Mathias Verdon 韋馬斯

Can confirm, it's a very rocky place. First 2 pictures around Wulai and the last 2 in Kenting. I had a blast both times. 10/10 highly recommend.

I don't think there's enough flyers, I can still see through the windows.

Hongkongers really do community so well.

📷: Tyrone Siu / Reuters

It's always DNS.

It's always the silliest mistakes, isn't it? I've spent so much time trying to figure out why I wasn't able to receive frames and it turned out I forgot to pull the standby pin low. The weirdest thing was it worked perfectly at 250kbps in listen-only mode.

Morning update: typhoon very strong.

I don't think I've ever seen HKO describing seas as "phenomenal". It really shows how exceptionally strong this typhoon will be tomorrow.

Full coverage of Super Typhoon #Ragasa, as world's the biggest storm of 2025 so far closes in on #HongKong: hongkongfp.com/typhoon-raga... Photo: SSEC/CIMSS, University of Wisconsin–Madison, via CC2.0.

Every time I look at this map it gets closer. This is going to be a big one.

$3 trillion market cap and can't even extract a flight itinerary from a forwarded email.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

So I'm looking for the cheapest 1-channel DAC available. I could just use an R-2R ladder but I want something small and with an interface that uses very few IOs (I2C or SPI). I've found the DAC53401 for less than $0.40/1k so far. Any cheaper options?

Bon 14 juillet !

I step away for a minute and this is what I come back to.

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

I see good old Li's Field is still active.

It's durian season!

Sunday mood

Catching up on season 2 of Andor and every time I hear the Ghorman speak in their own language it tricks me into trying to understand what they say. It sounds so much like French but doesn't have a single word in common. Is this how French sounds like for non-French speakers?

So it begins

Since I have a couple of desktop computers gathering dust at home, I might as well learn a few more things about Kubernetes while setting up a multi-node cluster with them.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Oof that's a lot of red

Periodic reminder that Bill Ackman is the genius who thought shorting the Hong Kong dollar would be a good idea: www.reuters.com/markets/curr...

Have you patched your ingress controller yet? The best time to do it was yesterday, the second best time is now.

David Webb @webbhk.bsky.social has sent out an update regarding the inevitable end of webb-site.com; his entire database will be freely available on Github under the Creative Commons CC-BY licence so that it can be taken forward by anyone who is interested