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Vivek Ranjan

@bcosynot

Staff+ engineering leader, product builder, neurodivergent, photography lover, tinkerer, etc He/him BOM -> MSP -> NYC Blogging at prodlog.xyz

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Fairphone put out a document that takes a holistic look at the environmental impact of electronics. Everything detailed by component, material, process, etc. Really interesting for those looking to dig deeper

www.fairphone.com/wp-content/u...

03.03.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Its beautiful

01.03.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mass Call: Laid-Off Tech Workers & Allies

I’m looking forward to this succeeding

wwwrise.org

18.02.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Got added to a techno pessimists list today lol :confused-dog: This site is wild.

17.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it β€œlessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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11.02.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 5249 πŸ” 2658 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 907

good night, and good luck printing
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/09/g...

09.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have problem stopping my self from playing one more turn in video games.

I’m seeing the same thing play out for myself with Claude code

03.02.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thought of soldering 20 buttons with a gazillion wires on a perfboard kills me. Time to learn kicad I guess

28.01.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

27.01.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 17314 πŸ” 6912 πŸ’¬ 504 πŸ“Œ 329

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call β€œsymbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 20846 πŸ” 8645 πŸ’¬ 268 πŸ“Œ 714

The response on that hellsite compared to here is telling

25.01.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turned off autoplay. Saw a couple of posts today about news coming in.

I’m conflicted about wanting to not look at those images, but my body is already having a reaction from just reading the descriptions.

24.01.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I used to use harmony but that got annoying and I am pretty confident I can build a custom solution instead of buying something off the shelf.

24.01.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A breadboard sits on a wood tabletop. On the breadboard is a seeed studio XIAO esp32 c6 microcontroller. Connected to the microcontroller and hanging off the breadboard is a rectangular 1100 mAh battery. Also connected to the microcontroller are small tactile buttons laid out on the breadboard in a staggered manner. They are connected to microcontroller via jumper wires of different colors.

A breadboard sits on a wood tabletop. On the breadboard is a seeed studio XIAO esp32 c6 microcontroller. Connected to the microcontroller and hanging off the breadboard is a rectangular 1100 mAh battery. Also connected to the microcontroller are small tactile buttons laid out on the breadboard in a staggered manner. They are connected to microcontroller via jumper wires of different colors.

Working on a new project to control my media devices (AV receiver, TV, Fire TV dongle) and a couple of lights/scenes. Using ESPhome with commands going through home assistant and Bluetooth.

24.01.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
We need to talk about Big Tech's role in Fascism.
We need to talk about Big Tech's role in Fascism. YouTube video by Luke Miani

Watch this by @lukemiani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzHa...

23.01.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting concept!

23.01.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also good to have the banner be different colors so it’s more obvious at a glance

21.01.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Their feature-dev plugin is great at asking questions for under specified requirements. I wonder if that can be pulled out into a skill/sub-agent of its own…

21.01.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nix flakes on nixos but it’s definitely over engineered lol

09.01.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to seeing everything y’all build. Started playing with kcl recently…

06.01.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a very pervasive/invasive system

06.01.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, but you don’t need a green card for work authorization

05.01.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SSN is not tied to residency. International students and anyone with a work authorization can get an SSN

05.01.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe?πŸ€”

11.12.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
We need sunlight! Screenshot of sunlight calculator showing that there are 21 days until the sunlight increases, among other statistics.

We need sunlight! Screenshot of sunlight calculator showing that there are 21 days until the sunlight increases, among other statistics.

In case you need it: I made a calculator that tells you how long until the daylight increases again. Hang in there!

benholmen.com/sunlight

01.12.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing, thank you!

01.12.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Staggering releases by holidays is diabolical

28.11.2025 07:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Makes sense to me

26.11.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you host the flask app somewhere else and send the rfid data from esp to that app there?

26.11.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies for necroing this thread. I’ve started having conversations with engineers and leaders around this (specifically around AI coding tools) with the aim of synthesizing folks’ thoughts and experiences into an article. Would you be interested in talking about it?

26.11.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0