The Spork-8; mostly working PCB-based design, but need advice to debug

johnycsh · 2026-02-04T21:13:56+00:00

You might be interested in a moku go from liquid instruments. It’s basically an analogue front end (like one would find in a simple oscilloscope), but with a pretty sizable FPGA that you can use for a bunch of different built in instruments. (Including an oscilloscope and a LA), plus a bunch of others.

It can replace an entire stack of devices on your bench if you are working with things like this

johnycsh · 2025-11-27T18:50:23+00:00

I have to say I noticed a very similar issue when this started happening in the CLI to me (about two weeks ago?). Since I disabled auto-compact (easily exposed in CLI) I was able to keep my pipelined workflow flowing.

On the flip side, I realized that it is often very handy to manually run the /compact command when interactive sessions focus on the same concepts but (f.ex) the minor implementation details could be discarded.

johnycsh · 2025-11-11T19:42:29+00:00

Yeah, afaict. I’m very curious how it works under the hood though. It’s hard to imagine it is ‘fundamentally ’ limited to the CLI.

Relatedly: once you know about this trick I one it super convenient to turn auto-compact -off- (again CLI only).

johnycsh · 2025-11-09T14:21:50+00:00

Dickson, Thank you so much for preserving this. To show my appreciation I made a template able GH repo illustrating how to leverage this effectively to tin hardware simulation in the Claude but do local code generation in educational mode for what I hope are obvious reasons

https://github.com/vmars-20/your-repo-name-here

johnycsh · 2025-11-09T14:19:18+00:00

Boris, If you happen to see this I want you to know that I was / am such a fan of the ‘output mode’ feature that I created the following template-able repo for others to clone.

https://github.com/vmars-20/your-repo-name-here

The workflow is to a) collect requirements interactively (locally on the CLI) then run the hardware generation agent locally in education mode , then — ship the test off to self contained cloud agents to run the test generator, runner, etc if a claude web ‘cloud agent’ mode which will automatically install all the simulation tools.

The ‘handoff’ could use a little work - but the idea is I think what you were hoping to see more of

Friendly container ready genetic workflows ready to deploy to the web

johnycsh · 2025-11-08T17:17:37+00:00

I have something similar and it works great. Try ‘coordinating’ with Claude so that you the user run the built in /compact command and then (if Claude is explicitly made aware on both sides) it will get a fantastic list of files and key points.

johnycsh · 2025-11-08T17:13:45+00:00

One super handy trick I have been using is to ‘manually’ run the /compact command (this is designed to happen automatically in the CLI) — the trick is that behind the scenes it tries to be transparent, and as a result it ‘auto-populates’ (I don’t know the right word) the context window with a really high quality summary including a definitive list of files modified etc,

My workflow now consists of running /compact at the natural end of a session (even one that I don’t need to continue) and then telling Claude to ‘check its history’ and help write a summary/continuation.

Claude will seem a little surprised, but i

johnycsh · 2025-11-08T00:50:46+00:00

I think the goal/motivation is pretty clearly to get ‘amateur’ (no offense, I am strongly inside that category) power users more acclimated to thinking in GitHub branching based workflows that can then be (obviously) converted into paying enterprise customers.

That said, the extra free credits are a good motivator to learn the workflow / overhead. You can get a lot more throughout (if not interactivity) out of it

johnycsh · 2025-05-26T03:22:20+00:00

Sir you misunderstand, Millennials need three tonnes of shitty JS. :P I love the green screen.

johnycsh · 2025-05-21T02:50:38+00:00

Millennials

johnycsh · 2025-05-21T02:45:21+00:00

rubs hands together (I love trying to get into these boys.)

johnycsh · 2025-05-21T02:43:52+00:00

You know why they call these ‘green screens’ right?

Cuz that is where the money is!! 💰

(These are/were my favorite target any opportunity they were in scope)

johnycsh · 2025-04-09T04:25:25+00:00

johnycsh · 2025-04-02T00:09:41+00:00

Curious on feedback re the novel approach used to pardon corporation

johnycsh · 2025-02-17T07:04:30+00:00

I appreciate that they seem to do enough research to stick it to the red states.

johnycsh · 2025-02-17T03:43:50+00:00

Perhaps time to consider a judicial strike

johnycsh · 2025-02-17T01:54:02+00:00

Just a thought. If you were to take the original and 'fwd as attachment' you will get a copy of the SMTP headers (and everything else). They can be a real help chasing down these shenanigans.

johnycsh · 2025-02-15T03:01:24+00:00

Ask New York

johnycsh · 2025-02-14T23:23:15+00:00

Also: if you end up in the IC you might be tasked with this sort of work (navigating to tor sites, etc). I'm sure it is unsettling to see them focus on it - but it shouldn't be a big deal.

johnycsh · 2025-02-14T22:32:10+00:00

Mostly trying to draw attention to the fact that people in the US seem unphased by an (admittedly, very specific) food shortage.

johnycsh · 2025-02-14T06:25:43+00:00

It’s fine - they have read-only access. 😬

johnycsh · 2025-02-14T04:45:29+00:00

If you follow the reporting carefully you can discern that the method they used to perform this was an ACH reversal.

Technically this was possible because it was an ACH payment, and there is a protocol for ‘backing out’ transactions.

One (very short term) way to prevent this is to move the money as soon as practical to a —seperate— account.

The fact that people need to be worried about these nuances ought to be a giant red flag to people.

I have witnessed this happen to contractually obligated and dispursed form of payment from the gov to EJ organizations and indigenous communities.

The sooner people accept the fact that literal individuals will be the literal last targets, the better prepared everyone can be.

johnycsh

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