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I broke my own rule of "always buy multiple" when ordering this itsy bitsy tiny stepper motor and well... I think I fried it 🤦‍♂️​

*sigh* new order placed. project delayed again.

This! Watch this to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Thank you @TechConnectify for speaking up!

So SlackBot interrupts me in my work to "wrap up my week". A bit weird on a Thursday morning, but yeah I feel you botty - I'm ready for the weekend, too.

So what does it have to say? Nothing. But it wants me to click a button labelled "What did I accomplish this week?". Fine, you want me to tickle you, I tickle you.

The result: "Slack AI doesn’t have a good answer for that right now".

Uhmm ohhh-kayyy. Thanks for the first WTF of the day. I really should not talk to bots before my first coffee.

I am constantly underwhelmed by github copilot. The integration of a coding agent directly into github seems like the natural choice. but things I would want, simply don't work.
recent example: I got a pr that is mostly good to go. I have some minor nitpicks I added comments on after reviewing the pr from my phone. I now would like the agent to fix those tiny things, add a commit and open a new pr. should be simple and I could merge this from my phone with a click of a button. but "copilot is not available for cross repo pull requests" wtf?
so glad I am not paying for this - it's not convincing at all.

Is there a buck converter board that outputs multiple voltages at the same time? At least 5V and 3.3V? Seems silly to need two boards when I need both voltages.

#electronics #rtwelcome

Huh. TIL that go has no os.copy() or something. You really have to open file handles and shuffle bytes around!? How odd.

Edit: nevermind - I don't know how to look.

#golang

Here's another #pictionary This time's easy.

I think I need to start an inventory system for my electronics components. I ordered a motor driver yesterday. I found two in my electronics box today 🫣

apparently my GTX-1060 is now a legacy model and no longer well supported 😲​ had to install some AUR package to get my system running again at all.

Is it a stupid time to buy a new GPU? Will it ever not be a stupid time?

I guess my i5-6600K CPU isn't the freshest either? Is it a stupid time to buy a whole new system? Will it ever not be a stupid time?

arschglatt heute. da wo die leute überhaupt noch nicht geräumt haben diesen Winter geht's noch, der Schnee bietet einigen grip.
am schlimmsten ist es bei leuten mit winterdienst. Da wird mit der Maschine einmal über's eis poliert und drei Kiesel als "streu" drauf drapiert

huh. You used to be able to select "listen to this page" in Google Chrome on Android and it would use text to speech to read the page to. Now the option is still there, but it generates an AI podcast like thing based on the article??? That's not what I asked for!

there's some media that leaves an everlasting impression on your brain. may it be an idea or a feeling from that media that will pop up again and again in your thoughts over the years.

bojack horseman is one of those for me. I don't think anyone I know gave that silly cartoon a second look. but that shit went much deeper than any animated series with anthropomorphized animals has any right to.

🤷‍♂️ dunno what I'm trying to say here. but i c u, bojack.

I bought The Doors of Trithius today and uhm... I already played for 5.4 hours straight?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519490/The_Doors_of_Trithius/

#gaming #steam

Second new software release this year. I don't think I can keep up that pace ;-)

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/09-gmail_backup_notmuch_gui

#gmail #backup #notmuch #search #blogpost #opensource #php

Am I being stupid or does HTMX not support this very simple use case?

on form submit:
1) clear the target area
2) show a loading indicator
3) trigger an ajax call
4) wait for the ajax call to return
5) hide the loading indicator
6) fill the target area

Ideally I would want the loading indicator IN the target area, but that would make it usable only once. Stupid, but I can live with it...

But what seems not to work is 1). It will show my indicator but not clear the target area.

It seems I have to write additional JS to get that behavior. Well then I can write the thing myself. So much for the promise of not having to write JavaScript for simple things.

#htmx #javascript

Ich finde, ich hab genug gearbeitet für dieses Jahr...

Felt shit today, but used the down time to make something: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/02-password_hasher_pwa

#passwordhasher #blogpost #pwa #javascript

happy new year 🎉

Hey, electronic geeks. I need your help.

We have a lamp in our living room containing a bunch of white LED strips. We really like the lamp, unfortunately the remote to control the brightness and color temperature broke.

I am now thinking about "simply" replacing the LED driver with a new one that can be controlled via WiFi (ideally via Home Assistant).

However I am having a hard time to find a driver with exactly the specs of the original. I think it's probably because I don't 100% understand how these specs work.

Can you:

* point out drivers wich should be able to replace this one?
* explain if and what wiggle room I would have when selecting a driver?

#electronics #led #homeassistant #fedihelp #rtwelcome