that the twitter crowd (now the bluesky crowd) is on about a 6 month delay of realizing what dogwhistles they're using on their forums to trick people into repeating them obliviously, it's one of their favorite passtimes. the frog, the ok symbol, etc
yeah, i'm not perfect, i laughed at first too. but i realized that amplifying that laughter would have splash damage. and if i failed to realize that and someone told me, i would have just said "ah shit my bad" and deleted it
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
yeah, i'm not perfect, i laughed at first too. but i realized that amplifying that laughter would have splash damage. and if i failed to realize that and someone told me, i would have just said "ah shit my bad" and deleted it
...yknow between me being a prosthetic engineer, and having been forced to attend Torture The Intellectually Disabled Elementary School, it feels like a two nickels situation that these discourses keep being targeted to piss me off specifically
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
...yknow between me being a prosthetic engineer, and having been forced to attend Torture The Intellectually Disabled Elementary School, it feels like a two nickels situation that these discourses keep being targeted to piss me off specifically
like, important context here is that the thread started with making fun of a man who chooses to express his emotional distress at the memory of 9/11 by appealing to his favorite Bionicle toys.
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
like, important context here is that the thread started with making fun of a man who chooses to express his emotional distress at the memory of 9/11 by appealing to his favorite Bionicle toys.
i was basically saying: picking on the most autistic-seeming fascists to make fun of, is liable to lead you down the road to making fun of people who do have a level of cognitive disability such that their *caregivers* are more culpable for their beliefs than themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
i was basically saying: picking on the most autistic-seeming fascists to make fun of, is liable to lead you down the road to making fun of people who do have a level of cognitive disability such that their *caregivers* are more culpable for their beliefs than themselves.
oh my god lmao you're posting from your porn account
nothing wrong with porn, but you're supposed to show up at other people's houses with your pants on, did you know that?
nothing wrong with porn, but you're supposed to show up at other people's houses with your pants on, did you know that?
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
oh my god lmao you're posting from your porn account
nothing wrong with porn, but you're supposed to show up at other people's houses with your pants on, did you know that?
nothing wrong with porn, but you're supposed to show up at other people's houses with your pants on, did you know that?
i literally didn't post for the last 60 minutes because i was in therapy lmfao
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
i literally didn't post for the last 60 minutes because i was in therapy lmfao
my inbox is open for apologies when you realize that you're crashing out over a low-conflict ask to change your language to better respect disabled people.
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
my inbox is open for apologies when you realize that you're crashing out over a low-conflict ask to change your language to better respect disabled people.