Travis County decided my house is worth about 4x market value, so I get to spend several hours this morning waiting for them to show up for my "scheduled" protest hearing.

The neighbors' falling-down shack finally fell all the way down. The kids and I were doing crafts when we heard a loud crash outside. The building was about 10ft from our property line. Before pic is from last summer.

Back home in Austin, and our sage bush correctly predicted this morning's rain

Weekend project! Arduino based eprom programmer: https://github.com/walhi/arduino_eprom27_programmer

While playing with my kids at Jinjiang Action Park (锦江乐园) earlier this week, I had a sudden rush of memories from my first time there in 2002-03. At the time, I still carried a paper pocket dictionary everywhere, but my Chinese had gotten good enough that I was able to make friends with people who didn't speak English. A couple of my "local" friends, S and X, wanted to check out this huge new ferris wheel that had just opened up. We walked around the outer wall of the park until we found a some construction debris we could use to climb over, then just hopped the wall. I don't remember what the ferris wheel cost, but it seemed expensive at the time, so S talked an attendant into letting us ride for free. They say the wheel is going to be torn down later this year.

Bluetooth audio has been broken on my Ubuntu Macbook since the upgrade to 24.04, but I finally got around to seriously looking for a solution today. After quite a few useless stackoverflow comments, I found the answer. Turns out it was as simple as blacklisting the snd_soc_avs module: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pipewire/+bug/2063150

@w8emv@mastodon.radio Sounds interesting. Do you happen to have a link to the PDF?

If you've had ducks before you likely know better than I do, but I had better flow and fewer clogging issues with my garden fish pond drain when I switched to a dome-shaped bottom drain (think inverted salad bowl 1/2-inch above floor)

It's apparently a real word, but my brain independently invented the term eco-brutalist when I saw the 1000 Trees building looming over Suzhou Creek this afternoon

I feel fortunate to have had the chance to see a collection of Roman Verostko works in person at MUD Gallery in Shanghai. He was a great pioneer of generative and plotter art.

@ripper@chaos.social If you have a lot of PCBs to change, it's possible to use a regex in your language of choice to modify the file directly

@ripper@chaos.social select all, edit menu, edit text and graphics properties

I took a little walk around Fengjing Ancient Town (枫泾古镇) on the outskirts of Shanghai this morning

@tony@mastodon.radio @W1CDN@mastodon.radio Seconding this. I spent a lot of time tweaking controller settings in RetroArch to make my 8bitdo Pro controller usable for N64 games, and I'm still not really happy with it.

The park by the National Palace Museum is pretty nice

Sunny morning in Taipei

We're on our way to Shanghai (via Seattle and Taipei)

@paulrickards@mastodon.social I didn't have a modem for my VIC20 or C64 when I was a kid, but I happen to have one of those VICmodem cartridge near the top of my retro computing project pile. I was thinking about sticking an esp32 serial-wifi thing in the case.

@dylanbeaudette@mastodon.radio I use RG400 for no particular reason other than (I think) it looks fancy

There's been a lot of talk about enshittification lately, and this Baffler article is a really good look at the history of SaaS: https://thebaffler.com/latest/spreadsheet-assassins-king

The boys and I hiked down to the bottom of our hill this afternoon