It's been a long one, but we've finally got the paper out!

Someone sent me AI art of Salmon in the river but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 💀💀💀

Just wrote this function to convert arbitrary numbers to base-26 in a-z form (JavaScript): fn = (n, p=0, r="") => n>25 ? fn(n-26, p+1, fn(p)) : r + String.fromCharCode(n + 97); It works, but I'm too tired to say whether or not the implementation could be better.

Hey Gordon Williams - I'm thinking of buying a Bangle.js 2 but am wondering about the hackability of it. I see you've got a teardown tutorial for the v1, and I've heard that even the bootloader is hackable - with a v2 would it be possible, to, say, add extra buttons?

Had a number of goodies turn up from pimoroni in the last 48 hours, but chief among the things I'm hyped for is this Gordon Williams Bangle.js! *Time* to get hacking...

Amazon's finally nailed what it's like to talk to Alexa when you've got music playing

Been cleaning out and organising the flat this week, and just found this fingerprint scanner I ripped out of a laptop and soldered a USB port to, like, over a decade ago. I remember it stopped working after I glued the wires for support. Plugged it in and suddenly, it's working!

Honey has found rewards! ...on ...a paper... ...about the dragonfly visual processing system.

#ChatGPT seems to have some issues understanding JavaScript's 'every' operator behaviour. While this is definitely a rather niche area of behaviour, it definitely highlights the issues that might come with relying on generalising LLMs.

I have just come across the single most impressive control systems video I believe I have ever seen: youtu.be/I5GvwWKkBmg

I would just like to take this moment to highlight my absolute disdain for gift cards, particularly the type that One4allGiftCardsUK sell that expire after a year, silently draining money out of them. I beg you: cut out the middle-man and just give someone money instead.

My friend just put up this cool #rp2040 project for #Marchintosh - if you like VGA and retro computers, watch it.

Just watched #suzume - was that a "club penguin" reference on a phone about 2/3rds of the way through?

I don't normally post about food, but me and my gf managed to go back to our favorite food place in Japan today - Nagasaki Toruko Rice Shokudo! It may have been three years since our last visits, but it's still great! Highly recommended if you're in Akihabara.

I'm not really big on politics, but this case does seem rather significant.

Just finished a round of Immersive Gamebox in Manchester - it was good fun but pleeease let me make a game for the system D: There's so much that could be done with it!