Mo @mo@nitech.online

I see we’re at the point where third-party Twitter clients are getting “sure can’t you just…” advice.

Basically can’t wait to buy all of the new Mastodon clients. I’ve long used Twitterrific, and I hope it comes to Mastodon in some form, but I’ll definitely buy a bunch of them to give them a proper kick of the tyres and to say thanks to the developers for taking the risk on this platform.

Does it crash? #mammoth

The Mourne Mountains as seen from Slieve Croob

I’m not arrogant enough to turn this into a “they should make it easier to tell that a filter is active. This is a UX issue”. This was all me!

Nevermind! Apparently I had a filter for media posts only on my home timeline. That’s a relief!

And this post isn’t showing in my timeline. Though it does if I view my own posts. I also got a reply to an earlier post, but am not seeing anything in the mentions view. Might need to use Metatext or Mammoth for a while.

Anyone else notice #Ivory missing posts from their timeline? Noticed this evening that one of my own posts (made through Ivory) wasn’t visible. Had a look in Metatext and on my instance web app, and could see it in both. Then noticed other posts from my timeline that weren’t showing in Ivory either. That said, they were there if I went to the federated timeline in Ivory.

Has it always been this hard to get a Scales by Intellijel, or is it a recent shortage? Seems like nearly every Intellijel module is out of stock these days too. #Eurorack

#Maths #Eurorack

Just had an interesting thought about using a Z80 processor to make some sort of Eurorack module.

Holy shit. Ballycastle Harbour is absolutely freezing today.

2022 is the year we bought a house in Ballycastle and get to enjoy views like this whenever we want. I really can’t complain.

I will never not bawl my eyes out when hearing Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová perform Falling Slowly. It’s like raw emotion in a song.

The resistor was fine, but after checking the schematic I was able to work my way back from the non-functioning output/LED to the AND gate where it seems like I didn’t do a great soldering job. A quick touch up on 3 pins and everything is working perfectly now.

Have a Korg SQ-64 arriving in a couple of days. I have enjoyed using the SQ-1 with my #Eurorack gear but found the tiny little pots for the pitch voltage to be too fiddly for an optimal experience. I have a KeyStep Pro that is probably a better sequencer than the SQ-64 overall, but the keyboard gets me too tempted to think in terms of poly synths and lose the modular focus.

Tested it live in production (ie threw it into the rack rather than testing components/traces) and it all seems good except for the “1+2 4+7” jack. No LED or signal even if I’ve manually set all bits on the Turing Machine to on. Need to check the resistor I think.

Still not tested anything yet, but I’ll grab the schematic tomorrow and figure out the best way to test the components.

Feel like I need a double pronged soldering iron tip that I can apply to a blob on both pads at once so that I can put the component down a bit more symmetrically.

First foray into SMD components this evening. I still haven’t quite figured out my preferred technique. Currently using flux pen to prep the pads, then stick a solder blob on one pad and lightly tin the other pad. I then get the component (all resistors in this case) in the tweezers and heat the solder blob so that the component can be plopped into it. Heat still applied I push the other end of the component down onto the tinned pad then add a bit more solder to improve the joint.