Russ @russss@mastodon.social

Been building a new power network CAD system for EMF this year. This logical plan is auto-generated from the main GIS (DXF file).

Absolutely the worst day for someone to start laying asphalt outside my window. Urgh.

@rixx pretalx.org is looking a bit sad at the moment

Berlin friends: I'm visiting Monday-Thursday. Hit me up if you want to meet for a coffee/beer.

Inability to pay an EMF supplier traced to a bug in my bank OTP generation code because:

int(float('579.06') * 100) == 57905

I hate floats.

Stayed up too late reading a book about power network protection engineering theory and now I'm pretty sure everyone doing event power is doing it wrong.

Birdsite rant about maps, open data, and pointless, harmful privatisation: https://twitter.com/russss/status/1007255525527113728

Exercise really helps when I start feeling burned out and I'm awful at remembering this.

That's...my AWS bill.

We've lived in this house for 10 years and we've reached the stage where we have to re-paint things we painted 10 years ago.

If this paint sticks to my roof terrace steps anywhere near as well as it's stuck to my hands, it has been a good investment.

Not entirely sure how I ended up on this NASA mailing list for stations directly receiving data from their Earth-observation satellites.

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Got to have a look round the Tunnel Boring Machines for London's new 25km-long Tideway sewer.

Bluetooth support was advertised but doesn't appear to come as standard...

Acquired this frankly ridiculous USB power analyser because I couldn't find out what fast charge spec my new phone used.

The USB-PD future is not here yet, it seems.

Having ascended to the next plane of e-cigarette wankery, I am now mixing my own liquid.

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Turn a $5 USB-VGA adaptor into a SDR transmitter:

https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-fl2k/wiki/Wiki

It's slightly worrying how many British Standard numbers I know off by heart these days.