Isaac 🦆

Something impossible until recently is now possible. Easily. How far are we gonna go this year?

@tutaprivacy.bsky.social It would be nice if the calendar supports the time zone to be selectable. Thanks!

Out today: Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero, 2nd edition - Raspberry Pi The updated edition of our starter-to-skilled guide shows you how to connect your Raspberry Pi with the real world.

I'm a big fan of Raspberry Pi. It is a complete Linux machine with easy access to external electronic components through GPIO pins, and yet it's small and reasonably priced. On top of that, it's got great books like this one!

If you are ever wishing to work in Japan, have an escape hatch from day 1.

Also, keep in mind that Japan is an extremely male-dominating country, regularly ranked below 100th in the Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum.

In Japan, there are countless cases where people get ill and are "advised" i.e. forced to stop working by the employer. Company doctors silently remove those "dropouts". Many J companies keep these facts top secret. This is the real dark side of modern Japan.

This is Literate Programming. Its importance deserves much more attention.

And Apple is busy marketing their absolutely fundamentally completely useless liquid glass.

The only thing I respect about Apple is the accessibility team. But the value of the a11y team's contribution has been significantly hampered almost to a complete void by the fact that Apple has been horribly closed about their very poor tech stack.

They are looking for someone who can volunteer to record piano play!

Glad I avoid Apple.

What is this leasehold thing in the UK? It is obviously a fraud in every single way, and yet it's been around like perfectly normal business.

AI is already very useful for finding ways of transportation from point A to point B. I think this particular application is where AI already outperforms humans by a huge margin.

The secrets of a great apology | Worklife with Adam Grant

I stumbled upon this very nice podcast by Adam Grant. This one was a fun and really insightful episode.

I think I know the answer but am not gonna spoil. Nice math puzzle!

Elon laughs and gets cheered when ordinary people suffer. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Looks quite nice!

I thought a lot about my recent experiences with an experimental feature that uses LLMs in @compiler-explorer.com and wrote a blog post (remember them!?)
xania.org/202505/ai-an...

If you can navigate team members when they should reinvent the wheel or prioritize other tasks, you may be a good engineering manager.

Bluesky now insists that users must have a Google account if they want to be “recognized as authentic”. This is a very disappointing move.

Mozilla's Pocket is shutting down on 8 July. I came to know Pocket pretty late about a year ago, installed the app, but never used it on a regular basis. Something was really off in Pocket and it never became my regular app. This announcement came as no surprise.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever iss...

Wow, Microsoft released the source code of Windows Subsystem for Linux with MIT licence in GitHub.

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who up there writing their blog?

i want to see yalls blogs!

criteria:

- you wrote at least a post in 2025
- it doesn't force a paywall so we can actually read it

YouTube video by Tick Talk w/ Eric Migicovsky How To Build A Smartwatch: Picking A Chip

Kicking off a new podcast/blog series walking you though how to build a smartwatch in 2025! First episode is on picking a chip, with an interview and dive into my box of ancient products

Video podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQ3...
Blog post: ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-...

A really interesting podcast discussion on the spectrum between local first and everything server.

Very interesting article about CJK font design. Liked it a lot 👍

Learn Accessibility  |  web.dev An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.

"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.

web.dev/learn/access...

A white text box, with a black version of Bluesky's butterfly logo. The words "Bluesky social link" are in bold black font.

You can now link to your Bluesky account from your Ko-fi page! 🦋

- Head to your profile settings
- Scroll down and click ‘Link to your social profiles’
- Add in your Bluesky handle
- Click ‘Save’.

Connect Bluesky 👉 ko-fi.com/settings

The nutrition label in the US is really not helpful for people's health.

Apple knows they are weak in software tech. Their mistake is that they decided to focus on myopic vendor lock-in rather than improving their software tech stack for long term sustaining success.
bsky.app/profile/gerg...