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As an American traveling, I have become very aware of how Americans sound when traveling…and thus have tried to sound less American whenever traveling.
I don’t miss reading the news
Globally available, decent-to-high-end bathroom fixtures makes a bit of a monoculture when traveling. I can’t help but wonder what it would have been like before such things were available affordably, but I think a good guess is “generally grosser”
Watching my parents interact with technology has come a somewhat anthropological exercise. We have entirely different modes of operation and targeting by external entities. I have no doubt the chasm will be the same for me and my kids.
The nice thing about centralizing all your dev boards and SIM cards and SD cards is they’re all together in the same place so you know where to find things. The less nice thing is when you lose track of that centralized location of all those things…
Found out last night that Vimeo is likely being bought out by private equity (specifically the group that bought and worsened Evernote and Meetup). Well there’s a bunch of migration work I need to do now.
One of those extremely niche books that I’m going to see on OTHER engineers’ shelves and know we’re going to get along…
I told people on episode 707 of The Amp Hour about the ‘small web’ and how I am joining the fray much later than others. Perhaps it’s already dead? But I dunno, I’ve still got things to say
The Amp Hour 707 - Welding with an HDMI Cable | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circuits, and more!
It’s amazing thinking about how different my web browsing experience is thanks to ‘algorithmic steering’. In a positive light, I find content that I might not have otherwise…but wouldn’t the aggregation-focused creators have gotten me there instead?