Geoffrey Hunter

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

I have a magic trick for you:

1. Take your age.
2. Multiply it by i.
3. Multiply it by i again.
4. Multiply it by i again.
5. Multiply it by i again.

That's your age!

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

I finished a new track over the holiday break called Bird Song. Since my vocal abilities are near absolute zero, bird sounds make a great replacement (bonus: they don't demand royalties).
Soundcloud: https://t.co/Wk5KZQ3WEr

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

Ok so Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is pretty much magic (and is my new favourite comms bus). Just a single twisted pair cable can provide simultaneous, bidirectional data transfer at 10 Mbps for 1km and up to 50W of power.

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

I've been busy on the weekend, NinjaTerm v4.20.0 is out! New features include:
* Added timestamps to incoming data, including custom formats.
* Added a copy icon to copy all terminal text to the system clipboard.
* Added the ability to set default colours

https://t.co/HzRs1NIyYx

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

New track out!

https://t.co/a7ck2imlHq

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

After messing around with music for many years I finally got my A in G and finished a song, and I've released it on Spotify! (and iTunes, YouTube Music, e.t.c.).
Take a listen! Hopefully more to follow.

https://t.co/7wWDESMNsD

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

I was messing around with Jenga blocks the other day and noticed this interesting pattern! Create a vertical stack of blocks and then starting at the top, slide each one over as far to one side as it can go before it tips. You get what looks like an exponential decay.

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

Sometimes you come across funny alternative "what does that mean?" acronym definitions for engineering things. My favourites are:

IDC: The "It Did not Connect" connector.
MELF: "Most End up Lying on Floor". A cylindrical component package used for diodes.

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

Bugging - The first phase of software programming before the debugging phase begins.

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

When mentally timing Olivia in a running race around the house I realized that I'd been committing an off-by-one error for my entire life. You must start from 0 when you say "Go", not 1!

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

Memfault, a company which provides cloud-based monitoring/analytics for smart electronic devices noticed a considerable uptick in microcontroller resets during the days which the May solar storm (remember those beautiful Auroras?) was the highest.

https://t.co/KneVM6qR4F

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

@Memfault @6a6763 @wittyelk @mferraro89 @McuOnEclipse @HaskRay @bitluni @ricardoquesada @hirrolot @fast_code_r_us @voidstarsec Glad you liked NinjaCalc! I saw a spike in the number of visitors to the app around Jun 7th, now I know why :-D

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

While Caitlin has been asleep on my chest I've been able to add some features to NinjaTerm! Some feature requests by other people have been completed:
1) Add "quick port settings" next to the terminal so you can quickly change settings
2) Sending break signals at the end of hex

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

Added profile support to NinjaTerm! Some people requested that it would be nice to quickly save/load serial port configurations.
https://t.co/EF02DKMwxr

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

NinjaTerm v4.13.0 released! I've added copy/paste support of terminal text with Ctrl-Shift-C/V.

https://t.co/HzRs1NI18Z

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

If GitHub Copilot is trained on existing data, why would it suggest the use of the literal value for e rather than the provided constant? Surely none of the code it's trained on does this?

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

@prince_chrismc Thanks for the link....I just noticed that the table formatting is now broken, and the Disqus comment section looks broken also (I've done some CSS changes lately modifying the width of content and adding dark mode). Oppps! Imma have to go fix these.

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

Scrolling bug in NinjaTerm finally fixed! It was a tricky one to fix, one some computers (of course...not the one I do all my testing on) a "ghost" onScroll event would be fired from the "react-window" library I use even though the user did no such thing.

https://t.co/HzRs1NIyYx

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

We managed to ban plastic bags from supermarkets, but now someone decided it would be a good idea to package apples like tennis balls (seen in New World)? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Geoffrey Hunter @gbmhunter]

A page about triangles! Covers the basic trigonometric ratios and the Law of Sines/Cosines. High-school maths that's useful again and again in engineering.

https://t.co/cGKlJbEIpV