icco @icco@merveilles.town

https://ben.akrin.com/?page_id=9650 this is cool! A diy plotter.

Yesterday I coded up a Golang library for https://lunchmoney.app - https://github.com/icco/lunchmoney

I found some bugs in their API while doing it, thankfully Jen, their founder, is incredibly responsive.

Have any of you regularly woken up before 6a? I'm thinking of starting my day significantly earlier (I currently wake at 6:45a, thinking of trying 4a). I'm curious about how folks structure their day, what problems they ran into with early start times.

Two and a half years after it was published, I finally built a marketing page for my first book. https://realworldsre.com

PRs to make it better are welcome https://github.com/icco/realworldsre.com

https://framagit.org/tom79/fedilab/-/issues/498 wow, be nice to your local open source contributor.

I'm enjoying journaling more again. How I journal has gone through lots of iterations, but rewriting https://github.com/icco/etu has made it a great platform for me to write. Still not back to the level I was at in 2018, but here's hoping.

https://etu.natwelch.com/pages is a read only list of stuff now in the journal / wiki / memex.

I have a cli editor, I wanna build a mobile app, but that's in the future.

Cloudflare is garbage. It hosts tons of hate websites. Has since it was founded. https://who-hosts-hate.com keeps track of all of the horrible websites they host. Stop giving them money. They don't even make a good product.

ah ha. Of course as soon as I post this I am able to find it. https://swling.com/blog/2020/11/a-review-of-the-lab599-discovery-tx-500-qrp-transceiver/

My memory is failing me. I feel like I saw a ham radio or some other device that looked like https://www.torsoelectronics.com/t-1 but wasn't for music... but it could have been anything else. Anyone know what I'm talking about? All I can remember is a photo of it in a messenger bag in an empty field.

Have folks done any Ham recording? Been researching Ham SDR, and curious what folks here have done.

Whelp, back to work today. Going to try and be better about journaling and putting stuff in the memex, we'll see how it goes.

Put together my year in review https://writing.natwelch.com/post/714

Happy New Years Merveilles. You all inspire me. Keep on building!

Example query to get this data: https://graphqlbin.com/v2/7nlpIZ

Data is updated every minute.

#theWorkshop I repurposed an old display and built a little numbers dashboard. I think I'm going to add history spark lines as well. Need to figure out how to mount on my wall.

You can access all of this data as well at https://graphql.natwelch.com

Built a bunch of small projects over the four days I had off. One of which was setting up an ETH2 Testnet node.

What I'm really struggling with is understanding the current hype and community around Ethereum.

Decided to try and summarize how the backgrounds of the largest contributors to Golang influenced it's design. Top 10 contributors by lines added are all white men, many worked at Bell Labs, worked on Plan 9, and have PhDs from MIT. I expected this, but was still a bit shocking.