Gerrit Niezen @gendor@merveilles.town

Good morning! I'm Gerrit. #intro #introductions

I'm into decentralized networks, open source hardware, modular design, distributed manufacturing, appropriate technology and solarpunk.

I spend most of my time liberating data from diabetes devices like insulin pumps and blood glucose meters, writing open-source software for tidepool.org.

I would like to spend more time growing food and building hardware to support that, and I hope to find inspiration here in the Merveilles.town community.

How to live with the climate crisis without becoming a nihilist

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-13/global-warming-climate-change-science-activism-jonathan-franzen

The case for climate rage: https://popula.com/2019/08/19/the-case-for-climate-rage/

An aspirational documentary to discover what the future could look like if we simply embraced the best that exists today: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=p-rTQ443akE

#theCinema #climatechange #2040film #solarpunk

The power of vim: I tried opening a 47MB JSON file in Sublime Text, but gave up after 10 minutes of it still loading. Tried vim instead using

cat unformatted.json | python -mjson.tool | vim -

and was viewing pretty-printed JSON in seconds.

The most unrealistic part of Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is where an academic publisher pays an author for writing papers.

Finished building an air quality monitor and wrote it up on my blog: https://gerritniezen.com/building-an-air-quality-monitor #theFoundry

Recently started using tmux after reading this guide: https://medium.com/actualize-network/a-minimalist-guide-to-tmux-13675fb160fa

I never really understood the power of detaching from sessions until I closed my terminal, opened it later, re-attached and everything was just as I left it.

Desoldering GPIO pins from the Raspberry Pi felt like removing splinters at first, but now it's more like pulling teeth. #theFoundry

Are there any modern, open-source text editors out there that are not owned by Microsoft?

I tried desoldering the Ethernet and USB ports on my Raspberry Pi(to build a NODE mini server https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server2.html) without success. Then I discovered Adafruit's Diet Pi tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/diet-raspberry-pi

Spent the rest of the evening gleefully destroying the ports into tiny little pieces with a side cutter.

#theFoundry

I've got an open-source Yubikey-like USB key from https://solokeys.com . While it doesn't (yet) replace password managers entirely, it's pretty magical to be able to authenticate myself on GitHub, Fastmail, GMail etc. by pressing a button.

Got the little OLED display on my TTGO ESP32 board with LoRa working: https://gerritniezen.com/getting-started-with-the-oled-display-on-a-ttgo-esp32-lora-board

#theFoundry