01: a new year and back working on my microcontrollers - After a little nostalgia for vintage video electronics, of course.
02: janky on my desk - Debugging a testing rig including a master, a slave, and a mock SolArk inverter.
03: costing me time instead of saving me time - Large language models don't actually save much time when it comes to developing extremely complex features.
04: working serial parser - With the help of pseudoephedrine, I finally get something built broken by ChatGPT to work as desired.
05: long strips of onion - The way I like vegetables to be in the food that I cook.
06: mushrooms and beer - And I find some free firewood too.
07: 32 bit trouble - Microcontrollers that are difficult to enslave.
08: mysteriously smashed window - Gretchen apparently drove home with it that way yesterday. Also, a five hour dinner party with Ray & Nancy.
09: Gretchen makes the little kids cry - They should've known better than to ask her to read one of her poems about a dog.
10: near-success with a surface mount component - A couple traces delaminated, and it didn't seem to survive for more than one successful test, but things went perhaps a little better than expected.
11: the scenario of when the slave is reset - Dealing with exotic edge cases in my ESP8266 Remote code. Also, I take advantage of a recent thaw to gather more firewood. And I make a soup containing red cabbage.
12: passages through the dead-limb walls - Stopping to break off the lower limbs of white pines I pass. Also, a painting of Charlotte.
13: a better path to the Gullies Trail - I come back with the chainsaw for a second round of big-tree cutting, but then suffer from having eaten too little earlier.
14: dry white pine before January rains - Now I have so much ready-to-burn firewood that I have to put it in the woodshed.
15: now I can change my firmware remotely - I add a great new feature to my ESP8266 Remote Control system allowing me to change its code across the internet.
16: enoying culture for Gretchen's birthday - We have Mediterranean food and see a play in Manhattan.
17: a snowy day in MoMA - We see the Ruth Asawa show and then eat vegan bar food before returning home.
18: confirmation through a reboot - I find a way to show a complete series of messages from an ESP8266 being restarted or flashed over the air.
19: wanting an I²C bootloader - It would be amazing, but getting one doesn't look like it will be easy.
20: a new way to wind down call with my brother - I start making a BLT and describing the ingredients.
21: LED blink pattern feedback - It doesn't provide much information, but it's enough to make some progress.
22: tooth cleaning, sushi, and bagels - An outing to West Hurley amid continued work on my I²C bootloader project
23: sandwiches and gossip in New Paltz - A lot of information, but not too much.
24: repurposed tea water - When a group of neighbors do not come back to our house for coffee, Gretchen uses the hot water to make ravioli.
25: big snow and capacitors - Gretchen gets a technical term in Spelling Bee before I do while a big snowstorm rages outside.
26: two hours of snow shoveling - What it took to remove what had been as much as 18 inches of snow.
27: constant unsuccessful battle to get comfortable - I can't even take a nice relaxing hot bath without a state trooper incident out in front of the house.
28: another worrisome lump - This one is near Neville's chin, and merely to investigate cost over $400.
29: the hell of a dull hacksaw - What I had to do because I'd forgotten to bring a pipe cutter.
30: Labiahead at Assembly - A big white crowd on a cold winter night.
31: mysterious economic model in Midtown, Kingston - We attend a packed opening for a photography exhibit.