Catherine
@whitequark.org
catgirl shaped object
"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."
"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."
Pinned
Catherine
@whitequark.org
· Dec 23
this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it
- replacement for github: codeberg.org
- replacement for github pages: grebedoc.dev
- easy ci runners for codeberg: codeberg.org/whitequark/n...
- replacement for github: codeberg.org
- replacement for github pages: grebedoc.dev
- easy ci runners for codeberg: codeberg.org/whitequark/n...
Reposted by Catherine
dusty flutterer,
delicately alighting
gleans precious saline
delicately alighting
gleans precious saline
sipped
in the dark
salt nectar
#haiku #haiga #shahai
www.scientificamerican.com/article/phot...
A b&w trail cam image of a moose with small antler buds shows one eye as a white sphere with a whitw moth below it. Three more moths can be seen.
in the dark
salt nectar
#haiku #haiga #shahai
www.scientificamerican.com/article/phot...
A b&w trail cam image of a moose with small antler buds shows one eye as a white sphere with a whitw moth below it. Three more moths can be seen.
Moths Seen Drinking Moose Tears for the First Time Ever
Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs show only the second observation outside of that area
www.scientificamerican.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
dusty flutterer,
delicately alighting
gleans precious saline
delicately alighting
gleans precious saline
Reposted by Catherine
> Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories for about $7 billion, source says
Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for about $7 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
> Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
new episode of Crackhead Engineering crackhead.technology/contact-sale...
(although this entry is more "Crackhead Sales"... doesn't have the same ring to it, does it now?)
(although this entry is more "Crackhead Sales"... doesn't have the same ring to it, does it now?)
"Contact sales for complete package dimensions"
When the alternative to signing an NDA is
crackhead.technology
February 4, 2026 at 2:52 AM
new episode of Crackhead Engineering crackhead.technology/contact-sale...
(although this entry is more "Crackhead Sales"... doesn't have the same ring to it, does it now?)
(although this entry is more "Crackhead Sales"... doesn't have the same ring to it, does it now?)
Reposted by Catherine
for real, though. I'm looking for an affordable (definition flexible) place to live with these guys, starting march 1st. I can be normal. but I figure I might as well give the sales pitch of being weird and esoteric too. really any place that I can be reasonably comfortable with the cats works, tbh
any cat-friendly temples in the seattle area looking for an oracle
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
for real, though. I'm looking for an affordable (definition flexible) place to live with these guys, starting march 1st. I can be normal. but I figure I might as well give the sales pitch of being weird and esoteric too. really any place that I can be reasonably comfortable with the cats works, tbh
Reposted by Catherine
Reposted by Catherine
TIL about Autoconf quadrigraphs and I'm screaming
![8.1.6 Quadrigraphs
When writing an Autoconf macro you may occasionally need to generate special characters that are difficult to express with the standard Autoconf quoting rules. For example, you may need to output the regular expression ‘[^[]’, which matches any character other than ‘[’. This expression contains unbalanced brackets so it cannot be put easily into an M4 macro.
Additionally, there are a few m4sugar macros (such as m4_split and m4_expand) which internally use special markers in addition to the regular quoting characters. If the arguments to these macros contain the literal strings ‘-=<{(’ or ‘)}>=-’, the macros might behave incorrectly.
You can work around these problems by using one of the following quadrigraphs:
‘@<:@’
‘[’
‘@:>@’
‘]’
‘@S|@’
‘$’
‘@%:@’
‘#’
‘@{:@’
‘(’
‘@:}@’
‘)’
‘@&t@’
Expands to nothing.
Quadrigraphs are replaced at a late stage of the translation process, after m4 is run, so they do not get in the way of M4 quoting. For example, the string ‘^@<:@’, independently of its quotation, appears as ‘^[’ in the output.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g4kfvq6qttlpqiwfzmz2o73c/bafkreif2t6o6i6yyctzvhxzvhiufiyn6uwas6mgtsnvhi3xsnbel6umoue@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
TIL about Autoconf quadrigraphs and I'm screaming
Reposted by Catherine
they should pipe hard boiled eggs into every home like water
February 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM
they should pipe hard boiled eggs into every home like water
Reposted by Catherine
zun’s words on being a chuunibyou are more mission critical than ever in big 2026
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
zun’s words on being a chuunibyou are more mission critical than ever in big 2026
happy mailing list membership reminder day!
February 1, 2026 at 6:59 AM
happy mailing list membership reminder day!
going to submit a CrowdSupply application soon, stay tuned :3
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
going to submit a CrowdSupply application soon, stay tuned :3
i tried Dune 3D dune3d.org earlier today.
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace solvespace.com, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace solvespace.com, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
i tried Dune 3D dune3d.org earlier today.
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace solvespace.com, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace solvespace.com, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
Reposted by Catherine
my hit single The Proposal Is Simple And Inarguable: Every Dollar Over A Million Is Taxed In Literal Blood has been banned from radio for being too overtly sexual
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 AM
my hit single The Proposal Is Simple And Inarguable: Every Dollar Over A Million Is Taxed In Literal Blood has been banned from radio for being too overtly sexual
Reposted by Catherine
I have a blog now! Like an old school long form one!
Been meaning to set one up forever and then never got around to it until now.
Starting with something small, a little teardown of a cheap Color E-Ink Android tablet: timonsku.zip/bigme-b6-e-i...
Been meaning to set one up forever and then never got around to it until now.
Starting with something small, a little teardown of a cheap Color E-Ink Android tablet: timonsku.zip/bigme-b6-e-i...
Bigme B6 E-Ink Tablet teardown
For another project I was interested in looking at cheap E-Ink Android tablets and landed on the Bigme B6 Color. A 6" color E-Ink tablet with a 1072x1448 resolution screen. The black and white portion...
timonsku.zip
January 27, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I have a blog now! Like an old school long form one!
Been meaning to set one up forever and then never got around to it until now.
Starting with something small, a little teardown of a cheap Color E-Ink Android tablet: timonsku.zip/bigme-b6-e-i...
Been meaning to set one up forever and then never got around to it until now.
Starting with something small, a little teardown of a cheap Color E-Ink Android tablet: timonsku.zip/bigme-b6-e-i...
Reposted by Catherine
today on Crackhead Engineering, we have Winbond W25N02KVxxIR/U
Winbond W25N02KVxxIR/U
The Winbond W25Nxx memory IC series uses NAND flash where the Winbond W25Qxx series (and many compatible devices from other vendors) uses NOR flash. Despite this, the W25Nxx series uses a command set that seems compatible with the W25Qxx NOR flash command set... until you look closer…
crackhead.technology
January 27, 2026 at 4:25 AM
today on Crackhead Engineering, we have Winbond W25N02KVxxIR/U
Reposted by Catherine
stuff like ice is the entire reason palantir exists, I have genuinely no idea how you go to work there and go "this isn't what I signed up for"
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 PM
stuff like ice is the entire reason palantir exists, I have genuinely no idea how you go to work there and go "this isn't what I signed up for"
Reposted by Catherine
there will be an official Glasgow 1GBASE-T PHY board for playing with Ethernet, soon, too :D
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 AM
there will be an official Glasgow 1GBASE-T PHY board for playing with Ethernet, soon, too :D
Reposted by Catherine
hey, check this out
i dusted off my Glasgow RGMII Ethernet driver code (10/100 capable only) and with the latest changes in flow control, it effortlessly ~saturates the Ethernet link both ways, with a userspace driver running on CPython:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ […]
i dusted off my Glasgow RGMII Ethernet driver code (10/100 capable only) and with the latest changes in flow control, it effortlessly ~saturates the Ethernet link both ways, with a userspace driver running on CPython:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 AM
hey, check this out
i dusted off my Glasgow RGMII Ethernet driver code (10/100 capable only) and with the latest changes in flow control, it effortlessly ~saturates the Ethernet link both ways, with a userspace driver running on CPython:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ […]
i dusted off my Glasgow RGMII Ethernet driver code (10/100 capable only) and with the latest changes in flow control, it effortlessly ~saturates the Ethernet link both ways, with a userspace driver running on CPython:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ […]
Reposted by Catherine
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
Reposted by Catherine
"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 AM
"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."
Reposted by Catherine
i've lost it after reverse-engineering this library for a few hours crackhead.technology/anjoy-ssc338...
crackhead.technology
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
i've lost it after reverse-engineering this library for a few hours crackhead.technology/anjoy-ssc338...
Reposted by Catherine
me: "I feel like if I don't reverse-engineer at least one or two dogshit embedded device per week, I'll go into withdrawal"
her: "this is like drug addiction, but counterproductive"
her: "this is like drug addiction, but counterproductive"
January 23, 2026 at 8:39 PM
me: "I feel like if I don't reverse-engineer at least one or two dogshit embedded device per week, I'll go into withdrawal"
her: "this is like drug addiction, but counterproductive"
her: "this is like drug addiction, but counterproductive"
Reposted by Catherine
want to design some hardware, but as a game? there is now an Amaranth leaderboard in https://latchup.app/
January 24, 2026 at 3:21 PM
want to design some hardware, but as a game? there is now an Amaranth leaderboard in https://latchup.app/
i've lost it after reverse-engineering this library for a few hours crackhead.technology/anjoy-ssc338...
crackhead.technology
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
i've lost it after reverse-engineering this library for a few hours crackhead.technology/anjoy-ssc338...
Reposted by Catherine
[POV: the year is 2006. you are watching "Crazy Frog — Axel F" on your Sony Ericsson K510i in a very crunchy 3gp file using its loudspeaker while on a break in high school]
(i spent like 30 minutes going through codec settings to make this an […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
(i spent like 30 minutes going through codec settings to make this an […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
[POV: the year is 2006. you are watching "Crazy Frog — Axel F" on your Sony Ericsson K510i in a very crunchy 3gp file using its loudspeaker while on a break in high school]
(i spent like 30 minutes going through codec settings to make this an […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
(i spent like 30 minutes going through codec settings to make this an […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Reposted by Catherine
i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller