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mzzteron Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE

Last time i researched adding shift registers was over a year ago and I didn’t find many examples (I vaguely recall one possibly with qmk), and very little public discussion besides a reddit question. Popular guides like ai03’s at the time recommended upgrading to a microcontroller with more gpio before introducing shift registers.

Searching again, looks like zmk added support for the common 595 shift register: https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/pull/1325

Edit: You could avoid using diodes, but diodes increase the number of switches possible via a matrix more than shift registers do by giving you more gpio. I’d imagine one can use both together.

mzzteron Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared

looks like all the pins are shifted east a hundred ish miles to me

mzzteron Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made

TIL that :wq is like :x

I only knew about :x. So thus far I’ve only edited with :x, and then used :q! to quit without writing the changes.

mzzteron My bad habit of hoarding information

I also hoard information. Keeping a stream of links where I go back to a small percentage. But I find that it is a good habit for me. The links are a slice of the pages that I actually care about.

Though, I wish for a way to index and search specifically within my stream of links. So that I can better recall content that I have glanced at in the past.

mzzteron PayPal inactivity fee

I’m assuming DDA stands for demand/direct deposit account. Keeping a separate one with a low balance for internet accounts can help keep a primary account unaffected if paypal or other internet services initiate a transfer without your permission (could also be due to a compromised paypal account).

mzzteron People living on Earth – All on this page, one by one

Ah this makes sense after reading about the significance of the date November 15

> The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022.

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...

mzzteron Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666

Assuming 2000000000 is unix seconds, epochconverter.com converts it to Wednesday, May 18, 2033 3:33:20 AM GMT.

mzzteron React I love you, but you're bringing me down

relevant codeless code parable: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/123

mzzteron Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards

https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=2ff42256-1794-4720-a008-...

the generated card for me is somehow reversed. makes me wonder if the image is captured on the client-side and then uploaded.

mzzteron Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://mtso.io

custom jekyll theme. have made a custom static site generator before but switched to basic jekyll to focus on the content.

mzzteron Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

According to the FAQ: https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#general

> What does LWN stand for, anyway?

> LWN, initially, was "Linux Weekly News." That name has been deemphasized over time as we have moved beyond just the weekly coverage, and as we have looked at the free software community as a whole. We have yet to come up with a better meaning for LWN, however.

mzzteron Try charging on the right and not on the left

Non-obvious debugging involving a mental model of the physical world reminds me somewhat of “the case of the 500 mile email” [0]

[0] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

mzzteron HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

Any links to APIs that implement a 418 HTTP response code?

mzzteron Bash PS1 Generator

What is starship?

Edit: Found it, it’s a cross-shell prompt. Appears to require a binary install.

mzzteron Do You Love Me? [video]

I would love to see a Boston dynamics robot doing yoga. Exciting stuff :)

mzzteron How bad is your Spotify?

Same , but with:

- Ryan Caraveo, u okay? - ...of course, K.Flay

mzzteron RFC 8905 – The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments

Do or do not, there is no try :)

mzzteron ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (2019)

Depending on one’s pace of life, 60 minutes is not very long, and also gives enough time to enjoy the travel to the store.

mzzteron Ask HN: Guild/Studio structure for Software Engineers?

Does Latacora count? Though I don’t know how big they are at the moment. https://latacora.com/

mzzteron 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

I mean, it is similar to some actual pieces of abstract paintings where the texture makes the piece.

mzzteron Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Looks like the autocomplete is going off alphabetical order rather than some other characteristic of the city?

mzzteron Ask HN: No formal software education – is there hope for me?

This answer resonates with me a lot. I was in a what I consider to be a similar situation as the OP three years ago. Graduated with a fine arts degree, made a switch in developing software skills, took a few quarters of community college classes. Had over 200 side projects when I started applying around in 2017. I did a year at a part-time internship for almost no pay. In 2018, I started applying again with much more responses, and I finally landed a full-time software engineering role with my current company. Been really enjoying working here.

Open to chatting, email me at "~ (at) mtso (dot) io".

mzzteron Moving Away from Gmail

I’ve had a great experience with Purelymail, though I haven’t figured out how to complete the DKIM and DMARC setup.

When I was evaluating options for hosting an email address from my own domain, two things sold me on Purelymail: - special characters allowed in the name, like "~" - the pay-as-you-go pricing

mzzteron Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (2014)

Children are I

mzzteron Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

Same, the pain in the voices got to me.

mzzteron Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

Back in design school, web portfolios could get pretty interesting. One novel way was to put up a collaborative google doc with some initial info that visitors could edit.

An example of this was http://carlyayres.com/ though it has since been updated to a non-editable page.

mzzteron SimpleSSR: Server-Side Rendering at Scale

Agreed. Useful data in the first payload is what matters for a responsive experience. The kind of engineering team drives whether it is appropriately accomplished with view templates, rendered view frameworks, or some other HTML rendering technology that embeds preloaded data.

mzzteron What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)

When I applied to art school, I had to draw a bicycle as part of the admission evaluation. My peers would post their admission submissions online whether or not they were eventually admitted. If you search “RISD bicycle drawings”, you’ll see tons of bicycle drawings. They range from insanely photorealistic to simply abstract.

Obviously, we all used reference material to make sure our depiction was accurate. But it is nonetheless interesting to see what people come up with when trying to impress an art school admissions team.

mzzteron Stripe Home

Great to see they launched this! Been two years since the visual designs made it onto dribbble.

https://dribbble.com/shots/2537249-Home