Make your Pimoroni pHAT HD LED matrix into a service on a local web server so you can control it from your IoT hub: github.com/emceeaich…

Much old-school internet love to the person filing bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug…. requesting restoring Gopher as a protocol handler.

I give you a topical Good Place fic.

Warnings for the daily business of the Bad Place and the fate of dead billionaires.

Learned that you now can change your avatar’s name on Second Life.

The good: no judges or notes from medical gatekeepers.

The bad: just like Real Life, name changes cost money, and “some systems will not reflect your new name for up to 24 hours.”

The camera I’m using to photograph tonight’s full Moon, a Canon PowerShot G9, is old enough that I can’t plug the SD card directly into my computer. I have to use a USB cable to connect to the computer.

I’m looking at the Hugo Awards finalist list and it’s going to be another year of “how the heck do I decide between all these great books?”

Margaret Burbidge, the astronomer who’s work demonstrated how we are all made of “star-stuff” has passed at the age of 100. Here’s a celebration of her life and work from last year in Sky & Telescope.

The past few evenings:

QotD: “I decided not to include cladding because cladding is for losers.”

Friday night: Venus in the Pleiades. It’ll be cool.

Cynthia and I learned about one-duvet-per-person on our trips to Germany and Scandinavia and switched at home a couple of years ago. It’s totally comfy and doesn’t interfere with being affectionate.

Tonight’s waxing gibbous moon.

You can see the fall walls of some craters on the terminator peeking out the lunar dawn.

Photo from a iPhone held to the lens of binoculars.

Ty Segall covers Nilsson Schmilsson. The buzzed-out-and-echoey version of “Jump Into the Fire” is 👩‍🍳💋.

Lying about capablities in order to boost some executive’s quarterly bonus, and it’s making a public health emergency worse.

Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler in Mountain View closed today after 75 years.

It was one of the last of the “steakburger” joints where you ordered your burger at the register and dressed it from a bar of condiments.

If you worked in Downtown Mountain View, it was a popular place for lunch.

The last surviving one I know of is Kirk’s on Bascom in Campbell. There’s a dentist’s office over where the Kirk’s in Cupertino used to be.

It’s trans day of visibility.

So hi, fellow trans people, we are still here. I’m tired but determined. Stay alive. I love you all.

Because importing and transforming the data and doing the analysis should result in a lovely chart. #SpreadsheetLife

This is a ridiculously cool STEM-at-home/unschooling activity, making tiny gliders you walk around the house with a sheet of cardboard (or scavenged election sign) as an air scoop.

Rest in power, Lorena Borjas ⚧️✊

Borjas worked in Queens, NY organizing and helping protect trans and other queer people.

The story of how Santa Clara County’s public health officer got the Bay Area to agree on the country’s first shelter-in-place order.

Another reason consumer goods need to be labled for contents: people are making facemasks out of vacuum cleaner bags with HEPA filter fabric. In Europe, the ones with biocides in the fabric are labled. In the US they are not.

I’m helping @WisConSF3 implement a virtual convention in May. Please, if you’re willing, share the ouches you’re experiencing as you’re working, learning, and living on video.

Valley Medical Foundation (San Jose, CA) instructions on sewing surgical masks.

A cartoon furry just popped up in my Trello board to warn me about an outage.

OoCQotD

“Canadians are being reminded that 2m separation is about the length of a hockey stick plus the arm stretching it out. Avoid being hooked by COVID-19.” – Context is watching YouTube video of last seasons hockey fights