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Dec 22, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Christmas present for our music-loving 18mo: his own Sonos music controller made out of a Raspberry Pi 400 and a wood case with handle and velcroed battery pack inside. Printing out 40 color icon stickers for the keys next. Little #golang program reading /dev/input key events.
Zip ties solve all problems. ImageImage
Cutting out these little stickers I'm printing from full sheet sticker paper and removing them from their sticky backing is the hardest part of this project so far. Image
Yeah, the stickers are really tedious. But coming along.

Also I had to deal with NumLock (with red dot sticker now, making it a target). If that's toggled, a bunch of key codes changes. So needed to handle either code for each key. Then he can toggle the numlock light for fun. ImageImage
Yeah, he loves it. I need to add some debounce/demash but otherwise works great! 🎉🎶🎁
Still loves it. They both do.

We've since added some songs that don't have stickers and it doesn't matter: even the 19mo knows where all the unmarked songs are. Image

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Sep 2, 2021
We've started getting nonsensical PRs to GitHub that are too bad but oddly somewhat valid to have been written by a human. They seem like they're Copilot-authored.

Somethines the author opens & then closes them.

One had mystery commit messing with GH Actions yml

Shady. Banned.
Witness yourself:

github.com/tailscale/tail…

I looked for malicious stuff in the referenced GH Action but seemed fine, but maybe git history was rewritten by the time I looked.

We never allowed CI to run on it.
In case author deletes them (which they can still do even when banned from an org), some screenshots for posterity...
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Apr 7, 2021
"Part of your Tools", an ode to curl...

🎶 Look at these flags
Don't they run deep?
Wouldn't you say my manpage's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the curl
The curl that speaks everything?
🎶 Look at this code
Software unsold
How many nerds did that Swede embold?
Paging my docs one might think
Sure, I speak everything
🎶 I've got gopher and HTTPs a plenty,
I've got *TPs and *MPs and more,
You want dead protocols?
I've got twenty!
But who cares?
No big deal
I add more!
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