Weeknotes 198

CLVX 1 for Mac. Gesture Keyboard – A keyboard with a trackpad built into the keys. Not sure how well this would work in practice, but cool nonetheless.

How big is a kilobyte?

I saw a few people confidently declare that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes—everyone else is wrong. I also saw the opposite. This ignores a lot of human nuance!

I always thought we used 1000 when talking about networks, and 1024 when talking filesystems. Seems I was wrong too.

ChartDB is pretty swish!

And self-hostable too for those of you with beards.

TLD-LIST – Really useful site for comparing domain prices.

A friend invited me along to visit a local “hackspace” this week. They have all manner of equipment and gadgets there. I’m glad I went but it was a pretty overwhelming experience to be honest, and I felt like a bit of an imposter.

“What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?”

Siracusa’s take on Death, Love + Robots

They’re not all winners, but I treasure the ones that succeed on their own terms.

Agreed. I haven’t enjoyed all of these episodes, but the ones that are good are really good.

Will Jevon’s paradox save us from A.I.?

Hat tip to Under The Radar #316.

The hot air station was delivered and seems to work fine with a normal “kettle lead” as I’d hoped (it came with a European plug). I haven’t used it in anger yet as I’m waiting on some scrap motherboards from eBay to practice on before I unleash it on an unsuspecting Game Boy.

However, the fume extractor I ordered at the same time was not delivered even though it says it was. This is the first time I’ve had an issue with something not having been delivered from AliExpress but I guess it was inevitable eventually.

Converting A Postgres Interval To An Integer

Intervals are very convenient, especially when storing the “length of time” of a subscription, but subscriptions “timer” hasn’t started yet, and will start at a future date.

I finally got a third party IPS screen to power up on a Game Boy Pocket 🙌

What special steps did I follow to reach this milestone? None at all. I followed exactly the same steps as I did for all my other attempts: connected the ribbon cable and soldered a small wire from the power switch to the controller board. And this time it worked 🤷‍♂️

It seems clear that I have some duff Game Boy Colors.

This is a small step on a path to reduced self-loathing, and has bolstered my confidence a bit.