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Tribulations on an international scale, good food, and the occasional swearing to God in French.
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6 postsIn defence of the crisp sandwich
My grandmother would disown me. She would also be wrong, and I can prove it with texture.
Read the post →I taught a €4 microcontroller to water my plants
What started as a soil sensor and a pump turned into three weekends of arguing with myself about interrupts. The plants are alive. My assumptions about embedded Rust are not.
Read the post →The bug was the timezone. The bug is always the timezone.
A short field guide to the six ways a date can betray you, collected over one very long Tuesday and one increasingly confused customer.
Read the post →Reading Gödel, Escher, Bach for the third time, and finally getting the joke
I've owned this book for eleven years. Two of those attempts ended at page ninety. Here's what changed, and why the dialogues are the actual argument.
Read the post →My terminal setup is boring on purpose
Every year I rebuild my dotfiles and every year I delete more than I add. The current config fits on one screen and I can rebuild it from memory.
Read the post →Repairing a 1978 turntable with parts from three continents
The belt came from Poland, the stylus from Japan, and the patience from nowhere in particular. A slow story about tolerances.
Read the post →Short notes
Unedited, unfilteredSpent an hour convinced my oscilloscope was broken. It was the probe. It's always the probe.
TIL that git bisect run takes any script that exits non-zero. I have been doing this by hand for nine years.
Bought a label maker. Genuinely one of the top three purchases of the decade. The drawer of unmarked USB-C cables has been defeated.