Posts by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AkTr731v4EZFKUsRRQ by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T03:30:01Z
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wow okay apparently it’s real, and they raised $2.5 million dollars, AND they spent $1.8 million of those dollars buying the domain name friend-dot-com, which is downright hilarious. I just spent $1.99 on the subway ride home buying the domain “enemy.lol”; anyone with web design chops wanna get in on this? I think “enemy” is a AI pendant that texts you to poke at your deepest insecurities. (with a premium plan it'll send your friends recordings of you talking about them behind their backs)
(DIR) Post #AkTr73KLxhJSFfVAAq by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T04:26:53Z
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i have too many things to do to be wasting time on this
(DIR) Post #AkTr747H1oRchOOEQS by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T05:13:20Z
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on the one hand, this was a colossal waste of time and money. on the other hand it wasn't that much time. (or money.) https://www.enemy.lol
(DIR) Post #AlNl3O3fDyAmW3JuMq by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-08-27T04:38:10Z
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said this to someone on my discord on the topic of making open hardware products; felt relevant to share: it's hard to do these things at all, it's excruciatingly hard to do them well, and it can be overwhelming, in every sense of the word, to do these things in the open. at teardown another maker told me that making open hardware is a lot like getting punched repeatedly in the face, so, yeah: i have mad respect for anyone who braves all that and gets an actual product over the finish line.
(DIR) Post #AnxFWgZNnwUqVmRd4a by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-11-12T03:40:48Z
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Thank you @North for making the BeanCounter. It’s absolutely saving my ass as I scrounge parts for this Sensor Watch Pro manufacturing run. https://www.crowdsupply.com/great-big-factory/beancounter
(DIR) Post #Ao6XbWIEzEergXWLEu by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-10-16T23:05:28Z
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Welp. One year late, I managed to get my @hackaday #supercon badge hack working, just by looking at it with fresh eyes for 15 minutes. The thing that kills me: I designed the hardware right, and I got it built in time, AND the software was essentially correct. If not for a one-bit configuration error, I could have presented this demo on stage.
(DIR) Post #Ao6XbYWqftX0cQN2Ho by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2024-10-16T23:40:48Z
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the code. Which even last year was written in gossamer, the framework that now underlies Second Movement, the new firmware for Sensor Watch. And yeah: as hacks go, this one couldn't be simpler. https://github.com/joeycastillo/gossamer/blob/312d1da81efca6c0f4657c20d59deb3c8d9409a6/examples/vectorscope_tapedeck/app.c#L147
(DIR) Post #AsxuiJIbg7VfWwdt44 by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-04-10T01:56:06Z
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to give a sense of how fast we’re speed-running the endgame here: today was announced a 90 day pause on most tariffs. 90 days ago, Joe Biden was still president.
(DIR) Post #AuKaFpMQt6lDK2byFs by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-05-21T21:09:52Z
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This is me now.
(DIR) Post #AuPHDfkuhZe1cA7XyC by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-05-21T22:53:31Z
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By way of explanation: I have shipped four variants of #SensorWatch over the years, and this is me testing the release candidate firmware on all of them. Because you can’t test a wearable on a workbench alone. You have to wear it.
(DIR) Post #AuPHDgqycW5Z1Fxu3k by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-05-22T21:04:26Z
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Update: I have severely improved my predicament.
(DIR) Post #AuPHDkoHuSJZI4joQK by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-05-23T21:53:47Z
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Better yet:
(DIR) Post #AwKvUnItX9OquDoqau by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-07-20T02:10:22Z
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spotted, bumper sticker, upstate art weekend: “Think about honking if you ❤️ conceptual art”
(DIR) Post #AwKvUoSrDaxmVPUJlI by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-07-20T16:47:13Z
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gah the bumper stickers up here are so good
(DIR) Post #AwqxcDhKPT03lAS7cG by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-08-04T18:10:32Z
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“One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era. Also they’re worried I’m planning on firing all of them. That’s true, but not relevant here.” https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/
(DIR) Post #B0qzrGvoApqYm0qAWu by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T23:06:52Z
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when I get home I'm going to print this out and put it in the window of our lab https://existentialcomics.com/comic/629
(DIR) Post #B0qzrI3zxrzaHhgDw0 by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T23:17:40Z
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(previously in the lab window)
(DIR) Post #B1DilLmG0w1fTq2efY by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-12-13T22:55:20Z
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“Gen Z daters want deeper connections, but they’re struggling to start the conversations that build them. The good news? They’re ready to bridge the gap with curiosity, vulnerability, and AI.” https://hinge.co/newsroom/2025-GenZ-Report
(DIR) Post #B1DilMunmeSH0d2zcu by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-12-13T22:56:44Z
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(DIR) Post #B1HjBHeYkOccqoeAnQ by joeycastillo@mastodon.social
2025-12-15T21:17:57Z
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I can almost taste the /* SHOULD NOT HAPPEN */ next to this case label in the codebase.