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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Toradex Luna uses the Synaptics sl1680, which has a unique way of formatting the eMMC for boot. In this blog post, I will show the PhobOS unified flash image for flashing the eMMC on the Toradex Luna. From Yocto 16 .subimg files to just 1 raw disk image: microhobby.com.br/blog/toradex...

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Toradex Luna Unified Flash Image

Toradex Luna uses Synaptics sl1680 that has a pretty unique way to format the eMMC to boot. On this blog post I will show the PhobOS unified flash image that can be used to flash the eMMC on Toradex L...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

AI is doing another annoying thing to software developers besides "AI will take your job." Anything you show, even if it took a lot of work, no matter how difficult it is, there's that idiot who says, "oh, but with Claude that was easy" 🙄

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

In Brazil, World Cup game day is the day for the whole family to dress up in the national team T-shirt

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's Debian, it's secure, it's atomic, it's OSTree, you can still apt-get install without the need for containers and use torizon.io update system. It's PhobOS!

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ever wondered if you can run Windows CE on a Raspberry Pi 5? Probably no 😅. But it was fun and I learned a lot of things trying it. In my last video, I show Windows CE 7 running on Raspberry Pi 5, even blinking LEDs 🤯. Check it out: youtu.be/do2CChP5tK8 Blog post: microhobby.com.br/blog/2025/02...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Finally I had the opportunity to have Windows on arm in my hands. Sneak peak of the first build to Torizon OS Development Env for WSL 2 arm64 🤩. arm all the things, on your development board, on your product and on your development PC.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I have to be fair. After some days using a Mac Mini M4 I have to say I'm impressed. Everything runs smoother than on my Windows 12th generation Asus i7. And the system is beautiful 😍. I'm still having hard time with shortcuts, but with Karabiner I can remap some I was used to from Windows.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Now I'm a Python developer and I have a Mac. ohh f*%$, I've become what I feared the most 😱

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I failed to show my coworkers the best of the .NET. And I was influenced to follow with Python. It's bigger, more popular, and new (not new, but young people love it). I would have more acceptance and increased chances of contributions. Bye .NET, it was a good ride 🥲

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The first of the year! Last Sunday the Linux Kernel v6.13 was released, and as usual here is my build for WSL 2. Github mainline + dxkrnl: github.com/microhobby/l...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

No no, is out of the standard. The parsers should strict follow the standard. obs: Is just what I'm hearing these days. I'm just curious to hear what Mr PowerShell would argue.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

No no, PowerShell is bad and should never exists as this accepts invalid JSON.

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The EU should demand that American Big Tech sell their assets to European companies. They can’t be trusted to not manipulate the data for propaganda reasons. Not doing so is a national security risk. Am I doing this right?

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If PowerShell was strict about JSON I would be able to reuse the line in Python, what was not the case. But I was expecting something not so strict, as people say that Python is easy. My bad...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

And I'm "attacking" the fan base not the community. And I really agree with @pmaris.bsky.social that using something that is not so strict is dangerous. This all thing begin because I'm migrating from PowerShell to Xonsh and I face this issue with my one line 'JSON' config for internal build.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Are you afraid that I will delete the posts? This is my real first and unique life profile, I show my face and I take responsibility for my opinions. My JSON, or whatever it is, is not invalid and I can use it with PowerShell without any problem.

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Mouette @pmaris.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If you are looking for a permissive json library for python, you can try json5. >>> import json5 >>> json5.loads("{ arch: 'arm64', torizon_arch: 'aarch64' }") {'arch': 'arm64', 'torizon_arch': 'aarch64'} but remember you are not doing json!

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Are you right. I'm wrong, sorry to disrespect your facts.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I do not hate Python. I like to pay my bills.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Is only a matter of strictness. My point, as all from Python ecosystem is new for me, is that Python is not as easy or friendly as people rush it. It sometimes is so stricness that I think I should use C/C++ instead. I'm more productive using C#, PowerShell or JS when I need something "easy".

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

After starting to use Python for some time I think I know what the problem with it is. The fan base ...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

And as I'm saying, is not valid for Python 🤦

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The other thing that annoys me is how Python fans don't accept that Python and its ecosystem is not perfect and is in fact complicated.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I am migrating my shell to Xonsh, now I have the Copilot working. The worst was having to do it in Python ...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

not for all, but for Python yes. The only thing that annoy me is that they say that Python "is straightforward and bla bla bla", but there are silly things that it insists on being so strict ...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It appears that the following string is not valid JSON for Python 🤦 "{ arch: 'arm64', torizon_arch: 'aarch64' }" json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Tried now the "Nvidia Gerforce Now". Is PRETTY BAD! Does not have 4K support, the latency is horrible and keeps disconnecting all the time. Fortunately, I only signed up for the day pass.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Note: I'm using Python nowadays, but I'm being forced into it. Not that I like it.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Cool, very cool. JSON is built-in in Python but YAML is not. And the Python people continue to use YAML in everything that would be better off as JSON. 😏

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

oh boy, thanks for reminding me that I'm this old. I started developing for Android when we only had the plugin for Eclipse.

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Nice, so you can't do something like this on Python: i = 0 i++

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

To me no, it does not. the string is the f"" and when I use the {} inside it, it should have Python code. So, I should be able to use even the double quotes in my code. But no, you need to mix the quotes 🤦‍♂️

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Please, do you really think that this makes sense?

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Nice, so you can't do something like this on Python: print(f"{namespace}/{result["name"]}")

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Where are the Embedded Linux developers from #bluesky?

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Someone might say I'm crazy. I say I'm fixing Python. On this demo PyBraces + custom PyLint + PyLint extension for strict MyPy integration for VS Code 😎

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Eu não sei não viu, eu acho que já está começando a ficar arrumado isso ai. Toda vez por inimaginivel que pariça. Esse menino não sei não, vá pra casa vá ...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

In those times when the child cries and the mother doesn't see ...

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Matheus Castello (MicroHobby) @microhobby.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Building my own custom embedded Linux distribution, feeling positive

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