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I make electronics go beep boop and tools go spinny. Also, I pet cats sometimes. I am eternally grumpy that the state of the internet, and of fedi in particular, is […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fedi.uni.horse/@emily, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 6h
sudden curiosity: do poly people use the term "single"? clearly it can semantically apply (a person who is generally polyamorous but has zero partners currently) but under monogamy it's a necessary condition for "open to new partner", so i am wondering if it has acquired monogamous connotations […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18h
after a frankly ridiculous number of setbacks, i have produced one #vaporpad #theWorkshop
a small keyboard shaped kind of like nevadain the dark you can see the pretty purple backlight
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21h
walked away from the sla printer to put another file on its usb drive, came back to find it erasing its own flash unprompted?? and now it will not start of course the fuck is wrong with literally all my technology
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 22h
petition to rename long-form youtube videos to youtube pants
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
before llms, we had markov chains. they were pure next-word-predictors, and they were great: super easy to train, could easily run on any computer you happened to have available, not obviously useful for much so nobody ever put them into anything besides "occasionally generate silly thing" bots […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
okay what the fuck this latest board revision made exactly two functional changes. one was to change the MCU's BOOT0 from being directly tied to ground to having a 10K pulldown, so i could use the DFU bootloader SWD does not work when that resistor is populated. if i remove it and let BOOT0 […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
oh good, my st-link's "3.3V" output is 2.2V with no load
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
oops plugged my laptop in last night, confirmed that it was charging, and then turned off the power strip i'd plugged it into
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
hey hey aurora hi aurora aurora look at me i'm upside down :3
Liliana, a black cat, is rolling around on her back making silly noises. Aurora, a gray tabby cat, looks off into the distance, pointedly ignoring her.
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
hanging out with my partner while they grade work their students submitted the corresponding lesson included two ways to do a particular thing in R, separated by a single line comment reading `#or` so several students, when asked for R scripts that do the thing, turned in scripts that do both […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
clickbait video concept: "can the dumbest cat beat the smartest chess engine?" video is just 15 minutes of deacon bonking his face into lichess, occasionally making a valid move, absolutely not anywhere near winning. but having a great time and being very cute
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
i have done a voting <3 washington for making mail voting the default
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
pleased to announce that i have received my replacement modem, and the current version of the firmware moved the "fuck all my shit up" button* that i kept accidentally clicking to a submenu (* supposedly the "lock to this cell tower" button but what it seemed to do in practice was knock me […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
realizing just now that my genome is backed up following the 3-2-1 rule one copy on my local hard drive, one in my offsite backups, and one in a very complicated distributed organic system that performs its own periodic replication processes
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
curry is when you find a recipe that looks good, so you do the first step and procrastinate the rest
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
[llm, making fun of companes i've found while job hunting] - chatbot that automates away third party recruiters, in that it introduces you to companies and attempts to charge them 15% of your salary for the privilege. tbh kinda hilarious as a bit, but will not be engaging with either end of it […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
TIL: the "things amazon has learned about you" list is *editable* (through what appears to be an llm interface) www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1 use this knowledge wisely
Home and family: Is a cat

Interests & Hobbies: Enjoys meowing

Interests & Hobbies: Enjoys prompt injecting LLM features on shopping websites
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
so we had a power outage earlier our modem didn't come back up (appears to be known firmware issue), and while poking at it, i attempted a firmware update that failed and bricked it (appears to *also* be known firmware issue, i am appropriately unamused) so i went to walmart, which is […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
power outage status: please help
PSE's power outage map, showing several active outages. immediately below it is a "join our team" link to their jobs page, like half the size of the map
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
okay apparently SLA printing is kinda good now? (ABS-like resin instead of the default comically brittle stuff helps a lot) #vaporpad #3dPrinting #theWorkshop
a matte black vaporpad, no buttons but otherwise fully assembled. it looks very Sleek and Future. a bunch of assorted prototype parts are lying around in the background
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
[mildly cursed bash discovery] ``` PS1="\w\$ " ~$ PS1='\w\$ ' ~$ blah='meow'; PS1="$blah\$ " meow$ blah='meow'; PS1='$blah\$ ' meow$ blah='\w'; PS1="$blah\$ " ~$ blah='\w'; PS1='$blah\$ ' \w$ ``` I think what's happening here is: `""` does substitution when $PS1 is set, which parses […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
the linkedin is attempting to contact the emily (this is a 100% real message as far as I can tell, it's one of those post-signup automated How To Get The Most Out Of Our Apocalyptic Wasteland messages)
email with sender "The LinkedIn Team via LinkedIn", subject "The LinkedIn just messaged you"
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
doing cad crimes
Under-constrained: 616 Degrees of Freedom

(the last bit of the 'm' at the end is cut off because presumably nobody expected me to have a three digit number there)
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
i have misplaced a whole gallon of acetone why am i like this
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
the other thing I need for this #vaporpad prototype is a frame that doesn't look like trash (this one is explicitly for fancy photography purposes). unfortunately I have hyperoptimized my main FDM print profile for reasonably-fast, moderately-trash-quality functional parts so now running two […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
fedi.uni.horse/@emily/statuses/01M3… I finished this btw, try my silly shark game: shorkle.uni.horse
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might spend the day cloning [obnoxiously ad-ridden mobile game my partner and i have both gotten addicted to] as a daily-puzzle-style web game, i feel like doing a small well-defined project for once
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
[cursed js thing i just discovered] So there's this thing where JS provides no way to get the current *local* time in ISO format, only the current *UTC* time, but you can fake it by getting the current local time in the Swedish locale, which is almost ISO format (you can then `.replace(" " […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Experiment: how much torque can you put on a threaded fastener, when it's surface mounted to a PCB? Method: One brass M2 heat set insert was soldered to a round through-hole pad (OD 4mm, ID 1.2mm), and another to an area of ground plane where the solder mask had been scraped off. Board was […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
assembled a vaporpad pcb today to send off to crowdsupply, now with mew logo :3
bottom of a vaporpad pcb viewed in a microscope. there's an "it's probably fine" silkscreen, and a cat face in mostly silkscreen but the whiskers are tinned pads
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
[lewd, ai, orange site] skimmed over this in a sea of "we're applying AI to [randomly chosen field]" posts, and did a double take at the weird person calling their LLM "her" then reread it and realized that the LLM was not, in fact, the referent of "her" but that would have been better i think
a post from the HN hiring thread:

Devin (The Devin Experience) | Founding Hardware Lead | Toronto or Boston preferred | REMOTE (North American time zones) | Full-time | Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity | https://experiencedevin.com/jobs

We're building an intimate device that responds in real time to a live AI-generated story and to her body: an app-connected, sensor-equipped vibrator synced to an interactive audio story that AI performs live. The device follows the story, and the story follows her body. Our first 1,000 pre-orders sold out, and we've raised a $1.5M pre-seed. All-woman founding team (CEO is an exited founder and HBS grad; CTO is a multi-time founder and MIT alum; COO/CPO helped lead Wattpad to a $650M exit).

This is employee #1. You'll own hardware architecture, review and change our China partners' schematics and C/C++ BLE firmware (ESP32 / nRF), co-design the BLE protocol under tight latency budgets, integrate the IMU and body sensors (separating real body signals from the device's own vibration), and take us from prototype through EVT/DVT, certification and production, with trips to Shenzhen at key milestones.

You've shipped connected hardware end to end (consumer, wearable, medical or robotics), have 8+ years building hardware products with hands-on embedded work, and have been through at least one production ramp with a contract manufacturer. Bonus: haptics/motor control (ERM/LRA, PWM, waveform tuning), real-time systems, body-worn sensing, FCC/CE/Bluetooth SIG certification.

Apply: email morgan@experiencedevin.com with your resume or LinkedIn and a short note on one product you shipped: what you owned, the hardest hardware problem you solved, and how you knew it worked
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
but doctor, you *are* the abuse point of contact
whois result for a hostpapa ip address, with remarks reading: "please submit all abuse reports via the resource abuse point of contact. reports to this mailbox may not be actioned."
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
``` $ whois [redacted].shop Notice: Effective May 1, 2026, the WHOIS service has been retired in accordance with ICANN's RDAP transition policy. All registration data queries are now served via RDAP. The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) base URL is: rdap.gmoregistry.net/rdap ``` […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
my partner has had a rough time recently, and today i am trying to help by parsing R code with regular expressions
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
i just forgot dns existed for a moment and started trying to remember the ip address of my bank's website
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
this is fine (this is my bad-RAM machine, which i no longer consider worth replacing and am kinda just living with)
$ reboot
reboot: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: undefined symbol: [unprintable character]_truncsfhf2, version GCC_12.0.0
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
adderall implies subtracternone
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
"staff engineer" should mean you get to whack misbehaving computers with a big stick
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
suddenly remembering that time i was a small child and I saw the (then new) movie Flubber. if you haven't seen it, the important part here is there's a scientist guy, he invents sentient flying green goo called flubber, and hilarity ensues and then later I found a recipe on the internet for […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
living in the middle of nowhere is great because you can do Exciting Chemistry in your driveway at 1am and nobody can stop you (i did not realize it was 1am)
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
omg quinn do not confess to major crimes in public youtube videos
youtube subtitle from the start of the latest blondihacks video: "Hello internet. My name is Quinn and this is Bloody Axe."
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
still trying to return this phone i bought that's cobbled together from parts of other phones and having an identity crisis they ignored me for a couple weeks, so i opened a paypal dispute, and today i got this bizarre response
email from support:

Hello Emily,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

You will need to contact the platform where you purchased the device and submit a return request through their system. Their support team will be able to assist you with the return process and provide further instructions.

Thank you for your understanding.

my response:

You are the platform where I purchased the device. I bought it from your website.
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
if ham radio is so good why don't they make cheese radio
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Probability of wanting to switch jobs soon has gone from "maybe" to "extremely likely" recently, so now public and boostable: I'm looking for work. Software engineer, 14 years experience working on various SaaS things in various languages and frameworks, lots of linux […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
where does one buy a reasonable amount of HCl i do not need the whole gallon home depot wants to sell me, i need however much it takes to cover a copper clad pcb several inches in width
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
average liliana face
a black cat looking either content or vaguely pissed off at something. hard to tell which
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
update from the local discord that fractured when discord did Things People Didn't Like earlier this year: discord is still the main space where most people hang out. some people just outright left the community because everyone (me included) dragged their feet setting up alternatives i am the […]
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
[ed sheeran] wandering.shop/@avram/1173100140527… the internal conflict between "as a rule, i do not boost either politics or celebrity drama*" and "but that's some amazing poetry" * this isn't a statement on the importance of the underlying geopolitics, don't @ me
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“What exactly happened, Sheeran? You had audiences cheerin’. Now it seems they’re disappearin’, headed for the exit door. You were doing great, and then you ticked off him who owns the venue; Now your friends have vanished when you need their help as ne’er before— Who's the friend whose speech offended Robert Kraft and caused uproar?” Quoth the Sheeran “Macklemore.”
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
OH: "on a scale of 1 to 5, which of these 10 questions applies to you"
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
just did a double take because someone dm'ed me asking "are you white?" several seconds later, i realized they were asking whether i will be playing the white pieces in the chess tournament game we have scheduled later today
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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
might spend the day cloning [obnoxiously ad-ridden mobile game my partner and i have both gotten addicted to] as a daily-puzzle-style web game, i feel like doing a small well-defined project for once
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