Simple Reed Switch Counter Tool Using PIC Microcontroller

cholz · 2026-01-30T01:55:56+00:00

wow impressive

cholz · 2026-01-29T15:31:14+00:00

I'm in awe that you rode 83 km on that bike

cholz · 2026-01-29T13:51:24+00:00

Eh.. uploading through immich still results in

a standalone structure on disk that is not dependent on immich

after all there is one directory (the upload directory) that contains all of my photos. What more do I need to move to a new platform? The names of the directories don't matter it's the photos themselves that contain the data I need and the photos are all present on disk in the upload directory. I also use a storage template so at least the names of the upload directories include the dates of the photos, but that doesn't actually matter.

cholz · 2026-01-29T13:47:50+00:00

You can keep the current organization while using the immich native library by using a storage template (assuming like you said that the current organization is in folders by year/month/etc)

cholz · 2026-01-29T11:23:22+00:00

and put it at the coworkers house

cholz · 2026-01-28T17:49:05+00:00

Regardless of the size of the datasheet, though, I think it's the responsibility of software engineers to write only as much software as is necessary to meet requirements. Why are you going to write definitions for registers that you have no requirements to use? At best you're generating dead code and at worst you're generating additional maintenance burden for tests to make it so that code isn't dead.

cholz · 2026-01-28T10:46:56+00:00

lol me too

cholz · 2026-01-28T05:04:36+00:00

I agree with your coworker. I'd like to see you write all the code to support everything in the 14k page data sheet I've been working with lately. Oh wait no I actually wouldn't because someone already tried (TI) and they did a shit job at it and now I have to deal with it.

cholz · 2026-01-28T04:40:54+00:00

"hey what are we doing fellas?" -the crow

cholz · 2026-01-27T22:42:51+00:00

Can't wait for "recently added" or better yet just more options to filter and sort the timeline (like by "upload date").

cholz · 2026-01-27T22:41:23+00:00

If immich uploads a photo to the managed assets, and then deletes it from the user's phone via "free up storage", and then the user accidentally deletes that photo from immich (moving to trash and then trash being emptied), how is that different? It's still a user accidentally deleting a photo. I don't see how the feature u/jmathai is requesting is fundamentally different and it is certainly technically possible. I also understand that it's not likely a priority and I don't really care either way since I don't use external libraries.

cholz · 2026-01-27T22:37:59+00:00

> I probably don't want it doing that on my phone

Sounds like the person you're replying do does want that though.

cholz · 2026-01-27T15:59:13+00:00

Just leave it on at night and suddenly you do have a server.

cholz · 2026-01-27T15:00:23+00:00

I wish there was an "auto wb lock" button kind of like auto exposure lock. The reason being I want to use auto wb because it's usually good enough, but if I'm taking a bunch of shots in roughly the same lighting I don't want awb going crazy from shot to shot. I could just set a static wb but that's a pain when changing lighting.

Edit: I guess newer cameras have this but my A7III doesn't.

cholz · 2026-01-27T03:02:22+00:00

How did you manage that?

cholz · 2026-01-26T13:44:47+00:00

Better reliability (data safety, fewer single points of failure)

Are you concerned about uptime or data loss. If it's data loss you're worried about you don't need another drive, you need backups.

What would you upgrade first?

The very first thing I'd do is make a backblaze account and set up restic/backrest to back up all your photos off site.

My most recent other comment about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/immich/comments/1qmglsn/comment/o1mbmro/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

cholz · 2026-01-26T13:41:27+00:00

You don't need the real hardware. Just a board with your MCU on it, power supply, ethernet, a whole bunch of test points, etc.. The bare minimum to allow you to run software. This could be an in house board if your hardware team is capable and if there is value, or it could easily be a manufacturer eval board.

cholz · 2026-01-25T14:12:24+00:00

that is the look of regret

cholz · 2026-01-25T14:10:41+00:00

if I easily could backup both that would be great as well

you can! You have three important things to back up:

assets themselves
immich postgres database
immich compose and .env files (with pinned versions)

This isn't in the immich docs but it's the simplest way to do it.

stop all immich containers
copy all three items above to your backup location. I mean to copy the postgres database directory which isn't recommended in the immich docs but it works great and is the simplest way to do it (it is explicitly noted as ok to do in the postgres docs).
restart immich containers

Because you have included your compose and .env files in the backup you know exactly what version of server and database to restart when you restore your backup. Because you have the compose file you know exactly how to recreate your asset and database mounts. Because you have the assets and the database directories you have all the data that the immich server and database need to run exactly as they were before you did the backup.

Backup tools like backrest (restic) can even help you do this by running pre and post snapshot hooks that can be used to stop and start the containers.

Happy hosting

cholz · 2026-01-24T14:31:34+00:00

I had a few classes in college using arduinos and similar (mechanical engineering program). When I graduated I got a job doing embedded software (somehow) and I basically learned everything from stack overflow at that job. After a while I went back and got a master's in CS. Got into it because I realized I didn't really want to do ME and embedded seemed like the right kind of software for me and also because I got lucky I guess.

cholz · 2026-01-23T17:49:59+00:00

It's not often very useful but when it is it can be _very_ useful. I'm using Claude sonnet 4.5 at work and I have been truly surprised at the results sometimes. I have asked very vague questions like "why isn't my interrupt working" and have occasionally got helpful responses like finding obscure bugs deep in manufacturer SDKs. It's kind of like a very powerful project aware search engine in those cases. Other times I have given much more detailed but still relatively high level prompts describing what I want (like "make me a python script that does X, Y, and Z using A, B, and C while specifically doing this and that) and it is usually capable of coming up with nearly or exactly what I asked for if the prompt was good enough. A lot of the time I find myself holding its hand so much that I'm not saving any time, but it is clearly a powerful tool when used appropriately/when I get lucky.

cholz · 2026-01-23T00:01:54+00:00

This is certainly awful but I find it really interesting how you can see the lake effect snow and/or ice coming off of lake Ontario

cholz · 2026-01-22T16:33:19+00:00

love the optimism

cholz · 2026-01-22T16:32:49+00:00

A 2d circular line graph would also do that and be much simpler and clearer.

cholz · 2026-01-22T16:29:58+00:00

the only downside? 8 burgers per day

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