Oscar

Man, every time I have a new show-stopper lucrative business idea I swear some fancy pants LLM shoots me down…

Me as soon as I type “deepseek” into my browser search bar

Average email from HR:
“Ok we’re transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—Catch up with your training on Qualulu then send me a knob on Chapati once you’re done. Do NOT upload your melon without YAMMER! approval”

Yes! I like to use that too. I haven’t brought myself to install it on the org codebase yet so this is a nice mini-implementation for the most useful feature (in my opinion)

I want to talk about filter(Boolean)

I think the whole “Elon Nazi salute” thing boils down to an Occam’s razor situation. What is more likely? You think he’s ACTUALLY a Nazi and wilfully did a nazi salute or he’s just a bit autistic and over-excited and mis-communicated a “throwing heart out” motion?

Been getting more into mini quad FPV flying recently. Here’s a little rip around from yesterday—with a crash

If you’ve ever dealt with Stripe webhooks before you may also encounter the headache of user subscription states being “CANCELED”… That was a fun one to debug!

Ended up going with event.includes(“CANCEL”) to cover all bases and protect my sanity 😄

The fact that Americans spell “cancelled” “canceled” still gets to me ngl

I ended up screenshotting and selecting the text with iOS!

Ah that’s interesting. I could see how that could be interpreted that way but have never run into this myself.

I don’t think I would really use this pattern without a variable assignment!

Garage key fob

Garage key-fob with Frankensteined lipo cell and charging circuit

Our key fob for the shared garage stopped working and I didn’t have a button-cell battery but I did have a lipo cell and a charging circuit… it’s at least USB-C rechargeable now!

Web serial is wicked. If I were doing this, I’d create a Serial2 communication from some pins of the ESP32 so you can still use the existing serial, strap that to the roomba and then host a custom web server on the ESP to receive HTTP api commands on the network.

My eBay search will be Roombas now…

Code screenshot example of an “Immediately invoked function expression” in Typescript/Javascript

Been enjoying IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expressions) a lot recently.

I feel like they nicely separate pools of logic relating to specific things (parsing, transforming, slicing) and reduces the need for variable reassignment

Throwback to about a year ago doing weather station maintenance on the Antarctic plateau. It’s a very strange place because it’s totally flat and there are basically no land features for hundreds of miles.

Kinda reminded me of the infinite white room from The Matrix.

I’ve started to begin my days with a 40-60min morning walk. Really makes a difference for my mental clarity and gives me an opportunity to get some sunlight while the days are shorter

Are you team Thing[] or team Array<Thing>?

Who on earth would come up with an idea like this is beyond me

Yeah, and resigning/woodworking practice…

Screenshot of a Figma error showing “only editors of this file can copy text”

wtf is figma doing now. I want to copy TEXT from a TEXT BOX Jesus CHRIST man

I like that personally, but when all the org’s APIs are stored in Postman, I don’t want to be the one to migrate them to something else. I can deal with the extra tea break!

“Pablo Escobar waiting” meme from Narcos TV series

Waiting for Postman to open

Man, YouTube is just amazing

Long-form > Short-form content

I swear the Shopify API team are on a mission to keep us devs in employment — they've been very trigger-happy with these depreciations recently

Yeah it’s definitely worth it! I got this one from Aliexpress. I would probably recommend going for Rasperry Pi though if you don’t need this tiny form-factor imo. Much better developer support and community for it online!

Screenshot of a live object-detection process, showing security camera view of people and cars in a car park with bounding boxes drawn around various items which the machine-learning model has identified

Running a RK3566-optimised YOLO model, I have been able to get a consistent 7fps. I have some plans for further performance optimisations but this is a really great starting point!

With the same form-factor as a Raspberry Pi Zero, this thing has a quad-core 1.6GHz processor, 4GB RAM and an on-board NPU (Neural Processing Unit) specialised for deep learning applications

A hand, holding a credit-card sized Linux computer

Over the past week, I have been testing this Radxa Zero 3W single board computer and it’s been great fun

I’m usually pretty nonchalant about the incredible technology I rely on every day, but when I get a phone call in a cosy café—from an Iridium phone deep in the field on the Antarctic plateau—it always stops me in my tracks. This is so bloody cool

👀 ()=>