Here are just a few random links to web pages I find interesting or relevant in some way. Can be used to kill some time of discover some random web pages I find interesting or relevant in some way. I'll not list this as incomplete although such a list can of course never be complete. I may remove from or add to this list at different intervals.
There are more than two ways to display the time. There are a few project ideas in my head to create clocks that don't use digits or hands but tell you the time in non-conventional ways. At some point I wanted to make a clock that uses a method that I've never seen or heard of before. I came up with one that uses colour scales for hours, minutes and seconds. This is the one i have actually built.
I chose a picture from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that's related to time. Fans of the show know why I called it Tardie. Three parts of the picture are laser etched in three sheets of acrylic. Each sheet has RGB LEDs on its side so each sheet can be individually lit in a different colour. An Arduino Pro Mini and a realtime clock module control the colours of the three LED strips.
So you can tell the hours by looking at the colour of the pony (hours - horse), the minutes from the colour of the mane (minutes - mane) and the seconds from the eye colour (seconds - seducing eyes). The idea was that by looking at it multiple times a day, then looking at an actual clock, you could learn to tell the time almost instantly by looking at the colours. But I didn't get around to print the colour scale for reference, yet. And I don't hape room for the thing on my desk anyway. There is a clock on my screen that doesn't take up so much space. So I can only say that it works in theory.
I don't understand how people can be so cruel.
She was just sitting there in the cold, abandoned.
She's better now though.
These pictures have been published with Twilight's consent.
You know what my problem is? I get too many ideas of things that I could attempt to make. More ideas than I could ever try and realise. So instead of picking a project and investing time in it I keep getting stuck in a loop of thinking about how I would make all those things that I'll never make. Because that's easier and faster, I suppose. Also how can I choose which project to work on when many of my ideas feel like they could be good ideas. It's often impossibly to decide based on objective criteria what I should do.
I think I'll post some of my case modding and electronics ideas in a new category (Project Ideas) here in the future. They will lack the visual pictures that I have in my mind. But maybe when I tell somebody (anybody, even non-existing future blog readers) about some of them then I can allow myself to treat them as done and stop thinking about how I could and should start working on them some time. They may not be good ideas and I may not put too much (or any) effort into trying to convey why they are an important or good idea to me. But who knows, maybe there will even be some interesting stuff.
Irgend wie habe ich es geschafft, bis zum Beginn der so genannten dritten Welle in Deutschland zu bestehen, ohne diesen Gedanke gehabt zu haben:
So ziemlich fast so gut wie quasi alle Corona-Infektionen, die derzeit stattfinden, wurden durch Missachtung der Hygieneregeln ermöglicht. Es sind nicht verzeihlich wenige Fälle, die durch verzeihliche Mishaps entstehen. Es sind größtenteils im privaten Bereich von Menschen, die unachtsam, ignorant und unverantwortlich mit ihren Kontakte umgehen, stattfindende, zum Großteil sehr einfch vermeidbare Infektionen.
Daraus folgernd will ich versuchen, nicht mehr so nach außen verständnisvoll zu reagieren, wenn Mitmenschen der Ansicht sind, mich maskenlose und/oder abstabdslos belästigen zu müssen.
(Toll, ich habe entschieden, arschlochiger zu werden. Entscheidung zurückgezogen.)
By now the initial introduction of SBWG that I've written in the first entry in this category is not only incomplete but in its details largely obsolete. SBWG matured a great deal in the last months and I feel like publishing a new version. I have started documenting stuff properly in the README and other files included in the package since I have a set goal for version 1.0. I will likely add no new features until I have made something that I can satidfyingly call version 1.0. Right now I'm in between versions 0.8.6 and 0.8.7. I call in-between version wip (work in progress). I feel like publishing what I have so far right now. So here is a wip version: 0.8.6-wip.
I've finally taken some time to overhaul my dotfiles. I took a lot from git repositories and reddit posts that I've found and added some functions and aliases myself. I'm using Bash 4 and haven't tested any of this with any other shell. I've removed and redacted personal lines.
There are a lot of dotfiles that other's have shared that would be worth sharing here. But it's easy to find those and I don't know what you'd like or not. So I'll point out just one simple project, "Sensible Bash by Mattia Tezzele, that attempts to set saner Bash defaults.
This is one of these things that gets copied around without crediting the author or mentioning any source. Yea, I'm doing it too. I don't know where I got it from anymore.
If you still have a physical pcspeaker, execute this in your Linux shell for some beep music:
beep -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 -n -l 700 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 622.26 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 -n -l 700 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 698.46 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 -n -l 50 -f 659.26 -D 400 -n -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 -n -l 350 -f 554.36 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 -n -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 -n -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 -n -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 466.16 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 -n -l 700 -f 587.32 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 698.46 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 -n -l 50 -f 659.26 -D 400 -n -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 -n -l 350 -f 554.36 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 -n -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 -n -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 -n -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 -n -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 -n -l 300 -f 392.00 -D 150 -n -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 -n -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 -n -l 700 -f 392
I've converted it for FreeBSD:
echo "L15T120MSO4G...G...G...D#..A#G...D#..A#G.....>D...D...D...D#..<A#F#...D#..A#G.....>G...<G..G>G...F#..FED#E.~~~~<G#~>C#...C..<BA#AA#.~~~~D#~F#...D#..GA#...G..A#>D.....G...<G..G>G...F#..FED#E.~~~~<G#~>C#...C..<BA#AA#.~~~~D#~G...D#..A#G.._~D#...A#G....." > /dev/speaker
I'm no musician. I know it's not quite right. But if you ask me, for what it is it's almost good enough. (I think you can tell that I'm not a Star Wars
fan.)
