Benjamin Pollack

I love how we're all pretending the modern Terminal with its Kitty graphics protocol and OSC8 and stuff isn't some papier-mâché coating over the fact that we never got DCOM or an equivalent working sanely. Or RDS, even, for that matter

Interesting thing about slowly getting enough free time that I'm looking at coding my own projects: given AI eating everything, I'm starting to have fun writing things that actually bring me joy, and just ignore anything that isn't. Case in point: I'm not sure if I'll ever finish it, but I'm about a quarter way through writing my first Mac Classic app since ~1998--and doing it in PowerMops. Useful? Fuck no. But I'm having fun, and that's enough.

The radio weekend comes to a nice end, two quick videos and a blog post about the #zbitx #wrp radio are up: https://ham.bharathpalavalli.com/posts/20260502144921-making_the_zbitx_field_worthy/.

USB PD trigger is at: https://tilvids.com/w/tsKhLFmZhTBzje7MFSNZ9s
zBitx case mod is at: https://tilvids.com/w/tkTbZraFVJZihiyRD9zgWC

#amateurradio #ham

I'd say #LabourDay well spent, finally got around to powering the #zBitx from a powerbank and some bug fixes on the HAM Clock using an #esp32 CYD to get it up and running. A few more fixes and I'm all set for the next field day in better conditions :-).

#amateurradio #ham #qrp

Fun start to a group build we are doing at our radio club BARC (https://www.barc.in/), this is based on the work already done by SP3KON using an #esp32 CYD. Has some useful things to such as band conditions, APRS, HAM Alerts, POTA Spots, etc. Needs a bit more work to get it useful in the field, which is where I operate.

#amateurradio #aprs #homebrew

I guess a win for open-source and open-hardware in a way, my #FrameworkLaptop laptop had issues with recognising USB ports and there was a major boot issue with my operating system. #fedoralinux fixes the boot issue 'automagically', Linux has really progressed! I followed the guide to reset the motherboard on Framework's site, and now the USB ports work perfectly fine.

What do you do when your keychain breaks?

#woodworking #whittling

As a newly minted #ham, the radio convention in Hyderabad was fun! Folks in India should try to attend #LARC next year. #lamakaan #amateurradio #radio

I think I might have finally found a #sanserif font I like, please do check out https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/, Atkinson Hyperlegible seems to be well thought out. #a11y #webdev #fonts

All it took was about half an hour, but took me eight years to finally get to it, here is 1 of n. #bookmark #sketch #dance #mudra