#hobbyist — Public Fediverse posts

🎩🚂 Ah, the riveting saga of a Ph.D. with an undeniable obsession for choo-choos, dutifully crafting yet another locomotive shrine in his living room. Because who hasn't dreamt of spending three years meticulously simulating a train's journey to nowhere? Meanwhile, somewhere in the world, real trains are actually moving. 🚄🚪
https://z80.me/blog/tsc-2026-july/ #trainobsession #modelrailroading #PhDlife #hobbyist #creativity #engineering #HackerNews #ngated

🚁🧠 Ah yes, the thrilling world of drone physics, where you too can transform your weekend hobby into an endless maze of equations and jargon! 🤓✨ Perfect for those who've always dreamed of mixing #calculus with their drone flying, because who wouldn't want to spend their free time reconciling inertial frames? 📉😂
https://iahmed.me/post/drone-physics/ #dronephysics #hobbyist #physicsfun #aerialdrones #weekendprojects #HackerNews #ngated

🎥 Oh, look! Another brave soul who buys broken camera lenses because logic is overrated and savings mean nothing! 🤦‍♂️ Let's all admire the heroic journey of someone who dives into the complexities of lens repair only to save a few bucks, all while convincing themselves this is a 'hobby.' 🙄🔧
https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html #brokenlenses #lensrepair #hobbyist #savingshero #cameraenthusiast #HackerNews #ngated

@chockenberry @Cdespinosa I write this while looking at my Apple IIe, my IIgs, my monochrome green CRT that I used to watch VHS on when I was too poor to afford a second screen. (Ted Turner never even attempted to colorize The Terminator into its original green and black.)

#TechHoarder or #Hobbyist ?

Wow, a #hobbyist spent 3 months #tracking #petrol #prices like it’s the new Pokémon Go, but with #spreadsheets instead of Pikachu. 📊🔍 Meanwhile, the rest of us were busy doing literally anything else. ⛽️🤷‍♂️
https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk #PokémonGo #dataanalysis #petrolprices #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, another riveting tale of microcontrollers—because who doesn't love a deep dive into floating point #arithmetic on a #hobbyist chip? 🙄 Spoiler: if you enjoy endless links leading to nowhere and cryptic jargon, this post is your Disneyland. 🎢 Go ahead, embrace the thrill of being hopelessly confused! 🤓
https://danielmangum.com/posts/floating-point-cortex-m/ #microcontrollers #floatingpoint #techhumor #confusion #HackerNews #ngated

New York’s 3D printer bill is technically doomed.
They want AI to scan every file for “firearm geometry.” But even solving a 2D jigsaw puzzle is extremely difficult for AI — it has to match shape, color, orientation, and context all at once.
Now they want it to do that in 3D.

#3Dprinting #3Dprint
#Hobbyist #Cosplay #mak
#2A #Firearms #Guns
#NY #NYS #NYC #NewYork

Classic Radio Shack Protoboards #TindieBlog #Prototyping #Hobbyist #Electronics #RadioShack #WorkbenchClassics
https://blog.tindie.com/2026/04/classic-radio-shack-protoboards/

Any solar enthusiasts here? I would like to follow some people who do interesting stuff.

#Solar #Renewables #Energy #hobbyist

I write most of my code assuming that I do not read it for quite a while. If I would live in it everyday, I would probably prefer fewer comments and shorter variable names.
Also: How to run and update the project is what I seem to forget the easiest, so a section in the readme for that seems to be essential.

#programming #hobbyist

I just saw the shutdown notice for K&T Host. I am sad to see them go, but thankful for the services they provided. Hosting apps like Lemmy and Mitra through them hugely boosted my spirit in becoming a hobbyist sysadmin. Thank you, K&T Host, and happy retirement! I hope everyone manages to move their data before the February 1, 2026, full shutdown.

https://weblog.kalvin.my/farewell-to-k-t-host-gratitude-for-the-sysadmin-journey/

#knthost #webhosting #hosting #sysadmin #hobbyist #lemmy #mitra #bookstack #gotosocial #fediverse #selfhosting #tech #farewell #retirement #humane_tech #community #grateful #digitalautonomy #service

Ah, yes, because nothing screams "hobby" like lugging around a 1.5 kg #radiation meter to sniff out pebbles with a side of #ionizing #radiation. ⚛️💼 Who knew the secret to a fulfilling life was discovering just how irradiated your rock collection can get? 🔍🪨
https://maurycyz.com/projects/ludlum3/ #hobbyist #science #rocks #geiger #counter #HackerNews #ngated

🐢 Breaking news: Someone wrote a "high-performance" full-text search engine in Go! 🚀 Because clearly, Google needed another competitor, and the world was desperate for more search engines built from scratch by hobbyists. 🙄
https://github.com/wizenheimer/blaze #highperformance #searchengine #Go #programming #hobbyist #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

This is the simplest car's wiring diagram you can find, Frank Lyaruu says in "No cars were harmed for this talk".

#EuroRust #EuroRust25 #AutomotiveRust #hobbyist

What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/09/what-if-i-dont-want-videos-of-my-hobby-time-available-to-the-entire-world/

#HackerNews #privacy #concerns #hobbyist #content #online #safety #personal #boundaries

👨‍🔬🥱 "J-Link RTT for the Masses," or "How to Overcomplicate Simple #Debugging with #Semihosting on ARM!" Because obviously, what every #hobbyist needs is a dissertation-level guide to turning a microcontroller into a chatty friend. Spoiler: Just use printf like the rest of us 🙄.
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/insights/jlink-rtt-for-the-masses/ #JLinkRTT #ARM #Microcontrollers #HackerNews #ngated

🖥️ Oh sure, everyone has an hour to spare for "a minimal proof of concept #timesharing OS #kernel on RISCV"—next you'll be #coding your own silicon in your #garage, right? 🙄 This is perfect for those who have too much free time and an insatiable desire to be the only person who understands their own obscure system software. 👨‍💻
https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/ #minimalOS #RISCV #hobbyist #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the ancient #art of turning perfectly good trees into glorified kindergarten #crafts 🤡✂️. Nothing screams "advanced hobbyist" like meticulously gluing paper together to create #3D approximations of things that exist in real life 🚀📄. Next up: revolutionary insights on how #scissors change EVERYTHING! 🔪✨
https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper #hobbyist #tree #printing #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Instead of spending my last day off gaming, I've spent a lot of it rearranging things on my website :ablobfoxdundundunowo:

Now there's random Star Trek quotes on the left sidebar, along with fediverse trending hashtags (pulled from mastodon.online), and I removed the "notes" from the front page again because I just don't use them lol

🚨 Breaking News: "Tiny kernel" enthusiast spends countless hours reinventing the wheel, only to discover it's still round and doesn't quite fit the car. 🚗🔧 Meanwhile, #GitHub applauds politely while silently wondering if AI could have written a better hobby project in its sleep. 🤖💤
https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck #TinyKernel #Reinvention #CountlessHours #AIProject #Hobbyist #HackerNews #ngated

🖨️✨ So you bought a Prusa 3D printer and suddenly think you're an engineer? 🤔 Welcome to the world of fine-tuning endless parameters just to watch your plastic spaghetti ooze awkwardly. 🎉 Remember, nothing says "I have no life" more than measuring belt tension for the perfect cube. 🤷‍♂️
https://arachnoid.com/3D_Printing_Prusa_Core_One/ #3Dprinting #PrusaPrinter #engineering #hobbyist #makercommunity #printerproblems #HackerNews #ngated

Measuring the characteristics of some cheap J113 / 2SJ113 n-channel JFETs I bought, so I can match them / divvy them into bins.

Put #15 of 20 into the JFET test circuit, and the power supply's current limiter kicks in ... whoops. Did I have it turned around so I swapped the terminals? Nope...

Take a peek at it. Slightly different marking. Still "J113", but the factory/date code is different. Put it in the component tester... it's a PNP BJT transistor, not a JFET at all, and with a pinout completely unsuitable for the JFET test circuit. If it had been in for more than a second, it probably would have let the Magic Smoke out.

Oh, #AliExpress sellers, where would #hobbyist #electronics people be without you? Somewhere with less excitement in their lives, I guess.

#MagicSmoke #Chinesium #fake #remarked #component #transistor #JFET #BJT #J113 #hobby