I’ve made this cake a couple of times. It’s quite good.

https://youtu.be/Yi1W5qgtNYU?si=l6cvn5YZTbAsZZzb

What do you do for entertainment?

Mostly silence, but when I was in high school (some decades ago now) I had a CD of Mozart music I would put on while doing homework. I still associate Symphony 40 in G minor with grinding through tasks.

Stopped eating so damn much.

I read the The Hacker’s Diet by John Walker (who recently died, sadly) and followed his advice.

At the risk of facts getting in the way:

1. You can install ad blockers
2. Apps are not able to do that

Browser bookmarks. My trick is I make a new folder every month, for example “2024-01 Bookmarks”, and put it in the bookmarks bar. Whenever I realize I’m leaving a tab open because I want to look at it later, I put it into the current folder. That way I know it’s not lost and I give myself permission to close it.

When a new month comes around, I stick the previous folder in an “Archive” section and make a new one. It costs nothing to keep them forever, but avoids the current list getting out of control.

The 6502 was from MOS.

Instacart and Uber Eats, mostly.

Waiting out this winter’s covid surge living in the hot zone.

I haven’t left the house in months.

Sorry, I forgot about this thread, but I was reminded today when I saw the new bug. The issue that originally affected me was https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/103208. It broke Xbee users, so not everyone. My Zigbee integrations didn’t work after the update so I had to roll back to a backup for my first time with HA. A patch was developed, but it didn’t get integrated into any of the 2023.11.x releases, which I found kind of frustrating but I figured I’d wait it out and eventually there would be a version that works again.

Fortunately I held off on 2023.12, because according to https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/105344 a bunch of people are having problems with this release too.

The last update broke zigbee for a month, so forgive me if I don’t jump on this bandwagon.

My town doesn’t allow polymeric sand so I have to use regular masonry sand. It hasn’t affected the stability of the pavers, but pulling weeds all summer is kind of annoying.

Maybe you use plain sand now and come back and do it when it’s warm.

I was around pre-Internet, and it wasn’t any better. In fact, this “virtual world” has been a huge positive for me and has given me many opportunities to expand my social group and have a more fulfilling life. I don’t see the value in fetishizing disconnection.

My subscriptions are public: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisMasto/channels?view=56&shelf_id=0

Kind of a mix of well known science and tech stuff, and some out there things.

I flipped through and grabbed a few from different genres:

• https://www.youtube.com/@KathyLovesPhysics
• https://www.youtube.com/@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
• https://www.youtube.com/@HenryPhillips

• Roderick on the Line
• Risky or Not?
• Penn’s Sunday School
• This Podcast Will Kill You
• Reconcilable Differences
• Accidental Tech Podcast

Zeiss wipes.

iPhone 15 Pro. Safari.

It’s a little confusing. Nextion makes “HMI displays”. It’s an integrated module that runs its own software, draws the UI, processes events, etc. It’s a black box that just reports back to the processor “button 3 on page 1 has been pressed”. You design the interface with that ugly Windows app and upload it to the display, but there is no direct access to the screen.

To make use of the Nextion display, you need something connected to it, and that’s where the ESP32 comes in. It receives those “button 3 pressed” events and handles them, but crucially, it does not have raw access to the screen, so you can’t just draw your own widgets on it like you’d be able to do on an ordinary display.

There are other projects to build your own controller with a touch screen and a microcontroller; the appeal of the NSPanel is that it’s basically an ESP32 and a Nextion display conveniently prebuilt, has decent hardware and aesthetics, and it isn’t hard to reflash it with ESPHome. Replacing the Sonoff firmware on the ESP32 doesn’t change the limitations of the Nextion display.

I haven’t seen that software, but it doesn’t look like it can be used with Nextion screens, which are totally proprietary.

The way I use them is to reflash the firmware with ESPHome, at which point they have nothing to do with Sonoff. I got really into these things when they came out and made a video about the process: https://youtu.be/Kdf6W_Ied4o?si=4nh7kP28IglwVHBx. There are a bunch of different ways to use them including retaining the original software, but I kind of stopped paying attention when I got mine working.

It’s worth noting that they have two different products. The “NSPanel Pro” is completely different, I think it runs Android. I haven’t played with that at all.