Starting the year with the SD card in my phone crapping out, hopefully that’s not a bad omen
Read morePROGRAMMING ADAFRUIT FEATHER LCD IN CIRCUITPYTHON
For anyone else who got an Adafruit ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT Feather over the holidays and wants to program its display from CircuitPython, the following is the incantation needed to get everything set up: import adafruit_st7789 import board import digitalio import displayio # Take control of the display. displayio.release_displays() # Turn on the display’s backlight. display_backlight = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.TFT_BACKLIGHT) display_backlight.direction = digitalio.Direction.OUTPUT display_backlight.value = True # Set up a driver object for the display.
Read moreHow to know it’s nearly winter: Our short hair cat is insisting on having a lap to stay warm on at all times
Read moreWell alright then, I guess the iCloud Drive synching on Windows can’t handle too many changes at once without bogging down and missing some of them. Hopefully I didn’t accidentally destroy or corrupt anything…
Read more13 years together and still going!
Read moreIt is really hard to tell what window has focus in Windows 11, especially with two monitors 😅
Read moreStarting to see the first signs of fall color!
Read moreUgh. Mail on macOS didn’t send an important email a couple of days ago, no idea why not. Very frustrating
Read moreOne surprise extra medical later, I think I have done all the prerequisites to be hired by our local transit authority as a subway train operator… 🤞🏼🚇
Read moreWhoops I did not mean to use the proverbial cattle prod to get myself through today 😅
Read moreIt’s a run out of TP kind of Friday
Read moreWhy does cream cheese come in a bag inside of a box? It’s truly bizarre packaging if you compare it to say sour cream
Read moreLooking at current trends, laptops as a category are probably going to lose headphone jacks in the next few years. It feels cheap to take it away but I also can’t remember the last time I plugged in headphones to my laptop
Read moreI’m planning what I am going to bring on a trip, and it’s rather annoying that my phone is the only device I’ll have to bring a specialized charging cable for 🙃
Read moreUp-to-date Chrome OS running on a Mac Pro from 2008 is pretty wild to see
Read moreEdge has to hold some sort of record for having the most stuff on screen when you open a new browser window..
Read moreOne of the battery modules attached to our house’s solar panels hasn’t been working right for months, but it figures the second a technician is out here, it doesn’t show the issue anymore 🙄
Read moreIt’s my second week of being between jobs and I’m having a heck of a time letting of the feeling I have to be doing something
Read moreFour days away and the cats are both purring and nipping at my hands. Mixed emotions at their purest
Read moreHuzzah we managed to win our first kickball match last night, and it was even a shut out!
Read moreLast night was a redo of our opening night for kickball, it went much smoother compared to last week. Our team lost, but I got 2 runs in which felt pretty good!
Read moreThis lentil based taco recipe was pretty good. A little too much tomato flavor if you add salsa, but otherwise quite tasty with spring onion, avocado, and queso fresco
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