Engineer PA-09 crimping tool
So my new Engineer PA-09 crimping tool arrived today, here are some photos of the packaging:
Some light reading…
DVD power cable connector type
There’s a first time for everything, I have posted a question on reddit: DVD power cable connector type.
Update: well, I got an answer! I have ordered the following:
And I went all out and got myself a new crimping tool as well.
Electronics notebooks
So I got myself a copy of this Digi-Key Innovation Handbook and this Pocket Ref – 4th Edition – by Thomas J. Glover. The latter helped me discover Desk Ref, which I also got. :P
Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka is the guy who made Astro Boy.
New KDE Plasma widgets
So I upgraded my Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04. That mostly went without problem but there are still a few gremlins to iron out. One change was some of the desktop widgets I was using in the previous version seem to have been replaced. I found the replacements easily enough. I particularly like the new CPU activity widget, it’s a much more sensible way to visualise 24 CPU cores than the previous widget which just gave one reading instead of 24.

Quote for the day
I would like to know more about this: “CMOS latchup was a serious problem well into the 1980s. It no longer is.” from How the FPGA Came to Be, Part 1.
Today’s reading
I’m reading a bunch of things today. Among them: a dead tree version of The Unix Programming Environment; the wiki page for Seymour Cray; and Lex Fridman’s interview with Donald Knuth.