ja27
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Comment · 2 months ago
Keychron K3 Pro, red switches, RGB, stock keycaps. I find low-profile more comfortable for my hands but has enough key travel it feels right. It's close enough to the MacBook layout that it isn't too hard to switch back and forth when I'm out with the laptop.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've seen maybe five big Meetup groups here that were pretty active pre-COVID get abandoned and looking for a new organizer. It's sad.
We had a big thriving Microsoft focused community here with multiple Meetup groups and multiple events every month but that died down as they laid off developer evangelists and then closed the local Microsoft office about 2 years ago.
There is a big, broad tech Meetup group here that's kind of thriving but their biggest draw events are "anything mentioning AI" meh. It's hard for them to find places to meet that can accommodate 50-100 visitors.
Comment · 7 months ago
We did a "restart party" at our hackerspace a few years ago. Definitely could have used a good stock of capacitors. Probably power cords. Not sure what to do with all the very specific USB-C etc. ports that break.
Comment · 9 months ago
I remember talking about waiting for it to be ready in 1991.
Comment · 9 months ago
Interesting. It's always been odd to me that FLL was all autonomous and no driver control then FTC and FRC focus heavily on driver controlled periods.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
I was just thinking today how I miss my DSL (Damn Small Linux) setup. A Pentium 2 Dell laptop, booted from mini-CD, usb drive for persistence. It ran a decent "dumb" terminal, X3270, and stripped down browser (dillo I believe). Was fine for a good chunk of my work day.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Article is from 2020.
They're all but out of the launch business now but claim to be continuing research on it. There are a lot of skeptics that it would ever work (at actual orbital velocity).
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/spinlaunch-yes-the-cen...
Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly. There are thousands of other venues to share political news. Go there.
Comment · 1 year ago
Addressable LEDs (strips, rings, panels) are really cool to play with too.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah I fried a RAVPower USB-C PD supply with one of those.
Comment · 1 year ago
My wife taught as a fine arts adjunct off and on at a large state university. Between gas, parking, and (relatively cheap) childcare we lost money every semester she taught.
Comment · 1 year ago
One of my favorites.
Also the one where Wally insists his towel gets cleaner every time he uses it: https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html
There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally asks Dilbert if he has any extra napkins and Dilbert says he won't know until he's done eating.
Comment · 1 year ago
and the discussion from five days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687966
Now I run Thinkamingo where we build fun educational mobile apps.
I'm helping build BioscanR where we're applying modern sensor technology and analysis in the healthcare space.
I help run Tampa Hackerspace where I mostly get to watch other people build neat stuff while I focus on building the hackerspace. But I get to dabble in electronics, microcontrollers, art, 3D printing, etc. when I can.
I coach FIRST robotics, teaching high school kids to build and program competitive robots.