John Medland
@serenial.io
He/Him. Builds tools for test, measurement and scientific discovery. Cookie lover and certified slinger of LabVIEW code.
I realize I never dropped back in on my "introduction posts" to say that the Open Source toolkit that provides a native webcam driver for LabVIEW and makes building Augmented Reality applications about 9000 lines of C++ easier is released and available here!
www.vipm.io/package/sere...
www.vipm.io/package/sere...
G Augmented-Reality Toolkit for LabVIEW - Download - VIPM by JKI
A Toolkit to create webcam-based Augmented-Reality Applications with LabVIEW
www.vipm.io
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I realize I never dropped back in on my "introduction posts" to say that the Open Source toolkit that provides a native webcam driver for LabVIEW and makes building Augmented Reality applications about 9000 lines of C++ easier is released and available here!
www.vipm.io/package/sere...
www.vipm.io/package/sere...
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We need a new job. We cannot do the mental gymnastics to stay in one that is antithetical to the existence of our friends, loved ones, wife and ourself any longer. Anyone know of a trans positive place looking for a LabVIEW architect and amazing test engineer? Maybe in state bordering Canada?
October 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We need a new job. We cannot do the mental gymnastics to stay in one that is antithetical to the existence of our friends, loved ones, wife and ourself any longer. Anyone know of a trans positive place looking for a LabVIEW architect and amazing test engineer? Maybe in state bordering Canada?
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It would be really great if more people in the tech industry spoke up about what these technologies are doing to our planet. It was already in crisis before everyone got in a race to build data centers for AI.
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It would be really great if more people in the tech industry spoke up about what these technologies are doing to our planet. It was already in crisis before everyone got in a race to build data centers for AI.
Thanks @olivierjourdan.bsky.social for sharing.
Do come Join the LabVIEW Discord (if you haven't already) and submit your answer on the poll
discord.gg/XAuUj2DbMN
Do come Join the LabVIEW Discord (if you haven't already) and submit your answer on the poll
discord.gg/XAuUj2DbMN
May 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thanks @olivierjourdan.bsky.social for sharing.
Do come Join the LabVIEW Discord (if you haven't already) and submit your answer on the poll
discord.gg/XAuUj2DbMN
Do come Join the LabVIEW Discord (if you haven't already) and submit your answer on the poll
discord.gg/XAuUj2DbMN
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Carry on using the right toilets. And remind your friends and family voting in the local elections next week that this is Labour's policy and Labour extended the term of the bigot running the EHRC.
April 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Carry on using the right toilets. And remind your friends and family voting in the local elections next week that this is Labour's policy and Labour extended the term of the bigot running the EHRC.
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🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”
This was their response:
This was their response:
April 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”
This was their response:
This was their response:
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valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x
April 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x
This episode is well worth a listen if you are in the UK or even Europe more broadly.
Pinning hopes of growth on extractive US companies does nothing to alleviate the pain folks experience everyday, handing future elections to the far right with their simple solutions to complex problems.
Pinning hopes of growth on extractive US companies does nothing to alleviate the pain folks experience everyday, handing future elections to the far right with their simple solutions to complex problems.
The UK is embracing AI at any cost as it’s desperate to increase economic growth. But is that a good strategy?
This week @meadwaj.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss what’s happening in the UK and the consequences of allowing US tech to dominate.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/266_...
This week @meadwaj.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss what’s happening in the UK and the consequences of allowing US tech to dominate.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/266_...
March 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This episode is well worth a listen if you are in the UK or even Europe more broadly.
Pinning hopes of growth on extractive US companies does nothing to alleviate the pain folks experience everyday, handing future elections to the far right with their simple solutions to complex problems.
Pinning hopes of growth on extractive US companies does nothing to alleviate the pain folks experience everyday, handing future elections to the far right with their simple solutions to complex problems.
The replies to this, especially the photo evidence, are rad.
So cool to see a bunch of folks sharing their love for a FOSS project.
So cool to see a bunch of folks sharing their love for a FOSS project.
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The replies to this, especially the photo evidence, are rad.
So cool to see a bunch of folks sharing their love for a FOSS project.
So cool to see a bunch of folks sharing their love for a FOSS project.
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absolutely incredible attack vector
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 AM
absolutely incredible attack vector
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Call for presentations are open for GDevConANZ #2
Are you passionate about test & measurement, data processing, or simply know something fascinating about LabVIEW that you'd like to share?
Submit a topic you'd like to present here:
gdevconanz.org.au/call-for-pre...
Are you passionate about test & measurement, data processing, or simply know something fascinating about LabVIEW that you'd like to share?
Submit a topic you'd like to present here:
gdevconanz.org.au/call-for-pre...
Call for Presentations - GDevConANZ Inc
Are you excited to share your ideas with your community at the next GDevCon ANZ? Let us know what you’d like to present by filling in this form so we can review it for inclusion. The topic should be s...
gdevconanz.org.au
November 27, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Call for presentations are open for GDevConANZ #2
Are you passionate about test & measurement, data processing, or simply know something fascinating about LabVIEW that you'd like to share?
Submit a topic you'd like to present here:
gdevconanz.org.au/call-for-pre...
Are you passionate about test & measurement, data processing, or simply know something fascinating about LabVIEW that you'd like to share?
Submit a topic you'd like to present here:
gdevconanz.org.au/call-for-pre...
Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/HK4gywE
November 27, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/HK4gywE
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Wondering how to use Bluesky feeds, blocklists, and filters? Are you worried that Bluesky will inevitably turn evil? Are you wondering what the Alf thing is about, but are too afraid to ask?
I try to answer your questions here:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bl...
I try to answer your questions here:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bl...
The Great Bluesky Migration: I Answer (Some) Of Your Questions
For the last year and a half, us Bluesky users have frequently reminded one another that we are merely posters on a niche microblogging website.
It's intended as a warning about hubris. A protective ...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
November 21, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Wondering how to use Bluesky feeds, blocklists, and filters? Are you worried that Bluesky will inevitably turn evil? Are you wondering what the Alf thing is about, but are too afraid to ask?
I try to answer your questions here:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bl...
I try to answer your questions here:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bl...
GDEVCon (The Independent Graphical Developers Conference) is coming to Brighton in September 2025.
Tickets aren't even available yet but I am already excited (and not just at the chance to explain to anyone who will listen that pebbles by the sea don't count as a beach).
mailchi.mp/gdevcon/g6la...
Tickets aren't even available yet but I am already excited (and not just at the chance to explain to anyone who will listen that pebbles by the sea don't count as a beach).
mailchi.mp/gdevcon/g6la...
GDevCon#6 returns to the UK in September 2025!
mailchi.mp
November 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
GDEVCon (The Independent Graphical Developers Conference) is coming to Brighton in September 2025.
Tickets aren't even available yet but I am already excited (and not just at the chance to explain to anyone who will listen that pebbles by the sea don't count as a beach).
mailchi.mp/gdevcon/g6la...
Tickets aren't even available yet but I am already excited (and not just at the chance to explain to anyone who will listen that pebbles by the sea don't count as a beach).
mailchi.mp/gdevcon/g6la...
Hurray - finally a use for the joke domains that one accumulates in a life where alcohol and easy domain registration exist.
Although I have decided to be boring for the time being.
bsky.social/about/blog/4...
Although I have decided to be boring for the time being.
bsky.social/about/blog/4...
How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Hurray - finally a use for the joke domains that one accumulates in a life where alcohol and easy domain registration exist.
Although I have decided to be boring for the time being.
bsky.social/about/blog/4...
Although I have decided to be boring for the time being.
bsky.social/about/blog/4...
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🧵 I worked for the #labview Community Training Initiative #LVCTI during the last few days…
I set up a Proof of Concept multilingual website to host the documentation.
You can glance at it here 👉 labviewcommunitytraining.github.io/cti-document...
I set up a Proof of Concept multilingual website to host the documentation.
You can glance at it here 👉 labviewcommunitytraining.github.io/cti-document...
Set-up Instructions :: CTI documentation
labviewcommunitytraining.github.io
November 13, 2024 at 1:46 PM
🧵 I worked for the #labview Community Training Initiative #LVCTI during the last few days…
I set up a Proof of Concept multilingual website to host the documentation.
You can glance at it here 👉 labviewcommunitytraining.github.io/cti-document...
I set up a Proof of Concept multilingual website to host the documentation.
You can glance at it here 👉 labviewcommunitytraining.github.io/cti-document...