just messing around with my progenitor's old guitar.

I got irritated by a content marketer.

A tiny clip of the band and I doing Ophelia - I wasn't planning to post it but it got onto Facebook and a situation where Meta has it and Fedi does not is intolerable.

Me and my dog walking the trail I cleared this summer.

A somewhat boring demo of a song about my life.

A #filk of American Remains about Free Software dev and Fediverse admins. Let Freedom ring.

I'm a Free Software developer, I sit in a darkened room,

The world runs on the work we do, you use it every day

The Capital's tried more than once to shoot us in the chest

I am the chief GNUsance, I could not stand the walls

The hoarders, they got money and some aces up their sleeve

Now I ain't here to tell a single person how to live,

We're the Fediverse admins and we are all throughout the land,

a #filk of a well known anthem. Inspired by when they took over Ottawa. I've been on a bit of a Highwaymen binge this week and apparently I like writing activist parodies of country tunes.

D G

D G

E A

E A

E A

Just desoldered the brain board from this old Portasound, trying to figure out how exactly this works. I haven't finished figuring out the paths exactly, but broadly speaking it's [a diode matrix]. TIL.

Cool idea: 8 in, 6 out, 44 keys. It took me a long time to wrap my head around how it could work because I did not take into account that it's a digital circuit rather than an analog one; voltage is fed to each input in a cycle, and there's a diode at the junction of each in/out (row/column in most tutorials). A rapidly-looping microcontroller (in my case it's gonna be an STM32 device I got for a couple bucks off aliexpress) feeds voltage to an input and then scans all the outputs, which are receiving voltage if the switch at the junction is closed, with the diode providing isolation to each junction to prevent what are called masking errors where one key being pressed will create false positives or negatives, in all honesty I didn't get straight with understanding the problem at a deep level because the matrix is already built so I won't have to deal with it. :>

Just a quick video I took of what it looks like under the dirt of the SIP bins I built today, featuring a watering upgrade - I've been adding to our SIP collection every year, and this year I changed up the filling system from a simple pipe that sticks into one of the perf tube reservoirs, and instead have a Gardena-style hose connector with a bit of flexible hose going into the reservoir instead. This allows the user to dance around slapping themselves while the bugs feast, cause there's nothing worse than being required to stand still outdoors in the country.

The pieces of perf tube are sealed at the ends with tuck tape (I didn't actually investigate how toxic that adhesive is first, I might be digging these back up, but I used it in last year's batch and we have not grown any extra limbs...) allowing them to hold water and not fill up with dirt. Note that when filling these you need to be sure to shake the peat mix down into the spaces underneath, as it's crucial to the wicking action.

Note also that you want the fill tube to go in at one end, and the drain tube at the other end; this ensures that all the reservoirs fill up before it starts to drain.