I wrote a Magic the Gathering deck viewer \o/

 decky

My theory being is that you shouldn't have to sign in and save something to a database to share an idea.

Here is a link to my 3 card giggle: Lure, Lunch, Launch.

Been a long time in development. Glad that github can host html pages without much work.
Shall be interesting to see if I get any contributions.

Dell Monitor: 2405FPW Capacitor Replacements

Another day, another death of a monitor.

 

Well, this one started behaving badly. Blacks that were just 1 bit off were displaying in a mostly green. It wasn't good. Video was terrible.

Since I recorded what caps were replaced on the power board last time, thought I'd do it again.

470uF 35v x6. This is the one that showed most damage.
47uF 35v x2
1uF 100v x1 <- didn't replace.
120uF 450v x1 <- didn't replace as I couldn't find replacement.
220uF 35v x1 <- probably didn't need to be replaced as it looked like it was on the sound bar power line.

I'm amused that this repair involved less capacitors than my 19"

Only thing I'm annoyed with is I somehow missed a screw when putting it together. Don't think it is a problem. Not going through all the hassle to dismantle it again for ONE screw.

Dell Monitor: 1905fp Rev A02 Capacitor Replacements

I've been holding onto my monitors for a long time. I don't see a matching bezel style in 24" and 19", let alone the same base style.

So when my 19" failed to turn on. I was sad. I thought it was the Display Port > DVI cable as when I switched the cable, the monitor lit up. Now I'm guess there was just the right conditions for the power to be 'ok'.

But I want to keep a record of what was in there and what I replaced. I wasn't able to get them all from JayCar as the are required to be low ESR.

470uF 35v x4

1000uF 25v x1

1000uF 10v x3

220uF 50v x2

22uF 50v x1

2.2uF 50v x1

10uF 50v x1

4.7uF 50v x1

I could only get the 22uF in a 63V package. I understand that a higher voltage in a capacitor is fine.

I couldn't replace the 2.2, 10 and 4.7 because I couldn't get them in low ESR.

I also had to skip the 220 as my click and collect order was one short (and had an extra 470). They look like they are related to the backlighting.

My friend has suggested https://www.digikey.com.au/ so I'll have to check that out in the future.

Twitter ban hammer

 

I got hit by the Twitter ban hammer. I'm not allowed to post anything for 12 hours even though I thought deleting the offending tweet was complying with their rules. I must have failed to understand that text.

Now that I've deleted the tweet I've given up my ability to challenge the decision. After going for a walk I wish that I had left it up. Sensitive topic but that doesn't mean it should be censored.

Which is amusing as I've tweeted about that before as well.

Twitter is my place to rant usually... 9 hours to go.

Oh look, a link to a news article!

Ready, the amazing feature of the 'web'...
This is a link to news.
Since blogger is owned by Google and they have struck a deal with 'registered news businesses', does this mean the link is going to cost them? How unmanageable is that. A company has to shell out a price based on what a user can post. Maybe Google only have to pay if the link is clicked? What if no one reads this page?

I find the whole thing offensive. It was so exciting to see Facebook pull the plug on every piece of news in Australia and see the government throw a tantrum. 

Their own report was vague on what the definition of new was!

News and journalistic content are then defined in the CMT report as: 'A diverse range of informative content about matters of import that can be defined by characteristics such as timeliness. ... Deliberately elastic, it extends beyond content produced by journalists'

Official government document on the issue, page 15.

I wrote my local member of parliament. I got a call back the day after the bill was put into place so I don't know how much impact it had.

Holy cow, I’m starting on a website

Heads up. I have no idea when I started writing this and I don't know why it was only a draft instead of being published. I can't even remember what project it was for :( So yesterday and today were spent setting up the structure of a java web application using maven. I had previously used maven at work but focus is on the project rather than the tool (probably as it should be). So I got to bang my head against a fresh script.
And boy, am I not happy.
It shouldn't take 2 days to put together something that just displays a page when deployed. I must admit that it is doing a lot of things that I don’t need yet like running tests, javadocing, test reports, general “what is this project” website etc.
Some of the problem was over naming, cobertura-maven-plugin and maven-cobertura-plugin is just confusing.
I also had a configuration issue with cobertura. Apparently it is really hard to put the generated file into a specific directory (since it is a derived resource, it should exist in the target/ directory). So the work around is to clean the file specifically.
[xml]

maven-clean-plugin

${basedir}

cobertura.ser

The other stuff that has been slowing me down is because it is the kind of configuration that you do at the start of a project and forget.
Like a working log4j.properties file. For some reason I wasn’t able to generate one that just worked, so I had to google around to find a default one and I’ll move from there.

Just need to get automated deploy and web tests happening and I should be able to start coding functionality

Pyra got a quick overview

The biggest problem I saw with describing the pyra is that all of the individual parts are a little underwhelming. It is when they are thrown together in the one package that this device starts to shine. That's hard to do with text.

I'm not sure whether EvilDragon was planning on putting out a short video or whether my post inspired him but here is the video.




So glad it came out. Was a joy for me to watch too as it is the first video of a completed pyra.