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A photo of a tall plastic cup of iced mocha sitting on a benchtop.

It's 22˚C and 13% humidity and totally sunny outside, I've done all the laundry, mowed and whippersnipped and fertilised the front and back lawns, cleaned the shower, and now it's time for the first iced mocha of the season. 👌🏻

Posted on 11 September 2022, 14:51

A photo of moussaka in a white ceramic dish with a slice of sourdough next to it.

A photo of galaktoboureko, which is a Greek dessert made of filo pastry and filled with semolina custard. There's a berry compote on it and some vanilla bean ice cream next to it.

Yassssss. Excellent as always.

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Posted on 10 September 2022, 21:50

A perfectly symmetrical photo taken from a train station platform, looking back towards the escalators.

Aww yiss, we're on our way out for dinner with friends at our favourite Greek restaurant.

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Posted on 10 September 2022, 18:36

A photo of a DIY guitar pedalboard. It consists of two horizontal planks of wood screwed into two shallowly-angled pieces on either end. The two horizontal pieces have strips of velcro on them, and there's four pedals attached to it. The new pedal is black with four silver switches on it and a little LCD display in the middle.

So it turns out you can control the Boss RC-5 looper pedal via MIDI instead of needing to lean down awkwardly to adjust the built-in drum machine, so I bought an (Australian-designed) MIDI controller, the Pirate MIDI Bridge4! It's pretty slick, but unfortunately Boss' documentation on how specifically to configure external MIDI devices to control it is a little lacking, so there's a LOT of trial and error going on right now.

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Posted on 9 September 2022, 22:13

A photo of three ESP32 microcontrollers. They're teensy little circuit boards, roughly 5cm in length and 2cm in width, festooned with electronic components, and with two rows of pins coming out of them on one side for plugging things thing.

I'd wanted to order a handful more ESP32 microcontrollers from Adafruit a few months ago, but they were entirely out of stock so I put my email address in to be notified when they were available again. A couple of weeks ago I got an email saying "The Feather HUZZAH32 is back in stock! There are 2997 available."

I... think that might be enough, haha. I ordered three and they arrived today. One of the things I want to do is to rig up a physical button that will turn off the LCD displays that are attached to the Raspberry Pis in the lounge room which display the current temperature inside and out, as well as the time. Even though we run them at a significantly-lower-than-maximum brightness, they're still very bright when we turn all the lights off when we're going to sleep. They automatically turn off at midnight and come on at 8am, but sometimes I want to turn them off earlier, and also occasionally I'm up before 8 in the morning and instead of the temperature and time I'm greeted with black displays.

Should be a fun little project!

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Posted on 6 September 2022, 21:50

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. It's on a gaming board with a bunch of junkyard-looking terrain, and on my side of the board are six green Death Guard Space Marines looking all gross and mutated.

In news that will shock nobody, the only reason I was in the office today was for after-work Kill Team. 😛 Sadly didn't win this time, it was obvious how it was going to turn out by the end of the third round so we called it.

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Posted on 6 September 2022, 19:40