Fritz @daremo@fosstodon.org

I think we are feature- and bug-complete for the first part of the #vtracker UI, which is the pattern editor. I'll get this ready for release and push master.

This makes vtracker a bit more usable, but it still needs an instrument editor and track editor before it has a complete user interface.

New post on the motivation behind my vale8x64 #homebrewcomputer project, and an overview of its technical details: http://www.mahnke.tech/blog/2019-04-09-introducing-the-vale8x64-computer.html

Hello, Fediverse!

After the first week, I decided the structure around the OCW courses is distracting and offers no benefit over a textbook for my purposes. So I abandoned the idea of following an internet course and am learning by working through my textbooks directly.

After the second week, I understood I need more frequent reinforcement of material, so I've built in a half day of review on 1 day of the week and 1 hour of review on the other days. I'll refine this over the next few
weeks.

Now entering my 4th week of math self-study using a rigorous Calculus textbook and a Linear Algebra textbook.

I've made a lot of changes to my learning process over the first three weeks, but I think I've arrived at something that's working pretty well and will only need minor changes.

Entering my second week of taking 3 MIT OCW math courses: Calculus with Theory, Differential Equations,
and Linear Algebra. I'm aiming to finish them in the time typical semester (3-3.5 months).

I haven't looked at calculus much since I took it in university 15 years ago. This is my first time taking diff eq and linear algebra courses, so I'm challenged.

Installed my first pre-hung exterior door to my satisfaction after several partial days of fiddling around. I don't claim to be a fast learner in this area.

But now I feel like I can do a pretty good door installation in my house.

Looking forward to trying framing a doorway and hanging a door in a custom frame at some point.

I've been directed to set gnome "scale-to-fit" for pantheon calendar, and it looks much better now.

Looking for a calendar app to run on PinePhone. So far I've tried gnome-calendar, pantheon-calendar, and evolution, and none look like they're optimized for the mobile display.

Just working a little more on my PinePhone running Arch. VLC is good for playing music, and things are working fine with my bluetooth earbuds.

Trouble with the home internet connection lately. I think I've isolated the problem down to my matrix homeserver periodically making thousands of DNS lookups since I recently join a couple rooms with 1000+ members. Then I start seeing routing issues and packet loss.

I currently have a budget NIC in my pfSense host and see it drop a lot of packets when this happens. I just put a local unbound DNS caching server on the matrix host to see if this will help.

Working for the first time seriously on my new PinePhone. It only took me about 15 minutes to get stock KDE into an unbootable state. I flashed Arch today. I just got an SSH connection, so the real fun begins.

Giving bspwm a shot after using i3 for several years (and dabbling a bit with dwm). I can tell I'm going to like this.

After more than a year of deliberation, I finally ordered my PinePhone yesterday. Estimated dispatch mid-January. With BSD grabbing a strong foothold in my home lab over the past few years, I'm looking forward to seeing what BSD OSes I can use on it.

Homemade stir plate made from magnets and a small computer fan. Made a few years ago for making yeast starters for brewing beer.