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Went out for an hour with the radio. Took half of it to troubleshoot WSJT-X only to realise that the steam deck was 9 seconds out of sync!! Managed a FT8 contact before having to head off.

A better go on the radio this afternoon. Couple of ft8 contacts and my first QSO on js8 call. Wind was bitterly cold so I only lasted about an hour and a half before packing it all up with frozen hands!

Got a mag mount CB antenna, for the mount rather than the antenna. Ok-ish swr on ft8 this morning but no bites. Afternoon was better. New battery hooked up and got contact on 20m on full power. Digirig is still flakey though, slight cable disturbance and it momentarily disconnects the radio...

Spent my Saturday night soldering together one of these wee 49er CW kits. Figured it would only take an hour, 4 hours ago. On the plus side it appears to work, and I didn't miscount toroid windings😅 Have been contemplating a (tr)usdx kit, so working up to it.

First time out with the radio in a while. Drove all the way out, got the rig set up but for some reason the laptop kept losing cat control.... Figured I'd try some voice contacts instead but I left the mic at home! 🤦 At least the view was nice and the temperature was above 4°C

D-YIKES-tra, right? #adventofcode p2 was fine once I re-read it a few times

Great, I now can't log into wordpress dot org because I fundamentally disagree with this atrocious culinary choice.

We were blessed by @was.tl for the 10th (!!) year in a row with another awesome #AdventOfCode edition 😊 - and it's the 7th year I run the unofficial/community AoC Survey! Here's a reminder to fill it out before it closes (~Dec 22nd) 😉 Survey at: forms.gle/iX1mkrt17c6Z...

Getting absolutely tangled up my edge cases on today's #adventofcode Started too late in the day, will need to revisit after a nights sleep 😂

In today's round of #adventofcode I inadvertently solved part 2 while trying to do part 1 🤦‍♂️😅

The whole affair highlights how the delicate web of domain registrars and DNS servers can remain a key failure point for web-based businesses.

Managed to get p1 done before work today but tripped myself up with a silly algo logic and an even sillier count error so didn't get p2 done until after. It's been a _very_ long time since I've heard the word 'defrag' - very satisfying though! #adventofcode

Today's #adventofcode included a bit or radio stuff. The Easter bunnies are obviously playing around with Baofeng UV-5R radios that are spuriously emitting everywhere!

Miserable Saturday afternoon so nothing beteer to do than today's #adventofcode Since it's the weekend I took my time. My code has classes, functions, enums, and even recursion instead of the weekday procedural brute force approach 😅

Day 6, part 2 of #adventofcode took, well, lets just say some amount of time to run. So while waiting for that to run, I did a visualizer for part one.

Still getting black Friday emails... My brother in Christ, it's December

For once in my life I did part 1 of #AdventOfCode right and part 2 was straight forward. We live in strange times...

Continuing on with just lazily doing #AdventOfCode - after brute forcing yesterday, today was all about regex

Day 2 of #AdventOfCode and I'm already just brute forcing the solution while saying to myself that I'll refactor later... 😅

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com

Checked psk reporter from the earlier radio activity and it's looking MUCH better!

Having a much better time with the radio today. Thank you @wgoodf.bsky.social for the tips last night. Doing much better on 20m with a battery hooked up to the radio!

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you. All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

A great-to-know tip to verify yourself using your Github account if you don't have a personal domain. 👇

#cybersecurity tip: Don’t use a computer or internet connected device

Gotta say, I'm enjoying the algorithm over here. I'm getting fed interesting tech posts, a nice community of amateur radio enthusiasts, and a lot of cat photos! Makes a welcome change from alternative facts, onlyScams, and junk product adverts.

Bluesky now over 20 million users. Adding 7.1 new users per second. 426 new users per minute. 25,560 new users per hour. Fun to watch: bcounter.nat.vg

For those looking for people from the #amateurradio community, check out this starter pack from @g0mfr.bsky.social. An awesome list of awesome people. go.bsky.app/EryQ3Rh

Wow! Since I got so many new followers over the last few days, I will post some PolyKybd pics.🎉 Once a while, I also post some stuff on ko-fi.com/polykb/posts and in case someone is interested in the kit, head to www.crowdsupply.com/polykybd/pol... Thank You🙏

A lot of great stuff here. The "use dom" stuff would have been amazing when I was getting started trying to transition an existing site into an app!

everybody atheist till they gotta update a bios

This. Is. A. Disgrace.