Chris Johnson

Anyone going to Web Day Out tomorrow?

Thanks. OK is good enough for me. I'd only be using it for small things.

Are those mini battery powered chainsaws actually any good?

I have a laurel that needs cutting back a little every year and they seem perfect for that.

Life goals.

The point where every project dies. 😭

codepen.io/beta

I think... *touch wood* I have finished the software for my MIDI project.

* No more weird USB packet issues.
* Rock solid timing for both following a clock and leading a clock.

Just one remaining thing to check off my list, and on to building the case and wiring things.

Nice, what are you building?

Screenshot of a Google review. "Okay, I'll add that in for you, so the overall tone feels natural and like a Google Review:"

OK, but *how* can you tell if something is AI generated?

Fixed one bug, introduced many more. 🤦

At this point I have various branches where one feature works perfectly and the others don't. I just need to combine all the bits that work. 😂

It looks like a t-shirt cannon!

They hacked web fonts? YouTube video by Prismic

This week on The Callback:
- Cloudflare clones Next.js out of spite
- Anthropic's plunder gets plundered
- Chrome gets its fonts hacked
- And more!

Watch and laugh along on YouTube:
youtu.be/R34ifge0v-U

A Bit on the [geolocation] Element YouTube video by CodePen

A few min on <geolocation> in HTML/CSS/JS.

1. I like how explicit it is for users & how it helps "recover" from incorrect permissions.
2. It's *super interesting* how it checks the contrast accessibility and just makes the button not work if you dink it up.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffX...

So it turns out if you send a lot of MIDI data at once some receiving devices have a bit of a wobble and drop everything they can't process.

Learning a lot and cursing in equal measure.

Back to debugging MIDI hardware USB packets. 😭

My first science video in 3 years! YouTube video by Physics Girl

New Physics Girl Video! Let's GOOOO!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...

I think I've made it! I've had my first AI generated PR on one of my public repositories.

Thinky Dailies season 2 starts now! The image depicts wide angle view of a large hall with stone walls. There are shields and emblems on the walls and a few thinky characters wandering around. thinkygames.com/dailies

🎉 Season 2 of Thinky Dailies starts now!

Join our daily adventure of bite-sized puzzles as our hero learns more about the mysterious Solvers. Catch up on Season 1 any time!

thinkygames.com/dail...

Vim is the code editor you'll use for the rest of your life.

I've been using the Adalogger RP2040 which already has an SD card slot. I hadn't realised you could get the footprint even smaller with a stacked QT Py.

Ah nice. I see you went with C++ for it, I tried CircuitPython for MIDI at first but kept running into hurdles when I wanted to do anything more complicated.

What's the NOISE BOX 2000? 👀

These seem like jobs to me. 😂

What personal projects is everyone working on at the moment?

It's been an interesting ride. Starting with Python then switching to C++ very quickly after I hit a ceiling with what's possible with Python.

Every tick out from the clock on the OP1 moves my device forward one tick too.

I've made my own midi device from scratch. I've been trying to work out how to sync it to the clock on the OP1.

My first attempt was to work out the BPM from the clock and match it, but the playback kept drifting.

This attempt I used the clock to literally drive the midi device like a crank.

Finally, I've got midi clock sync perfect both IN and OUT.

I'm on holiday then for the April one this year.