Chinmay Pendharkar

A google sheets chart

A google sheets chart, this has a big jump down

A google sheets chart, this bounces back up

A google sheets chart, the trend continues

TIL: The "AVERAGE" function in google sheets (and probably excel) handles things correctly when some cells in the range are missing.

This means you can have (for example) a 7-day moving average, centered on the current data, that includes the next 3 days that don't exist, then update when they do!

💿Veridis Quo//Daft Punk🤖 This melody is so nostalgic🥹🎶. And it's great fun to filter the sound of my Sewing-Gurdy with my mini Theremin! (Talk-Wha Filter this time 👌😎) #hurdygurdy #sewinggurdy #bardco... TikTok video by Gabriel / SingerSoundSystem

There's a chap on TikTok who has built a custom instrument out of a hurdy-gurdy and a Singer sewing machine (plus an attached theremin) which he uses for Daft Punk covers and they are genuine bangers www.tiktok.com/@singersound...

Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x A powerful new RISC-V microcontroller with mostly open RTL

Interested in trying out a Baochip-1x? The 'dabao' evaluation board is now taking pre-orders on Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao

GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs - dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Shout out to github.com/dani-garcia/..., which:

* Is a Rust compatible server for the Bitwarden password manager
* Is easy to self-host
* Still works with the official desktop/mobile/browser apps, which also work to store/sync TOTP

It means I now have password syncing, across devices, self hosted!

The madlads at @pimoroni.com overclocked an RP2350 microcontroller from the base clock of 150 Mhz to a whopping 861.6 MHz.

It looks like 400-500 MHz can be stable on most Pico 2s, which is still wild.

See: learn.pimoroni.com/article/over...

In case anyone else needs to know:

Using Apple Virtualization with UTM with a linux guest (and maybe only with bridged networking+VLANs?), TCP Segmentation Offload makes the interface crawl. Installing ethtool and running:

sudo ethtool -K YOUR_INTERFACE sg off tso off

makes everything fast again.

Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day.

I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep

labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?"

The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always

Deep Blue We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

Obsidian uses local files, so all your standard terminal commands work for editing/moving/searching/etc

Obsidian CLI adds everything else:

- interacting with the UI
- internal functions e.g. base queries, orphans, etc
- devtools, console, screenshots, eval, etc

See the CLI docs!

Also shout out to the @nordicsemi.com PPK2. Just a generally pleasant tool to use, and less than like 100 EUR. No brainer to have around for stuff like this.

A text slide saying "turing complete things" and listing: C/C++ Arm Assembly Code PowerPoint Excel The x86 “mov” instruction

Towards fun topics in teaching computer architecture (this 5 min video on powerpoint as a computer is worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjx...)

Particle Comes Full Circle, Becomes Part of Digi — Whose XBee Inspired the Company's Founding "The Spark Core [was] heavily inspired by Digi's XBee," Particle's CEO Zach Supalla explains — and now Particle itself is a Digi company.

Particle has announced that it has been acquired by Digi — the very company that inspired CEO and founder Zach Supalla to create Particle in the first place.

And yes, we’re hiring!

oxide.computer/careers

i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring

the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily

I've been sitting with the discomfort here a bunch, and to me this is it, right? What is being suggested is that I engage in an act of self-flagellation (resolving thousands of lines of merge conflicts by hand) because the richest man in the world uses some of the same underlying tech to peddle CSAM

Resistors soldered to the edge of a TSSOP package, with a bodge wire connected to them.

It has been 0 days since I forgot i2c pullups. 🥲

Hackware - Jan 2026 · Luma It's 2026 🎉 Hackware is a monthly meetup for developers and enthusiasts to share hacks and developments in the hardware, electronics, and IoT scene, promote…

Our monthly electronics/hardware meetup is back this week. We'll be at @hackerspace.sg, and we still have a slot available if you'd like to share your project/hack! luma.com/ux511670

@oxide.computer announces their new desktop sized "mini fridge" rack

A conversation with Gemini 3, after it suggested an MDB pipeline that would attempt to read through a BAR (!)

The state of LLMs in 2026, in all of its weird glory: at once impressive, disconcerting, acutely limited -- and unfailingly polite

Bells don't work: Keep up on YouTube channels with RSS and Slack YouTube video by Chris Gammell

Perhaps 2026 should be a year of less algorithmic discovery. Here's a start

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Oh...

AVR programmer attached to a circuit board

AVR programmer attached to a circuit board

It's not stupid if it works 😅

Avoiding soldering down a connector for the one time operation of burning fuses, and loading bootloader/firmware for some UsbGpib adapters.

github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib

I wished someone showed me this about I2C before. During any kind of data transfer, the SDA line should never change while the SCL line is high, only when it's low. So, it changing when it's high is a "Start" or "Stop" condition. You do not have to pair "Start" and "Stop"

Look, I know you think that @oxide.computer only builds computers to turn interesting bugs into podcasts, but that's obviously not true: we also write blog entries

As of Obsidian 1.10 the app becomes usable after initialization and core plugins, the rest loads in the background.

If you're on iCloud make sure you set Obsidian's folder to "Keep downloaded"

Using Claude in Chrome to navigate out the Cloudflare dashboard I just had my first success using a browser agent - in this case the Claude in Chrome extension - to solve an actual problem. A while ago I set …

Had my first successful experience using a browser agent to solve a real problem - in this case I had the Claude in Chrome extension help me find some configuration I had lost deep within the Cloudflare control panel simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/22/...

just realized only now that "graphite" means "writing rock"

what's one improvement you'd like to see in @obsidian.md in 2026?

Peter "Bobricius" Misenko's Self-Charging LED Necklace is the "Ultimate Useless Gadget" Energy-harvesting three-component gadget uses a through-hole LED as both a power and light source.

Peter "Bobricius" Misenko has released what he claims could be the "ultimate useless gadget" — a self-charging LED necklace.

people are trying to convince me that linux is real and good, but how could an all-loving operating system allow and create such suffering?

A blue square that says "Job Opportunity" from Ferrous Systems. Text says: Hiring: Research Engineer We're hiring for a rare role: Join us to formalize the semantics of Rust on a real, multi-year project.You'll work with leading experts, contribute to the foundations of the language, and can also be used as an opportunity to pursue a PhD alongside the work.

🦀 A unique #opportunity for #RustLang enthusiasts and verification researchers: Join us for a three-year project formalizing a Rust subset – and pursue a PhD if you choose.

Interested? 👉 ferrous-systems.com/blog/researc...