chrisparton1991

I decided to buy one when the smoke from the Sydney bushfires blanketed my town.

In my bedroom I could see and taste the smoke. The air purifier struggled, but it cleared the air around my computer quite well. I have dividing curtains in my room that I was able to close, which made it easier on the purifier.

All in all I think it was definitely worth the buy. FWIW I picked up a secondhand Kogan SmarterHome air purifier for AUD$60.

So devastating that such a brilliant mind and wonderful person is gone. I've used FastLED for a lot of projects, and it's always been a joy to work with. Daniel was always present in the community, friendly and patient.

When you look at the library code, it's amazing to see how much complexity has been abstracted away behind such a simple interface.

Gone too soon, he will be missed by many.

When I skimmed over the title, I thought it said "KKK has acquired Corel". That was going to be one of the more interesting reads for the day!

I previously used mine to drive my synchronised Christmas light display. It worked great one year, then for some reason the next year, retrieving the playback position of an audio file in Java was taking nearly a second (previously it was practically instant).

I never figured that out, so I bought a second-hand Mac Mini to power the display instead.

reCAPTCHA pushed me over to DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN, and a fair number of my Google searches are blocked by a reCAPTCHA with 5 or more challenges.

Now, I use DDG and fall back to Google search with !g if I can't find what I'm looking for.

You can get an Arduino Nano clone for considerably less than $5 on eBay. The cheapest price I can find a local Pi Zero for on eBay is $24 AUD (without an SD card).

I use Arduinos and similar boards to drive addressable LED strips. A lot of these strips require extremely precise timing, which is difficult or impossible to get from a Pi for some strips.

From another perspective, the limitations of the Arduino boards (e.g. RAM measured in kilobytes) force you to think harder about how you want to solve a problem, which can be quite an enjoyable challenge.

I rewrote my reducers with Immer as well. I had some pretty complex nested updates that became super simple with Immer, love it!

In a similar vein, Android has Log.wtf, which stands for "What a Terrible Failure".

Yep, source maps do the trick.

> Unlike JavaScript in the browser, or Java with a powerful IDE like IntelliJ, you can’t just set breakpoints everywhere

I'm using IntelliJ to set breakpoints everywhere in a Node application at this very moment. It's super easy to set up, you just create a Node.js run configuration and hit the debug button.

I prefer ESP32 boards myself. Super fast, cheap and they have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in.

There are some pitfalls, such as the ESP32 using 3.3V logic whereas most LED strips use 5V logic, but once you figure out how to use them they can be very powerful little beasts.

You don't have to tell me twice! I have a giant box full of the things.

This is a fun article, I enjoyed reading about the reverse engineering aspect.

These days you can easily buy 5 metres of dirt cheap addressable LED strip and control them with an Arduino and FastLED. You don't get same learning experience though!