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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 13/08/2026

And now, a lesson on CEO-ing from Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber Interactive:

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bit of excitement tonight, got an AWS billing alert for a casual 1.3 billion dollars!

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 01/07/2026

Would you also like to admire the irregular shape of the moons of Mars? 🌚

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Wiring up the breadboard for a test. Almost there!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I gotta have my telescope in working order for this!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If you want a nice NTP clock and like building stuff, this project is great. Built one a few months back and just found out the software has advanced even more. Can even do OTA updates now. esptimecast.com

esptimecast.com

ESPTimeCast™ - WiFi connected LED Matrix Clock & Weather Display

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This was also important since to meet the target slew speed I want, i need to step the motors every 150us, so needed around 10,000 loop it/s. The main problem blocking this was i2c communications with the accelerometer and magnetometer.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Performance week! Last Tuesday pings/sec was 73, while the startup time was 1.1 seconds, and the loop it/s was unknown. Today: - Pings/sec 7100+ - Startup time ~0.11 seconds - Loop it/s ~67,000 (target of 10,00) A few things went into this:

Telescope benchmark showing a message throughput on serial communications with 7132 pings per second throughput

Log from telescope benchmark showing MCU boot ready time of 0.12 seconds

Log from telescope MCU showing 65,924 loop iterations a second

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

To hit the desired slew speed on the telescope I need the steppers to step every ~150us. That means I need to be able to step the drivers 10,000 times a second with no stalls. I think this is possible. Otherwise I have in mind an ISR based approach that should work also.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Been tinkering with my telescope project the past few weeks. Almost finished converting the controller board from Arduino Mega to Pico. Currently wrestling with moving from breadboard to PCB. This will be my first PCB, and I think I might be in the deep end!

KiCad schematic of a Raspberry Pico MCU and several modules including 2 TMC2209 stepper drivers, an oled screen, GPS module and accelerometer/magnetometer

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Finally got back into my telescope project last night. Have an initial version of the firmware ported from Arduino Mega2560 to RPi Pico. Missing some features, but most of the kinks and incompatibilities seem to be ironed out. Next step is writing new stepper code for TMC2209 drivers.

PlatformIO log if successful build of firmware for StargazeController

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I decided to replay COD4 single player. I'm not sure it was a good idea. 20 years hasn't done it any favours. It's not as amazing as I remembered it.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Also, how many channels does this guy have?!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This 25 minute video on Vegemite has absolutely no right to be so interesting and dive into so much history of nutrition. youtu.be/D9Ieh_OXjoE

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WTF is Up with Vegemite?

YouTube video by Fact Quickie

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The Movie Backlog Reviews @themoviebacklog.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Just Watched 📽️: Project Hail Mary (2026) Amaze Amaze Amaze! Visually fantastic. Good adaptation of the book. Small changes for comedic timing or to work better on film. I wasn't sure Ryan Gosling could pull off Dr. Grace, but very happy to be proved wrong. Worth a watch: yes! #MovieSky #movie 🎬

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My brother designed and printed a case for this. Looks great!

A home solar, battery and energy consumption epaper display in a blue 3D printed case.

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The Movie Backlog Reviews @themoviebacklog.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Just Watched 🎬: Asteroid City (2023) Interesting, funny but odd. I audibly said "wtf am I watching" at one point. Fantastic sets, camera work, minatures and transitions. Felt like I needed a YT breakdown to fully appreciate it. Worth a watch: it's not for everyone. I enjoyed it. #MovieSky #movie

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Made a new status display for the home solar and battery system. The epaper display looks so good!

Epaper display showing home solar and battery statistics.

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DarkViperAU @darkviper.au · 18/11/2025

Her video explaining everything is here: youtube.com/watch?v=djluF6… Her legal fund is here: gofund.me/45f72d8b7 I donated $1000 to support her cause, but sadly the situation hasn’t received much attention. Even if you can’t contribute, watching and sharing her video would help a lot.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

After 14 or so years, finally cancelling my paid dropbox sub. Literally every time I refresh the website I get this upsell.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Halloween week! Time for Vigo to make another appearance!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

> But he claimed it wasn’t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first. "Asking for permission first would bankrupt the streaming media industry" - Napster probably should have tried this one.

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Why are long lists so terrible online? Take a music playlist, it loads 20-30 songs at a time, and then you need to scroll to the bottom, and wait for the next batch to load. Just implement virtual scroll ffs. Count the items in the playlist, let me scroll to the real end, and then batch load that.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is just my little non-monetised personal blog. Imagine this across all the sites across the internet.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It's still pretty weird to see AI people claim that LLMs aren't destroying web traffic. Let's play a game: Guess when ChatGPT launched:

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I've been following Derfies progress on this on discord for a while. He's cooking some cool stuff!

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Dylan Browne @dylanbrowne.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

So, anyone got any cool jobs going haha? Interested in Tech Art, Lighting , Lookdev Unreal roles, remote from Adelaide, let me help you make pretty things!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I want to get back on my telescope, and reviewing some of the pain points. Setting up power for a test outside at night is pretty annoying. I know absolute peak draw is under 40watts, and real world measured draw is 17 watts. Enter this amazing thing. I can run it for 3 hours off a power bank!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Got a notification today that Plex was breached and to reset passwords. Decided to double check privacy options there. Woah, they send your data to a LOT of vendors by default. Make sure to check "All No" here. www.plex.tv/vendors-us/

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Opt-Out Choices

Your Choices We take your privacy seriously. If you’d like more details on how we collect, use, and transfer your...

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

New kubernetes lab! 5x Pi Zero 2w's. Been wanting to deep dive it for a while, and this is a nice isolated environment to mess around with k3s.

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John T (the GRA is silent) @grajohnt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New project making progress! A timelapse of the LEDs doing the thing I want them to do, which is display a real-time feed from my all-sky camera. Part of my efforts to "Bring the outside in"

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I've spent some time getting familiar with Podman recently to replace docker. I'm really impressed with it. The Quadlet integration with systemd is awesome once you wrap your head around it.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Why did they choose such dramatically different lighting/color correction for a DLSS example? DLSS 4 looks good, but their demo video is a bit deceptive.

DLSS4 on/off comparison image with dramatically different lighting

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

After nearly burning out my Raspberry Pi5 and laptop the other day I've setup a sacrificial pi zero 2 W to wirelessly reprogram microcontrollers when working on new prototypes.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The opinions on AI feel so polarized, I feel out of place in both camps. I'm not in the camp of "AI is useless, has no killer app and is a waste of resources" nor am I in the camp of "THIS IS THE PATH TO AGI". Where's the more nuanced takes?

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Senua is back home from an overnight stay at the vet, and she's feeling much better!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Advent Of Code Day 3 done. I opted for manual string parsing over regex as I just generally don't enjoy working with regex. Who just went with regex? #Python #AdventOfCode

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This was the video referenced. I can't stand the audio, I've learned so much since making this first video! youtu.be/nheFNQs378s

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Why Doesn't Camouflage Work in Games? - Ask A Game Dev

YouTube video by GDCorner

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Wow just randomly ran into a reference to my very first YouTube video while watching a video! That's unexpected and a first for me! The reference is at about 5:40. youtu.be/6Ov9GhEV3eE

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Dynamic Lighting Was Better Nine Years Ago | A Warning About 9TH Gen's Neglect.

YouTube video by Threat Interactive

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Restoring an OPNSense backup is proving more annoying than I hoped. Apparently you can only restore during install if you have an unencrypted backup. Can't find instructions anywhere on using an encrypted backup.

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Josh @drjosh.dev · 01/12/2024

Finally remembered enough VB6 to finish #AdventOfCode Day 1

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Day 1 of advent of code was a good warm up. Took me 30 mins inc setup and because of a very silly mistake that took a while to work out in part 1. #AdventOfCode #python

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Sean Hodgins @idlehandsdev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This project nearly doomed me.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In the early days of my telescope project I had a mishap with a 3D printed part in the sun! Apparently black 3D prints get all melt-y in the sun. I wrote up the results of some experiments I ran with different filaments and colours earlier in the year. www.gdcorner.com/blog/2024/02...

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How Does Color Affect 3D Printer Filament Strength In The Sun?

I wanted to deep dive into choosing the correct 3D print filament for my telescope project. In todays post I show how print color affects the strength of 3D prints in sunlight, and how PETG isn’t alwa...

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Rebecca Bardess✨👑 @rebeccabardess.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

OK. Let's relaunch the Blogosphere! 1/ Put your blog URL in the comments. 2/ If added, please share this post so others can join. 3/ If you don't have a blog, the blogging software I use is 50% off for Black Friday, with free training: app.kajabi.com/r/iW2af4Zf go.bsky.app/TbYqDZV

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I have really mixed opinions on this. I have lost time to LLMs leading me up the garden path. I also think LLMs could possibly lead to a stagnation in tech. We may never see another rust or go because LLMs won't have the data to train on new languages and people follow existing models.

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