The Developer Guy

New year, new plans! If you don't know me yet: hi! I'm Béla, The Developer Guy. I teach, code and make fun little #opensource projects. (most of them involve some electronics, but not all of them) You can find devlogs and/or tutorials about them on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/thedeveloperguy If you like my designs, you can download the gerbers or order one too here: pcbway.com/project/member… (I don't plan to sell them on Tindie) Also, a live, online Python quickstart course is on its way, it will launch in this spring. 2023 is finally over. I say finally, because it was a terrible year for me, with a lot of downs. The only ups were You guys. I met some fantastic people here, some of you helped with ideas or found some errors in my design. Thanks! I don't check my follower count very often, and I was really surprised to see: over 1100 people thought these stuff are cool. And you all deserve some content/entertainment! My 2 mains are Python and Embedded C. Totally different worlds, so sorry if one type of content is more dominant from time to time, I try to balance things. Last year I started working on Stonks, a crypto-mock project. You can get it here: github.com/the-developer-… My goal is to make a practical tutorial project, without all the ultra-beginner stuff. A full-featured, tkinter based GUI, with charts, realtime "real" trading (the prices are fetched from coingecko!) to have a sane goal. And the electronics. Sheesh, I have too many projects! Some of them are production-ready, like the li-ion charger or USB-C breakout, but the others need some work. Lampy, my 10W dual-tone USB lamp is more like a product, feature requests are welcome. Anyone can buy a dimmable video lamp, where is the fun is I just buy one? (also go buy one with open firmware) But the STM32Duinos are practical jokes and tools in the meantime. It's 2024, even Arduino switched to all-32bit. Rest in peace, AVR8, I loved you all, but time flies! But the hobby scene tends to stuck in the past, because there are tons of tutorials for the old boards, and the new stuff is scary, right? Until you get a decent quickstart tutorial, like the "STM32 demystified" series. This is a "conversion therapy" from Arduino to more professional stuff, but with detailed explanation. The playlist is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=… I will have some more projects too, so if you follow me, expect similar stuff in the future. Also, as a small channel, I struggle a LOT. Maybe YouTube is dying, maybe just the topic is not so popular, maybe the format is wrong. Educational stuff is not compatible with Shorts/TikTok, but making an 1-hour video essay is also impractical for these kinds of stuff. the 5-15 minutes is just not trendy, but I try to make value, not be trendy. In the meantime my videos don't pop up enough in recommendation (or recommended after the wrong type of videos), so you can help a lot by sharing them. I do have a Patreon: patreon.com/thedeveloperguy - but only 2 people are in the paid section and I don't really tell you "go throw some cash in there", because I'll try to change the pace. I hate having a tight schedule and ship a video every week. I tried that, but this type of content is not so easy to make. I don't have an editor (and couldn't afford to pay one at this phase anyway), I'm a one-man-army. YouTube penalizes this, but I prefer making factually correct, enjoyable videos, and release when it's actually ready to be published. I saw Nile Red's latest "purple gold" video and gave me hope. Of course I won't get 9 million views in 10 days, but I hope there is place for creators with slower pace. Also, desperately open for collabs! I couldn't find a fellow maker with similar interests, so ping me if you want to make some stuff together! If you have any remarks, the comment section is open. Have a happy, and successful 2024! 🫡

@simplex_fx Valve also makes hardware, develops its OS, contributes to opensource compatibility stuff. Meanwhile Epic makes dumb skins.

“Valve Corporation operates with a remarkably lean staff, estimated at approximately 330 to 360 employees as of 2025” While these retards could fire a thousand .. Let that sink in..

@blind_via EUposter here. The US looks significant, because it’s one big number, but EU countries are separate, smaller numbers. (And if we add those, it’s more than the US for me) Divide the US into states, and you’ll understand it.

Can't help but notice how many none US posters are unhappy about the change, since the majority of their audience is the USA. This suggests that the majority of twitter, is the USA.

My idea of revenue share would be "set a monthly budget, and divide equally among the people you subscribed to support". I don't like Patreon's "manage/budget each creator" model. Let's say I have 10 bucks every month for this. If I interact with 1 person, that guy gets the whole $10 that month. If I sub/click "support" for 10 people, everyone gets $1 that month.

Well, canceling premium is one way of a feedback. I’ve been punished by random bullshit one too many times. I didn’t subscribe for revenue (still not monetized), but basic premium is not enough to claim squatted handle, and I basically get 0 traffic anyway (there goes the “boost”). Why pay for being played?

Well, I certainly don't make too much money from this website so I don't really care, but now I'll make even less, if any at all. If I want to reach people in my country, I'd either start to post in Hungarian which would make no sense because most of my followers are from the U.S, or start writing abot Hungarian politics in English, because thats what hungarians talk about all the time. The topic doesnt interest me at all. I use this app so that I can reach a global audience instead of a local one. I get it that X wants to stop paying Nigerian engagement farming accounts, but this will hurt everyone.

@MaxRovensky @nikitabier My home country doesn’t even show up in the analytics, it’s that miniscule.

@nikitabier Checked my analytics My account creation country: 0.5% of my audience My App Store region for cheap YouTube Premium: 0.7% of my audience Actual country where I live: 0.5% of my audience Excellent

Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.

@nikitabier About 10 million people speak my language, and almost no one uses X in Hungary. I hope this fixes the core problem.

I rember going to a bookstore, and the clerk had narcolepsy. Budapest is not Seoul or Tokyo, but we managed to do self-checkout before it was cool.

@blind_via Demand or “demand” (work 12h shifts for pennies, strictly in-office 5 days a week)?

How many of you guys are actively looking for PCB design jobs? I can feel the demand from the market and from my professional experience. If you're having trouble finding it, that demonstrate the gaps of expectations vs candidates that fit those expectations.

@PCBWayOfficial Nixie refuses to die!

A lamp made of several acrylic sheets

@blind_via Oooh, my pet peeve: the enshittification of toys! Back then: grab some fissile material kid, and learn about radioactivity (cool and based) Now: the “science” of colors, mix super safe food dye (lame and doesn’t teach shit)

Vacuum mold manufacturing and die casting as toys? Would be sick if they still made these

@Willrandship Not yet.

@thembeddevguy I hope you're keeping that box somewhere nonflammable.

A whole bag of vapes processed! The battery collection slowly, but grows!

>Posts get literally 0 traction >Yearly engagement is lower than the average user's daily numbers >Timetocancel.mov >But wait, one-time special offer! >Whoops, something went wrong And that's what happens if you don't have a paypig fetish. There was a time when I said I gladly pay for a decent service, but X premium doesn't worth it.

KiCAD is my favorite video game.

@UboPod @observie Latency. Raw photons don’t have to go through processing in a real microscope. (It becomes bearable over 60Hz, but many cheap digital microscopes add significant delay)

@observie how is this better than digital microscopes (besides resolution)? I find looking into the lenses a bit exhausting. I usually just use a magnifying glass for visual inspection (watch maker's glass :D)

If you're serious about soldering, you need a microscope

@blind_via I can't post the board I worked on, so I had to post this. It's not uncommon to build a huge evalboard, add a bunch of test points and easily accessible ports. Miniaturize everything in the final product, but let the engineers have some clue during development.

I wonder if apple still does this. This prototype PCB appears to be a "proof of concept" board before it was miniaturized into something small. This is a great idea if you have concerns that your concept for whatever reason will not work. So, you build a simple cheaper version of it first to demonstrate that it does work before investing more.

@Pirat_Nation Finally, it’s time to use this pic

Pokemon has announced official customizable wedding and engagement rings Options include over 30 ring designs, 12 gemstones, and engravings featuring 80 different Pokemon marks. Engagement rings start at ¥335,500 (approximately $2100).

@eevblog Now do “people who totally depend on government handouts”

Should people who work for the government be allowed the vote?

@willreil Any practical tips for unleaded? New regulations now absolutely prohibit civilian purchase. I can buy as a company, but I’d love to do a talk on leadfree soldering on this Arduino day.

Lead free solder until I die (of natural causes and not lead poising)