This in my feed today: How Clay’s UI Layout Algorithm Works:
Clay is a UI layout library written in C, and this video gives a high level explanation of how the flexbox-like layout algorithm in Clay works.
This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always.
I have a note here about Milo but I’m not sure why.
There is a rumor that the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is about cocaine addiction, particularly that the Seven Dwarfs represent the various stages. But Snopes says this theory is bunk.
Two authors Strunk & White wrote a book called The Elements of Style which is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. Famously they said “let every word tell”.
The phone you gave me I named ‘skadi’ after the Norse goddess Skaði.
According to John Cleese in his hilarious letter Something of a Retraction: Cleese letter to the U.S., French fries aren’t French, they’re Belgian.
I heard a rumour that DeepSeek says there are three r’s in “strawberry” but I can’t find a corroborating source.
Penny Arcade is great. I mentioned this one: Dirty One.
In Laws and Sausages the structure of the United States of America is explained in a comic format.
In Death of a Salesman there is a famous quote “A salesman is got to dream. It comes with the territory.”
Tribal not racist.
I think all you need for subjective experience is one or more sensors. Both consciousness and self-awareness are different to that. Although they probably do entail subjective experience too.
I should have a promotions policy on my website. Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into this.
There is a famous RFC: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. This, for instance, defines what the word “should” should mean.
The seven check marks are elements of white privilege, given as:
In Outliers the author Malcolm Gladwell comes to the conclusion that success is mostly luck. In the same book Gladwell says that to attain mastery the a subject needs to be actively studied for 10,000 hours.
In Magic Words and How to Use Them the author explains how you can use uncompromising positivity to craft the life you want. Seemed to work for me, if you’re positive about people they seem to magically be positive back.
The Old New Thing is a blog from Raymond Chen, a long time programmer from Microsoft who had a lot to do with Windows.
I mentioned that Alan Kay worked for both Atari and Apple.
The famous quote “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” is from Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
Asleep From Day by The Chemical Brothers.
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person from Alain de Botton.
Before you speak let your words pass through three gates:
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In this video we unbox and demo the R03U Wireless Mono Headset sent to me for review by Rown Fusny. This headset supports wireless connectivity for both USB and Bluetooth. I really enjoyed using this product and their customer support was first class.
It’s a mono device which means it only has a speaker for one ear, which is really good for your situational awareness because you can hear what’s going on in your environment through your other ear. Both the headphone and the microphone worked properly in both USB and Bluetooth mode.
I wasn’t able to get the USB mode to work on my Windows 10 machine, but I don’t know if that was related to the USB hardware on that computer or if it had to do with Windows 10 support for the device. I was able to get USB mode working on a Windows 11 Pro computer and one of my Debian 12 (bookworm) computers. I tested the Bluetooth mode on both iPhone 6s and iPhone 8.
One thing that I needed explained to me was that after you pair your Bluetooth device you may need to double click the power button on the headset in order to toggle from USB mode over to Bluetooth mode in order to activate the device. That’s why I had to contact customer support, because I was confused by this.
The device gives you status updates via audio. So if you toggle to USB mode it says “USB mode” and if you toggle to Bluetooth mode it says “Bluetooth mode”. If you disconnect the USB dongle or unpair the Bluetooth connection it says “disconnected”.
There is a microphone mute button on the headset and there are volume control buttons too. I tested the volume control buttons via Bluetooth but forgot to test via USB… hmm. Gimme a tick. Yep, the volume controls work on USB too!
Overall I was very pleased with this device and I would happily recommend this product!
In preparing this video I made some notes about my headphones which are still available on my wiki.
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Yum Cha 16MP USB Camera |
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In this video we make two cables for use with my oscilloscope or other devices with BNC sockets. The cables have a BNC connector on one end and two male jumper pins on the other end. This is so that I can easily connect my oscilloscope (or signal generator) to a breadboard.
Equipment which I might use these new cables with includes my Rigol MSO5074 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope and my UNI-T UTG962E Signal Generator.
In the video we use the METCAL PS-900 Soldering Station for soldering.
We use the EEVblog BM2257 Digital Multimeter to continuity test the cables and to check for shorts.
We use the Horusdy Soldering Station with Hot Air Gun for shrinking out heat shrink.
We use the Hakko CHP 3C-SA Precision Tweezers for pulling the heat shrink over the wire.
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Yum Cha 4K HDMI USB 3.0 HDMI To USB Adapter |
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This is a really great overview of a pretty big chunk of mathematics: How Math Becomes Difficult
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Update: if you’re interested in the Rown Fusny headset I do a demo video over here: Demo #8: Unboxing and Product Review of Rown Fusny R03U Wireless Mono Headset | In The Lab.
In this video we take a look at what has arrived in the mail recently from AliExpress:
I also mention my headset which arrived from Rown Fusny which we will be looking at together in a future video.
The equipment I got from Jaycar included:
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Yum Cha HD Webcam with Mic USB Camera |
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I found this video particularly helpful: Perfectly Reball Small BGA Chips Every Time. It’s funny this dude’s setup is very similar to mine!
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In this video we look at what has arrived recently from Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress:
Here is some extra info:
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3ELIGHTING 14″-27″ With 2 Arms VESA Wall Mount |
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This is too cool. A core dump then binary patch to work around memory hardware failure 15 BILLION MILES AWAY: How NASA Fixed a Software Bug 15 BILLION MILES AWAY | Voyager 1
Here’s an interesting video about integrating a display with your microcontroller: The BASICS of Adding a Display to Your Arduino, ESP32, STM32, or other MCU Project. The graphics library he recommends is LVGL.