Peter Marheine
@pmarheine.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Systems wrangler. I write software and fight ultimately doomed delaying actions against entropic decay. He/him. 🦘
[bridged from https://digipres.club/@pmarheine on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://digipres.club/@pmarheine on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
I recall reading about PyScript (https://pyscript.net/; runs Python code in script tags in your web page) a while ago and thinking it was neat, but not obviously useful when you have a JavaScript runtime right there (even if I do prefer Python).
This weekend I actually got to use it, since […]
This weekend I actually got to use it, since […]
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November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I recall reading about PyScript (https://pyscript.net/; runs Python code in script tags in your web page) a while ago and thinking it was neat, but not obviously useful when you have a JavaScript runtime right there (even if I do prefer Python).
This weekend I actually got to use it, since […]
This weekend I actually got to use it, since […]
A consumer law success story!
A row of pixels on my slightly-more-than-two-years-old Sony TV failed (such that it always displays a white horizontal line at the same point). I contacted support who responded (as expected) that it needed repair or replacement […]
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A row of pixels on my slightly-more-than-two-years-old Sony TV failed (such that it always displays a white horizontal line at the same point). I contacted support who responded (as expected) that it needed repair or replacement […]
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September 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A consumer law success story!
A row of pixels on my slightly-more-than-two-years-old Sony TV failed (such that it always displays a white horizontal line at the same point). I contacted support who responded (as expected) that it needed repair or replacement […]
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A row of pixels on my slightly-more-than-two-years-old Sony TV failed (such that it always displays a white horizontal line at the same point). I contacted support who responded (as expected) that it needed repair or replacement […]
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For Aussies with NBN internet service, the wholesale offerings have changed to have higher speeds across the board. For plans in the middle of the speed range, you may now be able to get faster service for the same or less money!
I think the cheapest plans […]
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I think the cheapest plans […]
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September 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
For Aussies with NBN internet service, the wholesale offerings have changed to have higher speeds across the board. For plans in the middle of the speed range, you may now be able to get faster service for the same or less money!
I think the cheapest plans […]
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I think the cheapest plans […]
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Thus far I'm mostly pleased with the developer experience on RP2350 with Zephyr! It's very nice to have a ROM bootloader that Just Works, and simply running `west flash -r uf2` to build and flash is convenient.
On the negative side, here we can see erratum […]
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On the negative side, here we can see erratum […]
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July 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Thus far I'm mostly pleased with the developer experience on RP2350 with Zephyr! It's very nice to have a ROM bootloader that Just Works, and simply running `west flash -r uf2` to build and flash is convenient.
On the negative side, here we can see erratum […]
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On the negative side, here we can see erratum […]
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I hadn't realised how laughable Intel's bottom-of-the-barrel Alder Lake Celeron 7305 is: it doesn't turbo so the max clock on any core is 1100 MHz, which means the N100 that has fewer cores and costs less gets about twice the score in most CPU benchmarks.
June 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I hadn't realised how laughable Intel's bottom-of-the-barrel Alder Lake Celeron 7305 is: it doesn't turbo so the max clock on any core is 1100 MHz, which means the N100 that has fewer cores and costs less gets about twice the score in most CPU benchmarks.
I discovered a few weeks ago that outgoing IPv6 connections on one of my machines seemed broken, but connections to it were fine. Annoying.
After stewing for those weeks and eventually finding motivation to investigate, it turns out that was because NixOS enables IPv6 privacy extensions by […]
After stewing for those weeks and eventually finding motivation to investigate, it turns out that was because NixOS enables IPv6 privacy extensions by […]
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June 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I discovered a few weeks ago that outgoing IPv6 connections on one of my machines seemed broken, but connections to it were fine. Annoying.
After stewing for those weeks and eventually finding motivation to investigate, it turns out that was because NixOS enables IPv6 privacy extensions by […]
After stewing for those weeks and eventually finding motivation to investigate, it turns out that was because NixOS enables IPv6 privacy extensions by […]
Maui is very pleased with nibbling the scraps after I made chop for him.
The perspective of this photo is a little confusing; that's an approximately 4-liter bowl.
The perspective of this photo is a little confusing; that's an approximately 4-liter bowl.
May 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Maui is very pleased with nibbling the scraps after I made chop for him.
The perspective of this photo is a little confusing; that's an approximately 4-liter bowl.
The perspective of this photo is a little confusing; that's an approximately 4-liter bowl.
Had the most miserable time today trying to get a Raspberry Pi Zero W to connect to any WiFi. Some networks just can't work because it won't do 5 GHz band, others it would see occasionally on scan but then they'd get lost forever, and somehow it was completely incapable of authenticating with my […]
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May 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Had the most miserable time today trying to get a Raspberry Pi Zero W to connect to any WiFi. Some networks just can't work because it won't do 5 GHz band, others it would see occasionally on scan but then they'd get lost forever, and somehow it was completely incapable of authenticating with my […]
Extra annoyance from the dead UDM (https://digipres.club/@pmarheine/114219746786123433): needed to reset an AP because it was trying to force some clients to a VLAN that doesn't currently exist. In doing so, the reset button straight peeled off the circuit […]
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April 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Extra annoyance from the dead UDM (https://digipres.club/@pmarheine/114219746786123433): needed to reset an AP because it was trying to force some clients to a VLAN that doesn't currently exist. In doing so, the reset button straight peeled off the circuit […]
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Annoyance of the week so far: my Ubiquiti UDM SE went completely dead yesterday, which I only noticed when the network went down and it was unexpectedly powered off. Some troubleshooting later and it seems like the internal power supply is dead, since I can't get any lights or fan noise out of […]
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March 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Annoyance of the week so far: my Ubiquiti UDM SE went completely dead yesterday, which I only noticed when the network went down and it was unexpectedly powered off. Some troubleshooting later and it seems like the internal power supply is dead, since I can't get any lights or fan noise out of […]
Pleased to find today that Coles' shopping carts (or trolleys if you prefer) use Gatekeeper Systems locking wheels, so https://www.begaydocrime.com/ works just fine on them.
Also find it surprising that just playing an audio file through a smartphone speaker generates enough EMF to be picked […]
Also find it surprising that just playing an audio file through a smartphone speaker generates enough EMF to be picked […]
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March 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Pleased to find today that Coles' shopping carts (or trolleys if you prefer) use Gatekeeper Systems locking wheels, so https://www.begaydocrime.com/ works just fine on them.
Also find it surprising that just playing an audio file through a smartphone speaker generates enough EMF to be picked […]
Also find it surprising that just playing an audio file through a smartphone speaker generates enough EMF to be picked […]
Tired: "discourse"
Wired: "flamewar"
Wired: "flamewar"
March 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Tired: "discourse"
Wired: "flamewar"
Wired: "flamewar"
It's been literally years, but I completed this tiny, heavily-greebled Mars InSight lander model.
I have dual excuses: I don't often sit down and say "I want to build that tiny model!" and it's rated as "challenging" difficulty.
Anyway, now I can begin one […]
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I have dual excuses: I don't often sit down and say "I want to build that tiny model!" and it's rated as "challenging" difficulty.
Anyway, now I can begin one […]
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March 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It's been literally years, but I completed this tiny, heavily-greebled Mars InSight lander model.
I have dual excuses: I don't often sit down and say "I want to build that tiny model!" and it's rated as "challenging" difficulty.
Anyway, now I can begin one […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
I have dual excuses: I don't often sit down and say "I want to build that tiny model!" and it's rated as "challenging" difficulty.
Anyway, now I can begin one […]
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File under "diagrams that look like shitposts."
February 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
File under "diagrams that look like shitposts."
My first blog post of 2025! A program inspired by Windows 9x-style retrocomputing, with additional interesting bits of implementation stemming from running on a CPU that's barely out of the early 90s.
It's WEB1999! https://www.taricorp.net/2025/web1999/
It's WEB1999! https://www.taricorp.net/2025/web1999/
WEB1999: the web of 1999 in math class | タリ
I often find that imposed limitations make it easier to create things: it’s
easy to aim for perfection if you can expend as much effort as you like on
something and thus end up with nothing that you’ll ever call good enough to
share. Over on Cemetech in the final months of 2023,1 we held a programming
contest: write a
screensaver, any kind of screensaver. I’m not often one to do any kind of
competitive programming, but as a prompt for a constrained project this was a
good one for me. As a result, I wrote a program I called
WEB1999, that won second
place.
www.taricorp.net
January 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My first blog post of 2025! A program inspired by Windows 9x-style retrocomputing, with additional interesting bits of implementation stemming from running on a CPU that's barely out of the early 90s.
It's WEB1999! https://www.taricorp.net/2025/web1999/
It's WEB1999! https://www.taricorp.net/2025/web1999/
A nice write-up of how fantasy "gold coins" as currency generates completely ahistoric economic systems: https://acoup.blog/2025/01/03/collections-coinage-and-the-tyranny-of-fantasy-gold/
I picked up definite threads back to "Debt: the First 5000 Years," but this also looks at how real people […]
I picked up definite threads back to "Debt: the First 5000 Years," but this also looks at how real people […]
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January 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A nice write-up of how fantasy "gold coins" as currency generates completely ahistoric economic systems: https://acoup.blog/2025/01/03/collections-coinage-and-the-tyranny-of-fantasy-gold/
I picked up definite threads back to "Debt: the First 5000 Years," but this also looks at how real people […]
I picked up definite threads back to "Debt: the First 5000 Years," but this also looks at how real people […]
The extremely humid conditions on Friday seem to have caused some interesting-looking low-flying clouds.
December 8, 2024 at 7:48 AM
The extremely humid conditions on Friday seem to have caused some interesting-looking low-flying clouds.
I only broke three 1/64" end mills today!
December 6, 2024 at 11:19 AM
I only broke three 1/64" end mills today!
Who wore it better?
September 8, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Who wore it better?
Initial reaction to this alternative SQL syntax: "SQL is fine, why do you need to change it?" After reading the first few sections however: pipe syntax seems much easier to read and write!
https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql/
https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql/
August 28, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Initial reaction to this alternative SQL syntax: "SQL is fine, why do you need to change it?" After reading the first few sections however: pipe syntax seems much easier to read and write!
https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql/
https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql/
Reposted by Peter Marheine
Who's a majestic parrot? It's Maui!
August 11, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Who's a majestic parrot? It's Maui!
Yes, more loon content please. https://webtoons.com/en/canvas/false-knees/loonacy/viewer?title_no=79544&episode_no=286
August 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Yes, more loon content please. https://webtoons.com/en/canvas/false-knees/loonacy/viewer?title_no=79544&episode_no=286