uConsole and IRC

Today I spent time in IRC and the uConsole. Fun!

Practice Follow Through

I've been reflecting on Disciplined Initiative and noticed a common failure. When discipline is lacking, disorganization often appears, especially when actions resemble a game of tag. Here’s how it plays out: someone owns a problem, decision, or situation. They recognize it needs attention, but progress depends on

Thought Terminating Cliches

Fascinating concept in Hacker News today about the idea of the "Thought Terminating Cliche"; which gets defined as : 💡The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized, and easily expressed. They become the start and finish of any ideological

Welcome to Management!

I think about the messaging I wish I'd gotten at certain points in my career, and then I write it. This is the speech I wish I'd gotten. Hello there, welcome to the Management path our company. You're a newly anointed leader of people,

Dragons Versus Minstrels

When it comes to how people handle knowledge in their professional lives, you find two ends of the spectrum: Dragons and Minstrels. Dragons love to hoard what they know. They tend to amass a wealth of useful information, and if you get the chance to look at some of the

Maintaining Boundaries

reposted from my company's blog I've been writing a lot lately. Some folk seem to appreciate it, for which I am grateful. It always feels arrogant on my part to write these, but I made a vow about four years ago; don't say anything

How to Take a Punch

reprinted from my company's internal blog I've been with my company for decades now, and it never ceases to surprise me at the cyclic nature of how people understand things. There truly is nothing new under the sun, and what's old becomes new again.

17 Days

It's actually about 100 now, since the last time I was completely struck down with a migraine. My wife talks about it far better than I can. 17 Days | Get Along HomeGet Along HomeGAHCindy

The Doom Scroller

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Doom Scroller. This is a Raspberry Pi Pico, a breadboard, a rotary encoder, a button, a suction cup, and an Altoid tin begging to be released from this mortal coil. I got the idea from MaxMacSTN trolling for 3D prints. I've

The Nine Rules of Debugging

I reached this link from this link. 1. Understand the system: Read the manual, read everything in depth, know the fundamentals, know the road map, understand your tools, and look up the details. 2. Make it fail: Do it again, start at the beginning, stimulate the failure, don't

Wiring e-ink display to a Raspi 4

repost from around August of 23 Documentation for the unit's here I'm using this unit. The PI's GPIO pins numerate left to right, top to bottom with the microSD on top. ModuleColorNamePi Pin VCCGray3.3V17 GNDBrownGND20 DINBlueMOSI19 CLKYellowSCLK23 CSOrangeCE024 DCGreenGPIO 2522 RSTWhiteGPIO 1711 BUSYPurpleGPIO

Intro to Self Hosting

Reprint from the blog I destroyed, circa March of 2024 So you want to get into self hosting? It’s a fun way to learn a lot of IT concepts, and if you don’t mind break/fixing, it’s worth a try. What do I need? * A server. What