Spending the last 30 minutes setting the system time on a Matrixportal M4 via NTP and not using Arduinos servers that require an account made one thing very clear: LLMs aren’t even close to replacing documentation. We don’t even have to have a conversation about replacing a junior engineer. The amount of hallucinations and made up attributes the moment MatrixPortal is initialized was staggering. My favourite was “you can initialise the ESP if it’s already initialized. You simply have to…” -.-

Reading up on CiruitPython on an EPS32 and I have the strong feeling I'm either missing something essential here or that whole thing is so much easier than people want you to believe. Take this perspective with a grain of salt right now - I'll write more about it once the project is done. (I still haven't pushed any code to the board and I can do basic FPGA modelling, programmed embedded boards in C and use Python for >20 years.)

As every year I didn’t do a retrospective of the last year but some predictions for the current year. Some of them are a bit of a gamble, some I’m fairly certain about. Let’s see how wrong I was in 2027 :)

2026 - Timo Zimmermann

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Happy New Year everyone!

Ending the year with good friends, good foods, good scotch and unspeakable rage against Mario Kart World. <3

My oldest friend is dropping by for New Year’s Eve (our other two friends cancelled last minute) but this won’t stop me from making an extra large batch donuts :D

First snow of the year! <3

I’ve been using Ampache and Amperify (iOS) for music and podcasts and the experience is so much better than Music and Podcasts. Quick switch between podcast and music, playback speed, simple interface that allows you to find things…

Text input on the #AppleTV is already the worst possible experience imaginable if you don’t happen to have an iOS or iPadOS device close by. But now it’s literally broken making it even worse. I’m a little bit impressed.

Real talk for a second. Now that we keep seeing more Mortal Kombat movies which don’t make you want to sell your TV and move to the woods how about we get started on a new Tekken movie. Sequel to the 2010 one. Sick Puppies soundtrack. Pretty please? #MortalKombat #tekken