@lexicontext.bsky.social are you a bot?

An XTEINK X4 ebook reader with the Bhagavad Gita As It Is cover showing. There is a ruler for scale showing it's only about 11cm tall.

Look at this delightful pocket sized e-reader, it's about as big as a small calculator. Flashed it with the Crosspoint Reader firmware, patched with Sanskrit diacritics support.

www.xteink.com/products/xte...

An image of two BMX bikers mid-air, shot from below. The word RAD floats in the foreground, in a red spray painted font.

Rad

It's really sad that this essential public good is treated like a private business and forced to fund itself. USPS is good for small business and good for America, it should be subsidized with taxes!

A screenshot of an interaction with an electronic bulletin board system

The BBS is back! I set up a #meshtastic node with a BBS system, much like the classic electronic bulletin board systems of the 1980s. Instead of dialup you access it with a tiny mesh radio!

If you want to try it send a Meshtastic DM to node !8488880c

New episode! Sean Carolan ( @sean.carolan.io ) joins the show and shares how he built a Pac-Man clone in CircuitPython in just one day with an assist from Claude. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts or visit www.circuitpythonshow.com/@circuitpyth...

Then your plan A is better. Get a small Hetzner VPS and claim your public IP.

Having an IP that stays put for a while is helpful. Mine only seems to rotate during long power outages.

Mine's in a container, using nginx proxy manager for the SSL certs.

I thought you ran your own PDS?

The animation is smooth!

OpenClaw is a bit like the v1 Roomba. It's terribly inefficient, but requires no human assistance. Let it run and it'll eventually finish the job.

These AI agents are incredible at technical grunt work. Writing tests, combing through PDF files, running electronics through the QA gauntlet.

#rpg and #gaming folks I need a few more beta testers for my Android RPG dice rolling app. The app is free and there are no ads. If you're interested shoot me a DM and I can email you the invite link!

#tabletop #gaming #rpg #dice #android #app

The cringe factor on LinkedIn is high. The algorithm seems to reinforce that preachy style of post. It's the text version of Christian evangelical sermons but for business.

A green terminal window containing a text adventure game called Neon Shadows

Neon Shadows - a short cyberpunk noir text adventure. You can play right in your browser! Also included: Zork I, the classic interactive fiction dungeon crawler.

#retrogaming #interactivefiction #cyberpunk #noir

scarolan.github.io/shellys-codex/

This was a fun little project where I used games to teach Claude Code to work completely autonomously. I play the game, put my feedback in a github issue, and walk away. 10-15 minutes later I get a ping on my phone showing the issues were fixed. It's kind of amazing and scary how good Claude Code is

GitHub - scarolan/shellys-arcade: Terminal games and interactive fiction built by Shelly (AI agent) + Claude Code Terminal games and interactive fiction built by Shelly (AI agent) + Claude Code - scarolan/shellys-arcade

13 games you can play in your terminal. All you need is Python. There's also a short cyberpunk noir interactive fiction game called "Neon Shadows". 👨🏼‍🎤🤖💃🏻🍸

github.com/scarolan/she...

Sean wearing a balaclava, with a mortal kombat themed background

Today the temperatures are...sub-zero 🥶

A shiba inu in boots and a jacket surrounded by snow

The fellowship of the ring hike along a snowy ridge

TFW your dog will only poop on grass and its 5 degrees out #shibainu

A Grafana dashboard showing a 21.3 degree F temperature.

A raised bed garden covered in 20 inches of snow.

The snowstorm from January 25th completely entombed these raised beds creating little igloos. The outside temperature is 3°F, but inside the raised bed it's a cozy 21.3°F (-6°C). This year's experimental winter greens include lettuce and arugula and herbs like catnip, Italian parsley, and oregano.

はい、それは数年間私の机の引き出しに入っていました。そして今、新たな命が吹き込まれました。

CircuitPython - CoreS3 SE ESP32S3 IoT Download CoreS3 SE is a streamlined version of the third-generation M5Stack Core series. Powered by the ESP32-S3, it features a dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor running at 240MHz with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetoot...

Got my first board approved for @circuitpython.org:
circuitpython.org/board/m5stac...

The process was easy and the automated test gates let me know exactly what I needed to fix before approval.

Everything works but the SD card which needs some upstream fixes before it can be functional.

An M5stack Core 2 AWS edition running a self diagnostic

Claude Code writes the code and flashes the device, and it can even read logs and diagnostic data from the serial port!

No IDE required. 🤯

Retro screensavers on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller. This is an m5stack CoreS3 SE using the most excellent LovyanGFX SPI LCD graphics library for sprites and animations.

github.com/scarolan/cor...

The Shiba Inu stands like the red wolf in the north.

"You know nothing, Sean Snow!"

#shibainu #winter #houseshibe

A Shiba Inu wearing boots and a sweatshirt while standing in the snow

Shibe In Boots 🐕🥾

When temps are in the single digits Mikan wears his booties

Sure, that sounds fun!

Mikan the Shiba Inu loves fresh snow. 🐕☃️🌨️

#shibainu #snow #dog

A humorous 3-panel meme image with a student frog and a guru frog. The student frog asks "O Master what is the secret to enlightenment" and guru frog replies "Don't worry, be hoppy."

Stay warm everybody! ❄️🌨️

A map of the United States showing freezing temperators as far south as Texas.

What causes these blobs of cold to reach so far south? The arctic polar vortex is normally like a fast-spinning top. As the earth warms up the top starts to get wobbly.

Some names for the blob include:

Arctic Outbreak
Sudden Stratospheric Warming
Bomb Cyclone
Daughter Vortices