Jana
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electrical engineering pro tip: make sure that the capacitor most likely to blow first gets annotated as C4
on today's installment of parts that terrify me:
I don't actually know much about this LED, but it's certainly a very strong, possibly ultra low wavelength UV led. The incredibly clear cover-glass and the fact that the dies are water-cooled give off an eerie vibe.
I’m actually scared of figuring out the output power and wavelength by hooking it up to a lab supply. Anyone who knows what specs this could have? What part no it could be?
Just the other day I discovered that there is a ruby-text extension for Firefox, adding pinyin to Chinese characters. This is actually super helpful for me learning the language! https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/pinyin-annotator/
#chinese
The level of non-professionalism by Adafruit lately is quite impressive. People are fed up with genAI and LLMs being shoved in their faces everywhere, it’s robbing me of so much joy and energy encountering slop on the internet day after day, the impact on the climate is devastating and when a company, a company that is heavily community focussed proudly shows they have been producing slop for years, people are understandably frustrated, appalled, even angry. This is a backlash you as a company will have to either live with, or you could try to better yourselves… you are after all a very community focussed company. Or, as an apparent third option you could absolutely crash out on your professional blog, blaming people criticising you, being embarrassingly childish in the process… well done. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/heres-our-first-gemini-deep-think-llm-assisted-hardware-design/
@ErinRose@chaos.social yea oof, that’s not cool. I also rely on light-mode (at least during the day), such software behaviour is just needlessly anti-accessibility, or rather going out of their way to make sure you actually feel bad..
when I’m not in the mood for computer touching, doing art and even photography, my other big hobby kicks in, plants!! I currently care for about 60 individual plants of various species, lots of Alocasia and Epipremnum.
The latter is pretty common in households and I can see why, a great plant. They are often called Pothos or Efeutute in German, and come in small, bushy pots, sometimes climbing a small coco pole, but usually they are pretty small. These plants of course don’t grow in pots in nature, neither are they usually hanging (as common with potted plants).
In nature they are parasitic climbers, climbing host trees to reach the sunlight above. In doing so they can get massive, like massive massive, with arm thickness sized trunks, leaves of 60cm length and big fenestrations (holes, like monsteras).
Having seen mature, climbing Epipremnums, I set out giving my plants at home a treatment a bit more close to nature, letting them grow to their full size, and … I’m succeeding? Look at these leaves!! So large! About 40cm in length, super luscious and the plant keeps growing. Can’t wait to see how much they will size up this summer!