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so I've been good at only keeping my bullet journal when I feel like it, accepting that there will be days missing.

Also compiled a list of server maid things I need to do, and there's a ton of stuff hah. Good thing they're not high priority, having the list is good so I can just pick something to work on when I feel like it.
Boils down to making pixie.town infra better, and migrating my oldest personal vps to new shiny nixos with lower specs

what even is yarr.io? site is completely locked behind a login wall

#PostMortem:
during a system upgrade wireguard suddenly cut out (not sure if that was a homeserver or endpoint-vps error). Unable to reconnect, I asked someone at home to force-reboot, which resulted in a corrupt kernel.

that would've been easy to fix from a live-usb, which I tried, except the cryptsetup initramfs part complained with stuff being mounted wrong in the chroot. Those errors were hidden behind a flood of useless error messages (known bug), so I did not notice and tried various things
in the end mounting the disks in the liveusb as expected, then regenerating the initramfs fixed it

my timeline is going absolutely nuts backfilling the old toots from the last 7 hours

woooo we're back online
after long debugging in the cold next to my windy front door; with emotional support from my blahaj and technical support from IRC #debian my homeserver (and pixie.town workhorse) is all working again after a system malfunction during an upgrade

@jess one thing thomasthetankenginehasbones.com doesn't make clear is if it's *his* skeleton inside...

all ready for fab~

rerouting it all wasn't as much work as I feared, because I already had the general ideas and techniques in my head. Also added the option for a smaller button on the front, as the Alps is quite tall

so yeah, realized I actually did a big oof in my pcb design, need to mirror all the stuff on the back or the segments light up counter-clockwise...

means a lot of redo-ing but uh.. at least I realised before ordering them...

I forgot to reconnect a bunch of traces in the top left somehow oof. Fixed and sent to a friend to review further

well.. couldn't help myself making some last minute changes. With fresh eyes I realized it was possible to do the routing better, removing the need for the 3 0hm bridging resistors (marked red in picture 1).

also added a link to tilde.industries, product name, and moved a few other things around to make it nicer to solder

fuuuu Im improving my pcb in all sorts of ways now and I wanted to order

now comes the stressful part, doing a full review of the pcb, and then ordering while hoping for the best :>

some more context because I'll probably pin it on my profile:

This is a pcb that's designed to go in the cap (on the outside) of a Dopper water bottle. It keeps track of your water consumption, by counting up whenever you click the button (when you finish your 500ml)

attached image is the backside of this same pcb, which has all the smarts. The black ic on top is a 74HC4017D decade counter. Everytime the button on the front gets pressed, the number stored gets incremented, and for a few seconds power is supplied to the led segment that's linked to that number. When the counter reaches 5 it resets to 0.

so today I got the art design for my water counter pcb, and holy shit is it awesome.
Did a bit more tweaking, and should be all ready for fab now :O

please... could you strawman me into saying I want you to say more strawmen

and this one. Glad I didn't disturb them either

these pictures turned out so nice. Cat was incredibly peaceful, and the combination of sun and picture angle was less of an issue than expected

finally got around to fixing my scooter lighting. During #36c3 I discovered a break in the strip, so half the strip was unusable. Managed to sort of bend it right and then stick in place with lots of cyber stickers.

Redid the whole strip today, and made the lipo+esp32 pack removable, held in place with velcro pads and a not quite tightened ziptie. Really nice to take just that inside for charging