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@clomads.bsky.social

I make stuff at vdbx.io I talk about that stuff a lot. I live in a school bus named Gary Bussy. I do all my own stunts. Portfolio: www.clomads.com

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Just a reminder that PwrTool 500s are in a warehouse backlog and pending shipping to you in the coming weeks. I unfortunately do not have insight into this backlog, but it may be a good time to make sure your address is correct with Crowd Supply.

Building a Flutter app with Claude and having it poke around in the app on my tablets via debug to check it's work is wild. Esp on Android because there's always a tap sound. Still having an existential crisis that it's building complex working software without me looking at a single line of code.

sorry about the tinted slides, I didn't realize i had night shift on which also affects external displays, but they looked fine on the presenter screen and the projector tho.

It's actually batshit that I can just vibecode a vector design app that works for me. Like looking at this and knowing how little I had to do make competent software is really awe inspiring and disturbing at the same time. IDK that I've had an existential crisis as much as this.

If you're wondering, I'm making myself a CMS extension in VS code that already helps me edit my Astro website, but is also meant to help me maintain assets throughout my entire production pipeline - everything is saved in MD, YAML, CSV, and now SVG and PDF.

This will then extend to KiCad and FreeCAD file management which I've started some work on outside VS Code. I want to open source this at some point, but IDK yet how I feel about sharing slop, which I have to remind myself this is since I haven't even looked at the code.

I’ll be live at around 5:20pm PST tomorrow!

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We are less than 24hours away from the kick off for the 2026 OSHWA livestream!! October 10-11 8am-8am EST we will be live alllll day long talking open source hardware with folks from across the world with amazing projects! Join us for Good Slop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKr...

Confirmed Apple event next week and we're likely gonna get a new Apple TV - I'll def be getting one to confirm compatibility with my USB-C modkit. I'll open it on camera with a fresh modkit's tools to finally get an installation video started.

What's most impressive is it setting up all the CI to run builds on github. I even got it to break out the theme so i can reuse it on clomads.com which is just a gitbook site. Still gotta tidy up obsidian a bit, but looking forward to having all my data in one spot.

Yooo, this might be a better setup than the actual case. Still working on firmware and should be able send testers out soon. LMK if you’d use this with Home Assistant.

I'm on my fifth re-watch of "Count the rice" - idk that there's been a more re-watchable episode of Game Changer and I didn't really expect it to be this one.

First box of production PwrTool 500 showed up today, the rest should be here Monday. Noting that the prototype in my header image is from over 3 years ago. Crowd Supply orders being sent to Mouser this week.

How tf am I supposed to know that despite being on Kaiser and having gotten prescriptions thru Kaiser, because I'm on medi-cal there's another company that handles the actual payments. Not a single person could figure this out and that third party apparently hasn't been getting the prior auths.

I honestly feel like this shit is intentional at this point. I know it is, but seriously why isn't the company requesting PAs getting them from my doctor? Why doesn't he have their contact info. If they're sending them to kaiser why isn't kaiser forwarding them or telling them the right place.

Still waiting for usb c plugs to make a keychain adapter for Le’Fob (or whatever really). Working name is USB Dickey. Really happy how the ENIG branding turned out. We’ll see if it and Le’Fob will hold up on my keychain.

Key-gle got me reinvigorated in an old idea. Behold: Le’Fob - a bluetooth/2.4ghz universal fob. I ended up ordering a resin printer after these tests. I’m thinking the default config is just 4 BTHome buttons with double/hold/etc. but I have some outrageous ideas.

I have a neat idea to pair security keys over usb hid. Press a button, Home Assistant requests key, plug in your Le’Fob with USB, hold button for ~5 seconds and it types it out for you.

Apparently I do dabs now. I got a free gram from some promotion at my dispensary and just went back for more instead of my usual ounce of flower. I ended up getting a banger at the vape shop for $5 that works just fine in my existing bong.

I really wanna know if y'all would use this and what for. My personal use case is for tablet art. Anytime I use the pen on my Surface, I want like 3 modifiers (alt, ctrl, shift, etc). When touch browsing having CMD/Ctrl to open links in new tabs. Even media controls are proving useful af.

key-gle.json@clomads.bsky.social

Making a neat little macropad that can live in your usb-c port. I call it Key-Gle - the keyboard dongle. Based on CH552 which is new to me and learning a lot from vibe coding the firmware. Encoding a config blob into 128 bytes is super interesting work so it can be updated in browser without compile

After doing DIY HRT for years, going back to dealing with doctors is interesting when they're open to, but confused by, your regimen. Reminds me of that old verizon CS call when I'm arguing the difference between .07 and 0.7 - it's worse when you realize these people have medical degrees

Also in this case I'm advocating for less than what they'd expect when doing subcutaneous injections. Maybe they're confused by the volume, not the dose? They're still having issues with knowing that 1 unit in an insulin needle is .01 not 0.1 which is unnerving. i'll just round it moving forward.

Making a neat little macropad that can live in your usb-c port. I call it Key-Gle - the keyboard dongle. Based on CH552 which is new to me and learning a lot from vibe coding the firmware. Encoding a config blob into 128 bytes is super interesting work so it can be updated in browser without compile

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Theoretically 7 layers + sub layers possible = 42 ops with 49B remaining for a few being a macro or string dump. I'm working on encoding certain strings into a 1B lookup to a catalog in program rom - similar to how I'm handling single button press ops. I'm also ignoring hold actions for the moment.

I know people have feelings about LLMs, but for me, code seems like one of the least bad uses of it. I don't feel like I'm blindly making slop, but creating a thing I had in my head for years that I intend to maintain as open source. I did create the hardware the human way if that's any consolation.

Making a neat little macropad that can live in your usb-c port. I call it Key-Gle - the keyboard dongle. Based on CH552 which is new to me and learning a lot from vibe coding the firmware. Encoding a config blob into 128 bytes is super interesting work so it can be updated in browser without compile

That screenshot is very MVP. My thought is that double clicks or multibutton presses can invoke a layer or global operations. A layer sets color on ws2812 and it's single press ops. A re-invoke while on layer toggles to it's sublayer and back . Working on a macro system based on ducky script.

"Gold master" for PwrTool 500 and updated FLIP_C3 1.3 sent to Elecrow just as boards are coming out of the oven. You'll probably have an update waiting when you first connect, even if it's just a re-build with ESPHome July release.

key-gle.json@clomads.bsky.social

PwrTool 500 will use ESPHome's managed updates to deliver compiled OTA firmware updates if you choose to run stock. This allows us to push new features and fixes alongside keeping the underlying ESPHome code up to date and secure. If you do wanna hack, I'm looking forward to what y'all come up with.

PwrTool 500 will use ESPHome's managed updates to deliver compiled OTA firmware updates if you choose to run stock. This allows us to push new features and fixes alongside keeping the underlying ESPHome code up to date and secure. If you do wanna hack, I'm looking forward to what y'all come up with.

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Hasan Piker responds to heckler asking if he called for Charlie Kirk's death "I was supposed to debate Charlie. He respected that. It's sad to see the the conservative movement refuse to carry the flame. I on the other hand, do carry that flame. Because we are Charlie Kirk."

Currently looking for queer femme & poc illustrators who are open to commissions for my product packaging. I'd also like to offer royalties but not sure what that looks like. Suggest yourself and others you know or know of.