Sophie
@sophie.engineering
Canadian living in NYC :3 I mainly do hardware design & software engineering Just a silly cat https://www.scd31.com
my roommate is away time to get up to mischief >:3 *completely fucks up the network topology*
www.scd31.com Come check out the new and improved cat house! it's pink now :3 and it has a cute cursor (but I'm not gonna tell you what! it's a surprise)
The Cat House
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sorry I forgot we had dinner plans tonight. you see, my calendar is a self hosted PHP app and
doin hot girl shit (making my bed completely unusable even though my bed time is imminent)
The Teamgroup RMA form has a gender selector. How do I tell if I have a girl ssd or a boy ssd
"I will not buy anything at MIT flea market" I say, shortly before buying two 10 gig 48 port switches
I'm sorry but if you don't have alibaba sellers wishing you goodnight what are you even doing
me when I finally find 3 other people willing to do 24 hours of lemons with me
glacier@glacier.catboys.cafe · 3w agoa quick stop
what is the girl (or non-gendered) version of silly little guy silly little girl is just not the same energy but calling myself a guy is weird
how am I supposed to find out what computer hardware to buy in 2026? like where do all the serverkitties hang out these days I can compare the consumer stuff easily enough but then there's the whole rabbit hole of off lease server equipment on ebay. where do they yap? i hope it's not reddit
home at my parents' for thanksgiving and found my old radiosonde hunting box. It has a computer (running an offline tile server and chasemapper), battery, GPS, SDR, and antenna.
This little kitty got NixOS running on her Banana Pi R2: gitlab.scd31.com/sophie/nix-o... now you can declaratively manage your ancient hardware!!!
if I can't explain what it's for then it's for emotional support, which means it still has a purpose
francis@dilfkink.kindboys.online · 4w agowomen from this 🏳️⚧️ country are always in possession of complex devices i couldn't possibly name the purpose of
"AI is bad because it makes computers nondeterministic" my sister in christ we've had speculative execution for DECADES
Sent my first fax since I was like... 12 at Nix Camp yesterday. Was a real group effort :3
I get a ton of questions about my CI pipeline that I use for my hardware projects. I had some free time so I finally wrote up a blog post www.scd31.com/posts/automa... If you do hardware projects with any kind of regularity, I strongly recommend setting something like this up!
Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix
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Oh yeah and I found this photo at the same time from a few weeks ago. I made a degausser by wiring up a curled up extension cord and ran hot through hot + neutral (into a toaster oven) so the magnetic fields would combine instead of cancel out. It worked incredibly well; the entire cable vibrated
Sophie@sophie.engineering · 4w agoThrowback to when I tried to melt the snow in my driveway by using CAT 5 cord as a heating element, running directly off of mains
Throwback to when I tried to melt the snow in my driveway by using CAT 5 cord as a heating element, running directly off of mains
Made some changes to www.scd31.com - Updated the text on the homepage and the about & contact pages (check it out :3) - Improved RSS compatibility - Added full post content to RSS (by popular demand)
The Cat House
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is it normal to reboost yourself on bluesky idk but it's normal on fedi so I'm gonna do it
Sophie@sophie.engineering · last mo.model welfare is when I call my claude a good girl catgirl welfare is when it calls me a good girl back :3
stranded in frankfurt on my way to nixcon oops. missed my connecting flight due to technical difficulties -> 3 hour delays getting through customs and they put me on a 9pm flight (I landed at 9am ): ) anyway if anyone else is in a similar position feel free to say hi. I look like a nix user