Spitfire Controller,Spitfire Controller – OKdo (OKdo)
Remembering complicated keyboard commands whilst playing a game is a real pain, especially when there are lots of controls like in FlightGear’s Spitfire,Remembering complicated keyboard commands whilst playing a game is a real pain, especially when there are lots of controls like in FlightGear’s Spitfire simulator. That’s why we built a custom control panel with real switches and buttons to make the in-flight experience much more realistic. Although this control panel was built specifically for this Spitfire

Another interesting button box because it uses not only an Arduino but also an MCP23017 I/O expander to get more switches connected: https://www.okdo.com/project/spitfire-controller/.

Should also just work with a Teensy too.

…and it also show cases 😀

Feed Reading By Social Distance by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)
At the Crafting {:} a Life unconference one of the things that came up in our conversations was how you take information in, while avoiding the endlessly scrolling timelines of FB and Twitter as well as FOMO. My description of how I read feeds ‘by social distance‘ was met with curiosity and ‘c...

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/06/feed-reading-by-social-distance/ …and finally bookmarked so I don’t have to search for this again and again xD

Self-hosting VSCode by muesli (fribbledom.com)
As so many others, I’ve switched to VSCode as my go-to IDE in recent years. I won’t go into the details as to why I made that switch, but I really enjoy using it and find it to be a rather productive tool. It’s another Electron app for the desktop, and while that typically bothers me a bit, in today’s post we’ll actually use that to our advantage. VSCode in the Browser Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Can’t tell if genius or horrifying

Lei parla inglese? by Matthias PfefferleMatthias Pfefferle (notiz.blog)
In deutsch zu bloggen war eine bewusste Entscheidung! Der Austausch über das „open, portable, interoperable, social, synaptic, semantic, structured, distributed, (re-)decentralized, independent, microformatted und federated social web“ findet hauptsächlich in englischer Sprache statt, und mir ...