New year, new plans! If you don't know me yet: hi! I'm Béla, The Developer Guy. I teach, code and make fun little #opensource projects. (most of them involve some electronics, but not all of them) You can find devlogs and/or tutorials about them on my YouTube channel: If you like my designs, you can download the gerbers or order one too here: (I don't plan to sell them on Tindie) Also, a live, online Python quickstart course is on its way, it will launch in this spring. 2023 is finally over. I say finally, because it was a terrible year for me, with a lot of downs. The only ups were You guys. I met some fantastic people here, some of you helped with ideas or found some errors in my design. Thanks! I don't check my follower count very often, and I was really surprised to see: over 1100 people thought these stuff are cool. And you all deserve some content/entertainment! My 2 mains are Python and Embedded C. Totally different worlds, so sorry if one type of content is more dominant from time to time, I try to balance things. Last year I started working on Stonks, a crypto-mock project. You can get it here: My goal is to make a practical tutorial project, without all the ultra-beginner stuff. A full-featured, tkinter based GUI, with charts, realtime "real" trading (the prices are fetched from coingecko!) to have a sane goal. And the electronics. Sheesh, I have too many projects! Some of them are production-ready, like the li-ion charger or USB-C breakout, but the others need some work. Lampy, my 10W dual-tone USB lamp is more like a product, feature requests are welcome. Anyone can buy a dimmable video lamp, where is the fun is I just buy one? (also go buy one with open firmware) But the STM32Duinos are practical jokes and tools in the meantime. It's 2024, even Arduino switched to all-32bit. Rest in peace, AVR8, I loved you all, but time flies! But the hobby scene tends to stuck in the past, because there are tons of tutorials for the old boards, and the new stuff is scary, right? Until you get a decent quickstart tutorial, like the "STM32 demystified" series. This is a "conversion therapy" from Arduino to more professional stuff, but with detailed explanation. The playlist is here: I will have some more projects too, so if you follow me, expect similar stuff in the future. Also, as a small channel, I struggle a LOT. Maybe YouTube is dying, maybe just the topic is not so popular, maybe the format is wrong. Educational stuff is not compatible with Shorts/TikTok, but making an 1-hour video essay is also impractical for these kinds of stuff. the 5-15 minutes is just not trendy, but I try to make value, not be trendy. In the meantime my videos don't pop up enough in recommendation (or recommended after the wrong type of videos), so you can help a lot by sharing them. I do have a Patreon: - but only 2 people are in the paid section and I don't really tell you "go throw some cash in there", because I'll try to change the pace. I hate having a tight schedule and ship a video every week. I tried that, but this type of content is not so easy to make. I don't have an editor (and couldn't afford to pay one at this phase anyway), I'm a one-man-army. YouTube penalizes this, but I prefer making factually correct, enjoyable videos, and release when it's actually ready to be published. I saw Nile Red's latest "purple gold" video and gave me hope. Of course I won't get 9 million views in 10 days, but I hope there is place for creators with slower pace. Also, desperately open for collabs! I couldn't find a fellow maker with similar interests, so ping me if you want to make some stuff together! If you have any remarks, the comment section is open. Have a happy, and successful 2024! 🫡

@peach2k2 Curly braces strictly define the scope. Whitespaces don’t. It’s easy to give a “format document” command, and boom! It’s nice and readable with braces. Mess up editing with whitespaces, and you’ll never find the end of the struggle.

@FableFox @pikuma Loool, haven’t heard about this! That’s why I will never ever accept ebooks with any type of DRM. No “only readable in app”, no “we can do whatever we want” in the license.

@kai_fall The Zone is full of fantastic devs, but often looked down because they are too busy to survive.

@FableFox @pikuma Amazon did the 1984 if I remember correctly.

RT @miniapeur:

600 mg acetylcysteine? 1000 mg vitamin-C? Nah! 6000 g felis cattus. Best medicine ever.

@jesx64 That’t what you get for buying Sony products. Even my new camera is Panasonic.

@mrioszbo There’s no such thing as “enough mugs”. Mine has a favorite and only uses that, yet the cabinet is full.

It’s Saturday, almost 3 PM. Finally got up. Of course I started feeling shit at Friday night, and it seems I’ll be fine on Monday. I WANT MY WEEKEND BACK! One shall be sick on workdays and not on the weekends!

@ludwigABAP It’s 2025. Every household has broadband internet and a computer. The web is full with cool stuff. Be happy that today’s kids can finally learn useful stuff instead of wasting their time. I envy them.

RT @fishPointer: good morning

That’s totally not what I said. I said math does zero effort to make it generally readable. Instead of that it excessively uses symbols. Just for example, which one is better? Σ or sum()? For pure math guys, sure, sigma. But for everyone else? That’s why most people find no joy in math. (besides being taught in the worst possible way) Hyeroglyphs instead of something clear, especially in a lot of textbooks. Sure, some basic and everyday stuff can and should be expressed by symbols, but an other example: my number+graph theory textbook was A/5 in size, but took an hour to read every page. No verbose explanation, but: “So the problem is the following: [2 lines of symbols, without introducing them] and [expanded to 4 lines] therefore [few closing lines of symbols] □” And the “This is an exercise left to the reader.” on every page just because the writer has zero teaching skills. If coding was like this, no one would do it. Possible, but impractical. It would benefit everyone if math was more “accessible”. Maybe more papers would be implemented in real-life applications, more citations, more advancements. Also, anyone can criticise Chinese, because it turns out, there are more efficient and user-friendly ways to write text! Surprise-surprise, they even made a thing called “simplified Chinese”, and most people can write latin characters because it is just better. So yeah, I can point out that while Chinese texts tend to be much shorter, it adds unnecessary complexity, and the same goes with math.

@CrispinCowan0 @lcamtuf I said something, but it seems like understanding plain English language is beyond your abilities. (just proved my point by being super ignorant)

@CrispinCowan0 @lcamtuf I expected more from a PhD, not a retarded strawman.

@purchase0264 @awesomekling I’m not expert on this exact suggestion (okay, I don’t know even the context), but a new JS framework every week is just too much.

@purchase0264 @awesomekling I never said “reinvent the wheel” in the process. I said rigidly doing the same things without a change just because it seems it works is not an argument. Coal power plants worked. Horse carriages worked. And whatever software stuff “worked” can have the same fate.

@purchase0264 @awesomekling Oh, no, someone may have a suggestion that could improve things! That’s forbidden!

@CrispinCowan0 @lcamtuf No, that’s what you math nerds never get. Math is nice, unnecessary “abstraction” with hard-to-read syntax is not. I don’t look down on non-tech people if they don’t understand something, but math guys always claim “skill issue” without the slightest bit of introspection.

@CrispinCowan0 @lcamtuf Yet math makes you learn what x means to understand its meaning for everything, and coding is getting so simple kids can understand it after learning the most basic parts. Math doesn’t try to be expressive, math wants to be seen as magic runes.