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@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt I wrote an important task down yesterday and actually noticed and did it today!

@ghost_bird @sieri@weirder.earth or only the most obnoxious and rich (pleonasm) will continue 😬

re: personal development, in software development 

sometimes I think the GoToSocial interface is still quite clunky but I had to use online banking today and with that comparison i'm doing just incredible lmao

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personal development, in software development 

These last few months I've gotten quite a bit more comfortable using Profilers (FireFox' overall, and React devtools), and code internals like custom React hooks and Redux-related stuff.

And user interface design stuff overall :)

The asymmetry between developers using powerful new machines and not noticing performance is terrible for the average user is often mentioned, but I've noticed something else with React:

A React bundle in development, especially with StrictMode, has *way* worse performance, because it's doing a lot of extra things to make the development experience nicer, stuff like rendering *every change* twice, to check for consistency in pure components.

This makes it a lot easier to notice (and debug) performance issues that might not even be noticeable in production builds, or only on way lower specced hardware

fuckin hyped to do some pcb design again, it's been ages

escape room concept: there is a soft bed with even softer plushies, and you have to get out of bed, and you have 1 hour to do it

re: Meta, defed, etc 

@aurynn i mean, we've defederated from them years ago

@zalasur they use the public hashtag api (from botsin.space, afaik), so blocking the server/account doesn't do anything to protect from this scraper...

it is with great pain I do this work task for 5 minutes instead of continuing this day-long hyperfocus on Shiny New Project

Implementing the 9 Circles of Hell as USB Type-C Alt Modes

that person standing in the corner at a party meme but it's me on the train and they don't know I'm reading the USB-C specs

re: USB-C P/D hardware design question 

@cmb I think you might have experience with this?

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USB-C P/D hardware design question 

I'm quite lost in the weeds of USB Type-C P/D and alt mode negotiation, so hopefully someone can help me out :)

I'm designing a simple sink, that needs to request power (not picky about voltages at all, but requesting max available would be ideal), and gets the DisplayPort signal out

From what I can see most chips don't use this configuration by default, and need either config/firmware flashing through proprietary tooling (eww), or an external controller, and there's a bunch of different (open source) firmware implementations for stm32/arduino/rp2040, with varying functionality.

What's the easiest way to get power + displayport, with the simplest (none) extra flashing steps or chips?

Ideally I could re-use a Framework top-cover too, but they're a bit too expensive to buy a replacement just for this (~100 eur). Could be marketed as a great upgrade path to the newer CNC top-cover though, so might just send Framework a message about their developer program stuff

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