Notices by Michael F. Lamb (datagrok@cybre.space)

🛎️ Website update: finally revised a short article that critiques Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (that I am a member of) for their strategy of shunning proprietary software:
https://datagrok.org/gpl/shun/

🤔 The circuitry inside a Casio watch isn't too complex, maybe I could measure it and manufacture a replacement with more features.

Oops somebody already did it! Way better than I would have!

The "Pluto" watch, which re-purposes the case and LCD from a Casio F91-W, includes a compass, infrared programming, RTTTL ringtone (musical) alarms, generates RFC 6238 one-time passwords, open source, and runs for a year on a standard watch battery! Wow!! 😮

more cybrepnuk than Pebble imho

https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto

To do:
- clean up my public git repos
- blast out some resumes and cover letters
- more polish on the website

Many people have said "no interviewer looks at your website," and that's mostly true, but at my last interview there was one person who did! And turned that into an interview question! 😬💦

So I kinda want it to be, at least, not old bitrotting garbage

"Programming is Forgetting: Towards a new Hacker Ethic" by @aparrish (Open Hardware Summit 2016 Keynote)

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

As an early-'80s kid who was enamored by the "Jargon File" and reverent descriptions of Hacker Culture, now too often disappointed by what grew out of it, this talk resonated with me so much. Highly recommended.

Thank you @catonano for the link

Well it's not by a long shot cleaned up to the point that it's easy to use yet but

I have at least finally updated makebakery to un-break its demo site 👍

makebakery is a static site generator built mostly on GNU Make that does some clever things to allow for toggle-able makefile modules that enable a variety of source and output formats.

http://datagrok.github.io/makebakery/

Deploying the sure-fire job-landing big guns:

the very-obviously-authored-in-LaTeX résumé

and résumé with two é's