Having spent a few hours catching up on allegations and how concerns and grievances have been handled by #Fosstodon admins so far I wonder if it's time for my first #FediMove to an instance more aligned with my values (and one that lets me emit the occasional toot in 🇩🇪).
Problem is, I don't know where to go 😓
My dream instance has always been chaos.social - any #recommendations for an #instance along similar lines?
Things that are most important to me to find in my local timeline are #Makers, #Music, #Sustainability, #Wildlife, #Geese and #Goats and a ton of other things, so an instance predominantly talking about #FOSS has never been the perfect fit for me, and I've noticed I spend less and less time on my local feed.
Funnily that list was partly based on (and massively expanded upon) a makers list I compiled last year, but had abandoned. It's a small (Makers) world 😀
I think I might eventually move to chaos.social as an instance after all, as it might cover my non-making interests just a little bit more and as a bonus is hosted in Germany.
makersocial.online looks like a really cool place though, and @splicer is a great guy!
I'm super chuffed that I've just found the adorable @smolrobots on the #Fediverse!
(I'm a little bit late to the party)
Go and give them a follow, they could deal with some #fedilove - and you may need some more #smol#robots in your life too!
On a side note: Having beautiful #ALTtext on images has the nice side effect that unconventional Mastodon media browsers like mine get to display them in all their glory (in addition to making them accessible to more hoomans).
Yes, I'm using the Mastodon #Python library to grab media posts from a personal timeline (as I've done here), federated timeline, or a hashtag (uncomment as needed).
One of these days I'd really like to attempt to replace the Pi Zero with a #RaspberryPiPicoW and redoing this in #MicroPython.
I did have a quick go last autumn trying to modify #Pimoroni's "Inky Frame" code to make it work with my "Inky Developer", but couldn't get it to work at the time.
Iirc I somehow got lost between the InkyFrame driver and the PicoGraphics library.
@gadgetoid, would you know perhaps if anyone's used the InkyDeveloper with MicroPython succesfully?
Meanwhile #Kratky#hydroponics happened. I use the most DIY system possible: bottles, 3d printed inserts that allow refilling, and where I didn't use inserts, there are pieces of disposable straw.
Growing on South side open balcony in 30+C is quite different from grow lights inside they use in the videos. Those plants drink a lot, and some liquid evaporates, so I need to refill a lot and designed and printed a tiny funnel to fit the straw (not pictured). #3dPrinting
My LED Orb project that I wrote up for @makemagazine is currently on the website with no paywall at https://makezine.com/projects/orb-sessed-led-sphere/ if anyone feels like tackling a fiddly, challenging, time-consuming project with a really cool end result! I'm very proud of the design as well as the very high pun-to-word-count ratio in the article.
It does look complicated, but it's actually a super straightforward recipe that looks and tastes like something that takes infinetely more time and skill to make. Also perhaps the easier to photograph food of all I regularly cook 😅
Also perfect #mealprep for this super stressful and full day at work.
Made my second sling bag in two days. This one is a "half-moon" bag I made following a YouTube video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mub9Kbs3LE) It was surprisingly straightforward to sew, and a good opportunity to use my recent impulse purchase of floral canvas fabric (it was on sale!) The only feature I don't love is that the lining is finished with binding on the inside, but no one else will see that part. #sewing#sewingproject
tomorrow @ecken and i will be on the hackster cafe with @alexglow to chat about a few recent and upcoming projects that use the @adafruit rp2040 prop-maker feather and #circuitpython