emily, emitter of spooky noise / is on Nostr

I make electronics go beep boop and tools go spinny. Also, I pet cats sometimes.

Follow requests require approval because bots and asshats; if you have literally anything to convince me you're neither of those things I will probably accept.

pronouns: she/they
regular noun: Emily
url: https://uni.horse/

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2024-07-02 22:29:39

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I have known for several years now what toastmasters is, but I cannot shake the instinct I honed over the many years before that telling me that it is a gathering of toasted bread enthusiasts

2024-06-30 03:05:23

I made a dumb thing because I got inspired: https://onecheckbox.com/
(inspired by https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/)

2024-06-20 20:59:34

just deleted my protonmail account, after accidentally leaving it idle for an entire year after switching off of it and having it autorenew and charge me again
I am so good at executive function
(edit: this isn't a callout post or anything, I am not aware of any protonmail drama which would justify calling for a mass exodus now or a year ago, they were just no longer a good value for me specifically)
(I hate that Internet Discourse is such that I feel like I need to add this)

2024-06-20 01:53:08

I am so confused, I have a CAD model saying this stuff should not fit in this space but I am holding the physical objects and they clearly fit
*continues frantically measuring random dimensions trying to find the one that's wrong*

2024-05-06 04:00:14

this microcontroller has 36KB RAM... plus four bytes slapped in the middle of the CRC peripheral's address space for some reason
https://sparkly.uni.horse/system/media_attachments/files/112/392/135/002/816/469/original/946a202cdc68cb0a.png

2024-04-12 02:26:50

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dammit I'm going to have to make the Tangara of Lawnmowers, amn't I

2024-04-12 01:55:37

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sentences I have found in ebay item listings:
> Get ready to have a perfectly manicured lawn without mentioning its condition in your item description.

2024-04-12 01:40:25

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things robot lawnmower reviewers care about:
- did the reviewer like the app
- making stripes on your lawn
- avoiding children
things I care about:
- please do not make me use an app
- making the grass shorter
- scaring children away
happy to mod the last one in myself by drawing a scary face on it, if they give me an appropriately large surface to do so on

2024-04-12 00:37:56

it's time for my annual hardware review, in which I iterate through all the categories of devices I really want to give people money for, and see if anyone has made one yet that fulfills my fairly short requirements lists:
- non-Android non-iOS smartphone that can be bought with the expectation of using it as a handheld communication device and not an OS beta testing device
- non-cloud robot lawnmower that can handle a nontrivially-sized, US-typical lawn, and is not comically expensive
- stretch goal (I don't actively want them for any particular reason but I want them to exist and would play with one given the chance): AR/VR devices that are just displays and input devices and not a whole Ecosystem
you may notice I use "non" and "not" a lot in these descriptions. this is because my technology requirements really are largely gathered by looking at things and going "ugh, not that"