icco @icco@merveilles.town
Software developer & Author living in NY.
Joined Dec 2019
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I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.
When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.
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are there any 'dumbphone' (feature phone) users here on the fediverse? which phone do you use and why? whats your preferred phone? how'd you make the switch?
Gave a talk at work yesterday to inspire folks about the project we're working on to the whole company. Never done a hype talk like that before, but it seems it was well received! Yay!
Anyways, code for Cron is at https://github.com/icco/cron and code for code.natwelch.com is at https://github.com/icco/code.natwelch.com
But! I did finally write some common Go libraries for me to use, as I saw some consistent problems: https://github.com/icco/gutil
I also migrated all of my Go apps from Logrus to Zap, which has provided much better logs.
The real pain though was I also moved from a hand rolled k8s cluster to using Google's new Autopilot GKE k8s cluster, and I ran into so many undocumented hard edges. Part of this caused me to have to rewrite my entire CD pipeline... which still isn't quite done.
#theWorkshop I rewrote https://code.natwelch.com over the weekend. Moved from ruby I wrote in 2011 to Go, and updated the d3 to v6 from v3.
Better viz and a little faster now which is nice.
Whelp, my wife and I just spent most of March sick with covid. Finally recovering.
One symptom that surprised me was the confusion. The complete inability to think clearly was super weird.
I love slat flip and dot flip displays. https://hackaday.io/project/18541-dot-flippers is a fun look into a dot flip display
Took Friday and Monday off. Normally I'd take these days off for my birthday and go to a museum or something. Instead I'm trying to get my second book out the door.
... Taking time off of work to do work is something I always feel weird about.
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Learning that people suffering from the storm and blackout in Texas were using the guide in our book Recipes for Disaster to build a rocketstove with which to heat food and water, we've put the directions online here in their entirety:
Please circulate.
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"The guru is not exposed as a liar or a lech, a joker or a thief, but “only” a child laughing in the sun. The seeker’s mistake did not lay in identifying something special in this person, but in believing — hoping — that this specialness had something to do with knowing the truth. Instead, the numinous boils down to an ordinary state of radiant and childlike joy."
I realize I've been tooting for a while on Merveilles and never wrote an intro. so sorry for the delay... of 12 months or so?
I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.
When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.
My work (timebyping.com) is looking to start donating small amounts of money to open source projects that sanctify or save time.
As a common theme of merv is journaling and time tracking, I'd love to hear suggestions from you all.
One of those days where I'm just too overwhelmed to do anything.
icco
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Anyone interested in an NSynth Super?
https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/
I might be building one for a family member, and it would make sense to buy components for couple more to get up to MOQ on the PCB etc. EU shipping only.
I could probably provide them fully-assembled but also as some kinds of kits if anyone wants that. Let me know in DM or reply, RTs appreciated too! :)
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/ fun hardware hacking revitalizing old kindles!
While cleaning up some old tech boxes, I found an old Sony camera, and an HDMI capture device. Set it up as a temp webcam, which was kind of funny because it shows all of the tooling on the screen.
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Oh, dang… “Today’s open-world video games resemble gig economy platforms, with endless task lists to conquer”
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lisperati1000-raspberry-pi-project is neat. I couldn't use it tho, would totally mess up my back at that angle.
Software developer & Author living in NY.
Joined Dec 2019
