Notices by deʃhipu (deshipu@mastodon.technology)

Last night I worked a little bit on a better example game for the Stage library for #circuitpython. I want a base that people can use as a starting point for making adventure games. Also, if I get it clean enough, I might re-write it live on a presentation I'm giving next month.

Whenever someone uses the word "lazy", what they actually mean is "doing other things than what I want you to do". It's the peak of control-freak culture.

Giving KiCad a chance...

I made it a little more minimal, to make it closer to Ben Vallack's Card that was the original inspiration.

Back to Fritzing.

I also want a board for experimenting with layouts, with switch sockets and a full matrix. This is my first time using sockets and they are a bit of a pain to route. I moved the diodes to the back, since the sockets are going to make it thick anyways.

One more try, this time with magnetic connectors between the halves. Initial fit test is fine, tomorrow assembly. I might need to file the edges of the connectors a little, as I put them too close together, but probably just bending the legs a bit will be sufficient.

This took a long time, because I was waiting for the switch sockets. They arrived yesterday, and I made a record number of mistakes: soldered the caps sideways and spent hours wondering why I can't program the chip. Finally, when it came to programming, I discovered that I routed everything wrong, and will have to move the chip to the other half to make it working. Today I woke up sick, and I'm staying in bed — it was probably already starting yesterday, which would explain all the mistakes.

And the keyboard is done. I like it, and I think this is going to be my travel keyboard from now on (the magnetic connector in the middle lets me split it in two for transport).

What if on every page of my wiki I put a hidden form, with the submit URL being the IP address of the client requesting the page?

Regular users will never see it, and even if they submit it, nothing special happens. But would spam bots DOS themselves?