Today I learned about SMD soldering by hot air.
HackerNews Readings
This is great: HackerNews Readings. It’s a listing of 40,000 books recommended on Hacker News.
Unicode 14.0.0
So Unicode 14.0.0 is out.
JLCPCB for printed circuit boards
So in my travels recently I discovered JLCPCB. They can make custom circuit boards and their prices seem very affordable. I don’t know what other companies might be out there offering similar services but I don’t think I’ll need to look further…
Update: 2021-09-24 jj5 – also check out the service from Seeed Studio. Thanks to my mate Raz for the suggestion.
Chinese AM/FM radio kit (attempt 1)
So I got myself a 1set AM / FM stereo AM radio kit / DIY CF210SP electronic production suite. Here’s me preparing to put it together…
And here’s me failing with the surface mount integrated circuit and ruining the circuit board:
I think now it’s time to learn more about SMD soldering and to check out those who came before: CF210SP.
Here’s a picture of the PCB I ruined:
SPI: The serial peripheral interface
This via Lobste.rs today: SPI: The serial peripheral interface.
JSON Schema bundling finally formalised
Today via r/programming: JSON Schema bundling finally formalised.
New wrist pad
Out with the old and in with the new! I paid a bazzilion dollars to get one of these shipped in from America because I didn’t want one with branding.
List of 7400-series integrated circuits
All the 74xx logic chips that have ever been made: List of 7400-series integrated circuits.
Oh, and also: List of 4000-series integrated circuits.
Reactions to REST API Design Rulebook
I’m reading REST API Design Rulebook. On page 12 the author says “two different URIs map to two different resources”, but that’s wrong, many URIs can refer to the same resource, with and without respect to time.