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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, so let me use that day to tell the world that I'm trans. I haven't exactly been hiding it but didn't explicitly make a post about it yet.
Anyway, pronouns she/her, and using Maaike as a name but Ayke is also fine.
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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, so let me use that day to tell the world that I'm trans. I haven't exactly been hiding it but didn't explicitly make a post about it yet.
Anyway, pronouns she/her, and using Maaike as a name but Ayke is also fine.
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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, so let me use that day to tell the world that I'm trans. I haven't exactly been hiding it but didn't explicitly make a post about it yet.
Anyway, pronouns she/her, and using Maaike as a name but Ayke is also fine.
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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, so let me use that day to tell the world that I'm trans. I haven't exactly been hiding it but didn't explicitly make a post about it yet.
Anyway, pronouns she/her, and using Maaike as a name but Ayke is also fine.
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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, so let me use that day to tell the world that I'm trans. I haven't exactly been hiding it but didn't explicitly make a post about it yet.
Anyway, pronouns she/her, and using Maaike as a name but Ayke is also fine.
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And now a followup on how to actually update a row of LEDs efficiently, using bitplanes:
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Charlieplexing LEDs is actually really neat, if you understand how it works. It's basically just a LED matrix where you use the same pins on both sides of the matrix. I've written about it in my latest blog post:
https://aykevl.nl/2026/01/charlieplexing/Charlieplexing is what allows my 36-LED earrings to have so many LEDs - I would have needed a bigger microcontroller without Charlieplexing.
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Charlieplexing LEDs is actually really neat, if you understand how it works. It's basically just a LED matrix where you use the same pins on both sides of the matrix. I've written about it in my latest blog post:
https://aykevl.nl/2026/01/charlieplexing/Charlieplexing is what allows my 36-LED earrings to have so many LEDs - I would have needed a bigger microcontroller without Charlieplexing.
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Charlieplexing LEDs is actually really neat, if you understand how it works. It's basically just a LED matrix where you use the same pins on both sides of the matrix. I've written about it in my latest blog post:
https://aykevl.nl/2026/01/charlieplexing/Charlieplexing is what allows my 36-LED earrings to have so many LEDs - I would have needed a bigger microcontroller without Charlieplexing.
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Charlieplexing LEDs is actually really neat, if you understand how it works. It's basically just a LED matrix where you use the same pins on both sides of the matrix. I've written about it in my latest blog post:
https://aykevl.nl/2026/01/charlieplexing/Charlieplexing is what allows my 36-LED earrings to have so many LEDs - I would have needed a bigger microcontroller without Charlieplexing.
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Charlieplexing LEDs is actually really neat, if you understand how it works. It's basically just a LED matrix where you use the same pins on both sides of the matrix. I've written about it in my latest blog post:
https://aykevl.nl/2026/01/charlieplexing/Charlieplexing is what allows my 36-LED earrings to have so many LEDs - I would have needed a bigger microcontroller without Charlieplexing.
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Did my #GopherConEU talk on threading/multicore support in #TinyGo yesterday!
The video should be available in a month or so, but if you want to take a sneak peek at the slides you can do so here:
https://aykevl.nl/talks/2025-06-17-gopherconeu/ -
I wrote a blog post about how to efficiently render polygons on slow microcontrollers while still looking reasonably nice!
It contains an intuitive explanation (with lots of images!) how it works, and an explanation of the algorithm itself in pseudocode.
https://aykevl.nl/2024/02/tinygl-polygon/
You can see the result below, which is an analog clock that's part of my smartwatch project.
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And now my wonderful collaborator @ayke with "Implementing Parallelism: How We Added Threading and Multicore Support in TinyGo" here at @gopherconeu
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was ein toller song zum tee trinken an diesem sonntag morgen.
https://ethiopiquesseries.bandcamp.com/track/aykedashem-lebe
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was ein toller song zum tee trinken an diesem sonntag morgen.
https://ethiopiquesseries.bandcamp.com/track/aykedashem-lebe
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Avrupa Uzay Ajansı ve Kore Havacılık ve Uzay İdaresi, uzayda dev bir işbirliğine imza attı! Ay keşifleri ve yer istasyonları için ortak çalışma kararı alındı. Uzayda yeni ufuklar açılıyor! 🚀
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Smartwatch firmware... in Go? On TinyGo, small displays, and building a delightful developer experience - Talk at #FOSDEM24 conference by Ayke van Laethem @ayke #Video https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2562-smartwatch-firmware-in-go-on-tinygo-small-displays-and-building-a-delightful-developer-experience/
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And we have a little surprise, #gopherBadge is now available at the @TinyGo 's playground as a emulated device!! Thanks to the work of @ayke 🎉
>>> https://play.tinygo.org <<<
I now need to include it in the blockly/badge's playground too 😬
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For the next batch of earrings, I plan on adding a bunch more pride flags to the earrings. Any suggestions? I already have the rainbow flag and the trans flag.
Note that because these are LEDs, the colors black and gray are difficult to represent so for example the ace flag sadly won't work well.
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LED earrings are back in stock! It took a bit longer than expected due to Lunar New Year, but I finally received the PCBs today.
https://lectronz.com/products/erring-ring-rgb36
Because I'm doing this as a company now, there are a few changes:
* VAT is charged in the EU.
* Shipping costs are much lower.
* More payment methods are accepted, including a few local ones.
* Shipping to the US got re-enabled, with added tariff and handling fees paid during checkout. -
My earrings are back in stock! Just need to put them together. You may have seen them at #39C3, but I quickly ran out there.
You can buy a pair in person at #FOSDEM (no shipping!), or order them online:
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Working on something 👀
(Yes this is still all written in #TinyGo, with some assembly for the bitbanging).
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...and now finally on sale! I'm low on stock (I ran out of some components) but more is on the way!
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PSA: don't require people to distinguish between red/yellow/green in status LEDs etc. Especially if there is no other way to distinguish status (position of LED, flashing pattern, etc). Red-green color blindness is incredibly common (~5% or so of people), much more common than other kinds of color blindness.
I'm not colorblind so can't give specific recommendations, but it seems that green/blue or red/blue are better options if you have to differentiate by color. While there are people who have trouble differentiating between those colors, it's much rarer than red-green color blindness.
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PSA: don't require people to distinguish between red/yellow/green in status LEDs etc. Especially if there is no other way to distinguish status (position of LED, flashing pattern, etc). Red-green color blindness is incredibly common (~5% or so of people), much more common than other kinds of color blindness.
I'm not colorblind so can't give specific recommendations, but it seems that green/blue or red/blue are better options if you have to differentiate by color. While there are people who have trouble differentiating between those colors, it's much rarer than red-green color blindness.
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PSA: don't require people to distinguish between red/yellow/green in status LEDs etc. Especially if there is no other way to distinguish status (position of LED, flashing pattern, etc). Red-green color blindness is incredibly common (~5% or so of people), much more common than other kinds of color blindness.
I'm not colorblind so can't give specific recommendations, but it seems that green/blue or red/blue are better options if you have to differentiate by color. While there are people who have trouble differentiating between those colors, it's much rarer than red-green color blindness.
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PSA: don't require people to distinguish between red/yellow/green in status LEDs etc. Especially if there is no other way to distinguish status (position of LED, flashing pattern, etc). Red-green color blindness is incredibly common (~5% or so of people), much more common than other kinds of color blindness.
I'm not colorblind so can't give specific recommendations, but it seems that green/blue or red/blue are better options if you have to differentiate by color. While there are people who have trouble differentiating between those colors, it's much rarer than red-green color blindness.
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PSA: don't require people to distinguish between red/yellow/green in status LEDs etc. Especially if there is no other way to distinguish status (position of LED, flashing pattern, etc). Red-green color blindness is incredibly common (~5% or so of people), much more common than other kinds of color blindness.
I'm not colorblind so can't give specific recommendations, but it seems that green/blue or red/blue are better options if you have to differentiate by color. While there are people who have trouble differentiating between those colors, it's much rarer than red-green color blindness.
