rho @rho@fosstodon.org

A local electronic music collective had to cancel a show back in March. So, they got a hold of all the artists, pieced together the show, and threw it on YT. For anyone interested in some chill electronic music this evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk2CDX7tZ30

Fun weather watching tonight. We've had over an inch of rain in the last hour, and its still coming down. Good bit of lightning and some hail. More on the way.
Gotta love May in TX.

After putting this off for over a year I finally wrapped up a post on my little Odroid XU4 CloudShell2 NAS. This may have worked out for the best, as I now have a full year of use to reflect on.
#libreops

https://electro.pizza/2020/05/selfhosting-cloudshell2/

So far pickle consumption has kept pace with cucumber production. Looks like that will soon change, hope the neighbors like cucumbers.

#gardening

Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with this project for work. Really looking forward to freeing up some brain cycles for more self hosted tweaking, electronics projects, and dare I say blog posts!

I presented a demo today for a large chunk of my development work that's nearing completion. It seemed to be received well enough, but reflecting on my communication and style I'm left disappointed. I used to give talks a lot more frequently, and relative to what I recall of that time I feel like I've atrophied considerably.

I'm still loving VimWiki! I'm using it mostly to document research and methods I'm working through for my job, and its already become a valuable reference for me.

More and more I'm thinking about working up a reasonable stylesheet for the generated html and an auto publishing mechanism to post it all to the greater web.

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

First cucumbers of the year coming off the vine today!

#gardening

Is it possible to stand up a mastodon or instance that doesn't federate at all?

To clarify, I'm sure its possible to hack something together that blocks activity pub, but I can't tell if its a built in option somewhere. Probably just need to dive in and try it.

Trying out circuit python on a little Adafruit device, and wow! I'm sure there is a bit of bloat involved, but this is a MUCH better experience compared to stumbling through the Arduino IDE.

It took two weekends, but got it together!

Just wrapped up installing a drip irrigation system in the garden. I've put that off for years thinking it was really complicated. Not sure how I got that in my head, but now having done it I realize there's not much to it.
#gardening

Diodes and resistors in place. Taking a break to uncross my eyes, and maybe go work in the veggie garden for a bit.

Woah, update to the next batch of Odroid-Go Advance. Sounds like there are still some delays, but to my surprise they made some improvements! Added L2 and R2 shoulder buttons, and now on board WiFi!
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=38629

A Delptronics LDB-1se drum machine kit arrived today. Shipped quickly and arrived in 1 day (though we're in the same city) and well packaged. Excited to get this thing together!

Finally listened to the last 'Future of Coding' podcast and was inspired to check out Orca. It seemed like the old PocketChip was a good candidate for an install. The build went fine, and seems to run great. Time to dive in.
#screenshotsunday

One of the projects I have been the primary on for years at work is having an underlying data source fundamentally change. This means I'm having to rework a lot of code, and revisit a lot of my past work. It's interesting how clear it is when I was under pressure or time constraints vs when I wasn't. Good coding practice started slipping and I got into a 'make it work' mode, and it's now those places that are giving me trouble. Where I was more rigorous, reintegration has been simple.

Spent the last two days on a deep dive in Drupal's caching system. Finally coming back up to the surface and feeling pretty good about things. I don't say that often while working with Drupal.

Today I thought about this little IC I've been holding on to for a while. It's a PT2399 echo audio processor. I think the time has come to give it a go.