Posts by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
(DIR) Post #A7uYt6cDupn4qIuxe4 by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-06-03T14:08:08Z
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@Alastair I would, but @amcewen tells me I'm not hipster enough for one of those š
(DIR) Post #A8dSqL57onCZECvkcS by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-06-25T06:16:27Z
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@fitheach yep, I can remember it also, and being slightly heart broke that the friend I was travelling with at the time admitted he hadnāt voted as he didnāt think people would really vote leave š
(DIR) Post #A8mBkgT1Evqd1rX5jU by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-06-29T11:16:59Z
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@nick the Bosch was my first mobile phone, I loved it for that colour
(DIR) Post #A9eh1w8493x9c83a4G by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-07-25T15:34:28Z
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Design notes: dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's in my new guitar design:https://electricflapjack.com/blog/2021/7/25/refining-the-design-of-our-new-guitar-model
(DIR) Post #A9ei1wG7lIR7yHOIJE by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-07-25T15:50:39Z
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@penguin42 I think that might work well, but I think I need to get it working in plastic first due to costs, but I do agree metal probably would look awesome
(DIR) Post #ABd1dMWHRtfCpaw5tA by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-09-22T18:20:46Z
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TIL that the phono jack is almost 150 years old š¤Æ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)
(DIR) Post #ACM8WVc3smHCzfVIHY by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-10-14T12:52:29Z
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It's taken 15 years since I bought the album, but I'm finally digging The Brian Jonestown Massacre
(DIR) Post #ACMAY5KYloa7y5CFyC by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2021-10-14T13:29:47Z
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@fitheach I guess it's only fair, as there's albums in the collection I loved 15 years ago that now leave me cold.
(DIR) Post #AFTKPRmRb0zLGv8dou by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-01-15T17:43:16Z
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A week in the shop: after months of being just a CAD model, my Ćlgen guitar design finally begins to take form!https://www.electricflapjack.com/blog/2022/1/15/a-week-in-the-shop
(DIR) Post #AG8FKtlXTzGBY2saMi by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-02-04T11:18:28Z
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After over a decade of being a Mac user, a couple of years ago I switched to Windows (via Linux).Today, for work reasons, I'm briefly using a Mac as a daily driver again, and it's been hugely frustrating: it's amazing how much of computer use comes down to muscle memory. This used to feel like home, but now is a foreign land.
(DIR) Post #AG8YEj7w1TJdwb7qXQ by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-02-04T15:17:38Z
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@fitheach I needed to dual boot anyway for work reasons (I have to run Fusion 360 and occasionally Adobe apps), but WSL was just easier to live with given every distro I tried had issues with external displays on my laptop.Note I use Windows, but spend most of my dev time in WSL :) Basically Windows is a more usable window manager on my laptop, and it meant I didn't need to dual boot.
(DIR) Post #AHTEMMuqjf5qB0UE2S by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-03-16T12:35:58Z
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@penguin42 ouch
(DIR) Post #ANcOPXw0JeYuSawlHs by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-09-16T09:53:36Z
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@fitheach how do you sit on utilikilts then? I have two such items :)
(DIR) Post #AOrGk5OXaW8yeYCdyS by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-10-23T09:50:31Z
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We geeks did tend to overuse the term a bit, but I really am sad that I can no longer use the word "meta" as a description when it's appropriate without people now thinking of something horrible.
(DIR) Post #AOzOcpb2zSVqB73wuG by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-10-27T09:03:17Z
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I hadn't realised until I saw a post this morning by @workingclasshistory where the term "pie in the sky" comes from. My generation tends to use it as a generic term for a fanciful notion, but it originally comes from a protest song about how the workers were promised if the toiled hard today then they'd get to eat well... once they were dead and in heaven, hence the pie in the sky.Which is quite a bit more loaded with meaning than I'd used it before.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave
(DIR) Post #APxWnoR9RsRCKA2fBY by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-25T09:29:51Z
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Glad to see Glasgow roads department have come to terms with the state of the M8
(DIR) Post #APxd3VaTtjGWDoH1Oq by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-25T11:30:39Z
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@fitheach @neil itās been a good while since I saw that one :) I live down south now, but I grew up in Kirkintilloch - been back visiting the folks and siblings
(DIR) Post #AR6eeiaePaRDROoYk4 by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2022-12-29T17:33:50Z
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@xerz I have and idea about FPGAs, just my knowledge is close to 20 years out of date now :) I did an internship at Xilinx that was so much fun!
(DIR) Post #Ad4yL8lYFBn5J6lD6G by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2023-12-18T10:45:50Z
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Day 8 of #lovebytetcc in #ocaml. Very similar to my TIC-80 submission last year, but I needed to work out how to read and reply the old buffer, and I finally got rid of a bunch of global state that was bugging me - not very TCC, but helps better my OCaml.https://github.com/mdales/tcc23/blob/main/day8/bin/main.ml
(DIR) Post #AhzcmVRFm2wWRZ6fBI by mdales@mastodon.me.uk
2024-05-06T08:12:56Z
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I got this awesome print by (I think) @selyfriday as part of the #postcardsfromafar art swap - such a great piece to have in my office to remind me not to be there :)