Reposted by Matthew Wilkes👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/06/2026I know you lot aren’t the ones who need to hear this, but: all a ban does is make the banned thing less safe, ever. Kids are gonna keep going online and now they are going to meet a predator who’s going to be able to threaten them with “you’ll get in trouble if you tell anyone” 17706212
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 06/05/2026We were considering decoding the commands to the LCD to reconstruct the buffer, as part of a testing harness 100
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 06/05/2026Ah, right, and moving the ctx framebuffer to the PSRAM will increase the DMA load, I think. Bluetooth and Wifi use that peripheral also, so it might help a bit, but obviously not good for the badge in general 100
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 06/05/2026Absolutely, and always love to see new fun badge hacks. So, did it not free up as much space as expected, and this is preventing MP from allocating heap, do you reckon? Just wondering where else you could get some RAM from. Maybe disabling some components like wifi, but feels like a poor option. 100
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 06/05/2026This very much made the badge team smile during our sync just now. 110
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 06/05/2026Also, I would love a photo if you have it hooked up to a CRT. Even if it's a broken image with bad sync, so long as therenis structure visible 100
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 05/05/2026Want to try uncommenting the PSRAM move macro on line 33 of gc9a01/display.c? That should move 100kb or so to PSRAM 200
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 05/05/2026It would be so good to have that, though! How much RAM do you need? 240×240, or is it multiple bytes per pixel? 100
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 05/05/2026👀 Are you allocating memory yourself, or reusing the ctx framebuffer? I imagine timing is hard if you're running the whole OS, so I would guess you're interrupting it? 100
Reposted by Matthew WilkesKaren Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying 6695953544
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 11/04/2026"Most or all of this image was edited or generated with Google AI." 030
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 03/04/2026The 'German' answer to this question is so, so accurate. german.millermanschool.com 000
Reposted by Matthew WilkesBoak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Well, there's one for the photo library. It'll be handy, this. 4507
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 29/03/2026Love it. I was tempted to stand in the road to try and frame this better. 0334
Reposted by Matthew WilkesAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Let's not pretend that networking events are socials. They aren't. They are ghastly business events with alcohol. All the misery of meeting people you don't want to plus the insult of them being raucously drunk. The inventor should be deeply ashamed of themselves. 5993
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 07/03/2026This website is the best thing ever. youraislopbores.me 000
Reposted by Matthew WilkesMarie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Oh my god Lmao youraislopbores.me 511942
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 25/02/2026Looking for this symbol, I found people on metastackexchangeoverflow saying that it was meaningless/there is no relationship between A and B, but I think it means that A and B form part of a weak ordering. The bus may come in 3 minutes, or 84.2 minutes, but not in the identity quaternion minutes. 000
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 25/02/2026One of my local bus routes used to advertise "up to every five minutes or better" which I can only interpret as the interval between buses being greater than, equal to, or less than 5 minutes. 121
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 09/02/2026I feel like @ericof.com and the rest of the Plone community is responsible for this 110
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 27/01/2026I just checked. It managed to bill me correctly a whopping 25% of the time (the only time I left without purchasing something). The procedure to fix misbilling is to _print the receipt and go to speak to a member of staff in person_. Such a perfect microcosm of the AI user experience. 000
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 27/01/2026Attending BETT at the ExCeL last week involved hearing a lot about AI, as you would expect. Coincidentally, just about the only shop without huge queues was an unstaffed "Just Walk Out technology by Amazon" stall, that uses 'AI' to detect purchases. 100
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 26/01/2026BREAKING: something that happened last week, but I just got around to reading 000
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 24/01/2026Looking at renewing my Yorkshire Cricket Club membership for another year, and I spot that they now offer lifetime memberships. "Well, that's an interesting idea", I think. I wonder when I would break even. Assuming 4% inflation, I would be 70. 000
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 19/01/2026Set it to 73, but convince yourself it isn't base 10. It is even in base 9. 040
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 03/01/2026I have the good fortune to be turning 40 on the last day of EMF this year. No amount of transformation could compete with EMF madness. 010
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 24/12/2025It is the opposite for me this year. For the first time in at least 5 years, the TV has not been switched to internal speakers, bypassing the sound bar. 000
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 13/11/2025That was the last hostel room I stayed in, and by far the most fun 120
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 18/08/2025Was in Edinburgh for the weekend. This morning I tried to get a square and egg roll, but they gave me link and egg. Disaster. 020
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 02/06/2025Watching the Kaiser Chiefs at Temple Newsam on Saturday, and they start being very Leeds United. Something tells me that for most of the attendees, something amazing is happening. Great concert, I just don't know my trophies and my strikers. 040
Reposted by Matthew WilkesGlenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 10/05/2025I finally got around to trying gandalf.lackera.ai and it was a real fun way to kill an hour (even if one tricke solved many step) 101
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 10/05/2025Just tried it, that was fun. Level 7 was the most fun, I got it so close a few times before it would clam up. 010
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 10/05/2025Why are people so keen to outsource all their creativity and artistry and _fun_ to LLMs? 020
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 10/05/2025The latest depressing experience with vibe coding.. A really fun little self-contained project, a treat for myself around the less technical tasks. Anyway, some more junior engineers have some free time, and offer to help. Their first suggestion, outsource it all to Gemini. 110
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 28/02/2025The only time I remember seeing a 4 order-of-magnitude speedup was early in my career, when one engineer (who guarded his code like a dragon's horde) told another "you won't get more than a few milliseconds out of that, I've microoptimised it". 120
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 06/01/2025Thanks, you got me with this too. I thought I'd see what words start with homophones of other English names for letters. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped, e.g.: A is for Aisle C is for Cane D is for Djinn O is for OEstrus Q is for Queso S is for Seek W is for Wyes X is for Xenic Y is for Yuzu 010
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 25/12/2024I'm not at all sure about this Only Connect answer. Shouldn't it be: Sunday Tue 27th Dec Mon 26th Dec When Christmas day falls on a Sunday, the Christmas Day bank holiday is substituted for the Tuesday but the Boxing Day bank holiday remains on the Monday. 020
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 25/12/2024Have been accused of "having dropsy" after dropping a knife twice in one day. 010
Matthew Wilkes @matthewwilkes.name · 29/11/2024If collections count, then Sonic 1 for the Megadrive. Otherwise, maybe Steredenn (Steam, Switch Digital, Switch Physical) 000
Reposted by Matthew WilkesMatt Kane @mk.gg · 26/11/2024Bluesky is a great way to add comments to your blog or site. I've made a web component to make that easy to do. Load the script, then use the <bluesky-comments> tag. Looks great by default, but is super-customisable with CSS vars and parts. Lazy loads, zero frameworks github.com/ascorbic/blu...bluesky-comments.netlify.appAstro Basics 1312220
