Huh, AFI appears to have put out a pretty solid Bauhaus album last week?
I think I really like AFI?
My confusion is that I've heard a bunch of stuff from them on the radio or on shuffle over the years - but maybe only just now connected it all together as the same band? They've had a bunch of different sounds but I liked them all?
And that's not even getting into Blaqk Audio, which I didn't realize was kind of an AFI offshoot too.
@mossyfoot I'd say serve her nothing but plain boiled chicken wherever she goes, but she'd enjoy that
Miss Biscuits has learned how to work at home #cats
@ryanvis (brush knock-knock-knock)
The only problem is, occasionally, I require the use of two hands. Miss Biscuits is thus displeased
@tim_lavoie Well, really the only reason she was relaxed this morning is she'd just gotten done with zoomies all over the house chasing Cosmo around 😅
Bad news: My DIY blog software just deleted all the files for my blog from S3
Good news: All those files are generated from scratch by the blog software when it works normally.
Bad news: I need to reupload my whole blog.
Good / bad news: Nothing was lost except my S3 bill (and personal time)
mental health?
Possibly a niche experience: Procrastinating making an intake appointment for a new therapist for so long that they're no longer at the practice when you finally make the attempt?
@cinebox Yeah, I've used S3 for static site hosting since probably the week after they launched it way back when. Works very well. These days, I slap a Cloudfront CDN in front of an S3 bucket for SSL and a domain name, though.
@springdiesel I ride my bike past there all the time to sneer at the imprisoned bikes
Posted a new short story: "Behemoth"
It's kind of sci-fi, kind of Young Adult. Been sitting on this one for absurdly long, finally finished it. So, I'm posting it before I reconsider
@duchess hey pace yourself, bidet's on the roof
@kusuriya @cyberpunklibrarian Just to second this: I haven't tinkered in the Arduino IDE in a lil while. But, when last I did, there was support to basically port over whatever I had on an Arduino board to run on an ESP8266 and an ESP32. And from there I had the joys of wifi and whatnot that my lil Arduino board didn't have
@kusuriya @cyberpunklibrarian I guess the ESP32 doesn't have the same open source clout as an Arduino but a) the ESP32 is dirt cheap and b) maybe Arduino won't be open source either in a lil while 😅
@cyberpunklibrarian @kusuriya I'm probably out of date, but you *might* like the Teensy microcontroller boards too. I got a lot of use out of them as mechanical keyboard controllers
@kusuriya @cyberpunklibrarian Ah yeah, that's a lot of my crude tinkering these days - find an IoT device like a smart plug that has an ESP32 in it, reflash it with something flexible, "program" that with a YAML file in Home Assistant. The widget does what I want without me writing code
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@maddiefuzz He's the kind of guy to pride himself on knowing that, but doesn't actually know what they do
@cyberpunklibrarian @kusuriya One strange fun fact: If you're using Chrome and have the right USB / Serial cable, many microcontrollers can be programmed right from a browser these days with no special software installed 😅
@courtney I've had those around! They're more like buzzy birds, but still kind of friendly? Maybe more friendly than the hummingbirds
@fzer0 I think I saw this episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation