Marc Nause [mstdn] @nause_marc@mastodon.xyz

"A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good"

I was thrilled when Google introduced Material Design, but things really went downhill during the past one or two years. Luckily I rarely use any of the Google apps.

Inspired by #Revision2021 I recovered the only code I wrote in the last century that has survived until today. It's nothing more but a bitmap and some text to speech (via SAM lib I ripped from "War Games"). Unfortunately some questionable humor forbids sharing the program. #c64

Exercise 2: Fill an EEPROM with 8 Radar Rat Race ROM images and run it by putting it in the Super Snapshot V5. I hope the #c64 police won't come for me. I think I should get a more appropriate solution. 😂

The best thing about being an adult is getting what you wished for as a child. For me it was an EPROM programmer. So today I am having a little bit of fun. Exercise 1: Copying the EPROM of my Super Snapshot v5 to an EEPROM. #SSv5 #c64

Excuse me, Sir, is that anti-static packaging? #EEPROM

#minecraft

Every winter I move the orange tree from the balcony to the staircase and I am rewarded with blossoms and fruits. Citrus plants rock! 😊 #urbangardening

Cheer up! #cctv

No. #osm

I love the new charging level log feature of #Gadgetbridge 0.55.0 app! I can tell when I went running with the GPS of my #AmazfitBip turned on by looking at the graph.

So Google basically lets the code of the #AOSP apps rot until they are not able to fix it anymore!?

#Android #bitRot

2020 has been a disappointment so far. I'll just set up a decentralized #cccamp to cheer myself up. Node 1 is up already. #rC3

Rattle! Rattle! What is this? It's my copy of #Paprium and of course the useless metal shield which covered the epoxy mess fell off.

I went for a short walk to the nearest mailbox and I carried my #card10 with me to get a feeling for the number of people who actually use the German Corona Warn App. I was pleasantly surprised.

This is what #wikipedia looked like when I was a kid.

Received and assembled my #Anavi Technology Fume Extractor today. Now I just need to burn in the air quality sensor and find something to solder in order to test it. #ESP8266 #OpenSourceHardware #OpenHardware

"Pus shit application is the worst no good yuck"

Messages from Google with reviews like this let me appreciate that #fdroid does not feature any user reviews. Entries in my app's bugtracker are usually much more constructive than most reviews on the Play Store.

I am seriously thinking about deleting my Google Developer account.

I just realized that the design of the shirt I am wearing today has similarities with #software. Looks all sharp from the surface, but once you look closer you only find the small miserable truth and it is all held together by nothing but a little bit of string. #dev #engineering

Probably the most 90s thing I have seen all week. #Volkswagen #T3 #Helmet

I am currently reading "The Cruise of the Snark" by Jack London. In one chapter he talks about Ernest Darling who seems to have been quite a character and a kind of proto-hippie ahead of his time.