Noel Romey

Also today, in coding news, I learned about csharp c# floats and spans. I'd heard of float numbers and span elements in html, but spans and floats for fast procefssing of memory, had no idea they existed. In JJ Flex, since we're creating our own DSP chain cause there's no other way to make this complicated junk to work, it's gotta process things fast. Spans and floats can read and process data in ram super quick, perfect if you're in the dot net environment and donot't want to deal with C or CPlusplus. Can't wait to use the chain we're building for the first time to basically remove noise via computer, i.e. off of the raw radio data. Super cool stuff.

Never thought this would happen in my lifetime, but I just got a slew of notifications from my dishwasher of all times. First, a software update, click to confirm ... glad it told me first sad I don't get a changelog. Second, rinse aid is empty, something that would normally be a blinky light I'd never see. IOT devices can be hazardous, but there are also major accessibility wins too.

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And until this, I'd planned to order a Whopper for lunch.

7300 consignment of the 7300 at hro is still there. Can't decide if I wanna pull the trigger or not. I keep telling myself that I can sell it back.

provided I am able to gather enough data to write my stupid performance for this year, I'm planning the last sprint before release. This one's probably going to finish my foundational updates for JJ Flexible Radio Access. Then after that, I can't wait to plan and code the truly groundbreaking stuff. People keep bringing up urls for Kiwi SDRS. I can't wait to open and add a Kiwi as a favorite receiver in the app. Gonna flippin rock.O

I thought it was done raining so I took a trash can to the street. It's raining and blowing again. Luckily the can's heavy so shouldn't blow all over the place. I sure hope this is the case. Picking up those heavy bags would be a pain.

The closest to me base for work is in central Virginia. They've just alerted us that the base will be closed for severe weather. We're pretty much through it here, but I don't doubt that it's gonna be rough in central va tomorrow. #tnwx #vawx K

Gusts of wind spinning up. I don't have a weather station here yet. Heavy rain, frequent lightning, no rotation. East Memphis. #tnwx

Next step, sound design. I now have a hidden tool in the application that I can fire and you can too if you wanna find it in the source Allows me to design sounds using the NSound library and then pass them to my assistant for use in the application's earcons. NAudio is a really powerful library, and I'll be using it extensively as we move sound around, duplicate it, mangle it etc., later. :D.

Well cool, the connection profiler/test module helped to track things down to a naughty smartlink connect, and an auth that when trying to use a previously used authentication token, would just fail and require a reconnect.

It's really bad when you've tried three implementation plans to fix abug I've been worrying about for days, days I say. Luckily both Claude and I have not given up and we're making strides to a fix. In an accessibility first application, losing focus is inexcusable. That's all there is to it, even if you lose focus for 5 seconds, it's liable to be confusing to someone. There's no need for that, so I swear that before I release this thing, I will fix it, because connecting to your radio should be as easy as turning on your radio no matter how you do it, connecting locally or when the radio is on another coast or around the world. I wish more cared about this crap.

Four bugs fixed, 14 features added. Hoping that after test and any required fixes, I'll finally be able to release a post wpf update to testers. I say I'm releasing to testers, but I'm really just manually building setup files and adding them to github. I'll post the whole changelog here in case you guys are bored and want to read about what we're doing. Gotta say, my changelogs are some of the most unique out there, I add humor and warmth because ... why not make it interesting to find out how to use things. Really, I need to start work on a wiki for this thing or a help system or both. I hate writing documentation, but there is so much you need to learn before using this thing. It's simple to use, but lots of different keystrokes out there. I eed podcasts most likely.

I learned an interesting thing while working with an AI agent to help me transcribe portions of a terribly formatted pdf so it could be transcribed. I can't go into details on what it was, but I was way more successful asking it to extract the document page by page, sometimes paragraph by paragraph. Apparently, because large language models look for patterns in documents like these, you're literally going to get an approximation of the document. Without processing the document piece by piece, I got a literal hallucination of a document including topics that were similar to the doc, but they were hallucinated patterns rather than the exact text. It was a lot of work, but I was able to transcribe mathematical info including descriptions of graphs and it turned out well. Exactly why collaboration with an littlem is much more effective than expecting it just to spit something out.

Why is thrive messenger the hot new thing in the blindness community? Very confused.

BBC radio 3 unwind now allows streaming outside the UK. Not sure if it's by design or if you can stream it web wise, but as long as I travel virtually to the UK every month I can keep using BBC sounds to listen to it and it doesn't require connection to a vpn. Handy for insomnia nights like this one. Lovely stuff.

Well, that's pretty neat. I was talking to Claude about how I can get a screen shot of what it needs. I went an d grabbed a python library, wrote a python app to grab a screen shot, convreted it to PNG and is analyzing it. Oh yeah, and it also launched JJ Flex.

dude, I just figured out how to add support for FREEDV2 on Flex using JJ Flex. It will be accessible, will install the freedv2 system onto your pi, and activate then use the node. #hamradio #flexradio O

Someone just told me "Sup OG!" as he walked by me in the waiting room. I'm not sure how to feel. Lol. Am I OG material? Probably I guess, I'm a generation old. Weird man.K

I've not watched any olympics until today in front of tv at medical center. I like summer games more I think.O

Welcome to the afternoon. Random drug screen for work. Found the place, super easy with Uber. I have nothing to fear, but this is a pain.