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Blake Oliver

@coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io

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Avid reader, programmer, punster, autodidact and coffee lover. I write smoll iOS and MacOS apps for fun and (supposed) profit, tinker with home automation, self-hosting, 3d printing and various other things. Trying to travel and be the social more (IRL and here).

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Joined June 03, 2023

Ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/smolldev

Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/coffee_nebula

Github:

https://github.com/oliver2213

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Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · Jul 26, 2026

I'm glad someone wrote up how to turn off this tracking ID ms likes so much in windows, but maybe a good repo to put on Radicle; I give it 3 days before they have this taken down. https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116983628401073240

Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · May 27, 2026

Another year, another $100 to Apple for my "developer" subscription.

Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · May 26, 2026

Number of times apple terminal has crashed this week: 1, so far. Let's see.
Ugh.

Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · May 24, 2026

I used to be a software developer but now I’m 3 agents and a spec in a trenchcoat.

Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · May 05, 2026

Replying to @MrLee@aus.social

@MrLee Was also curious; here's a try: you don't see all posts with the hashtags you search for on Mastodon as I understand it - just ones your server has cached already from other usage / users on that instance. So #tagspub lets you follow EG @gr8memes and then that "account" reposts for that tag, so you see any #gr8memes posts you might otherwise not have.

Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io

Oh, it also has a mode to essentially make the touchscreen read-only (it can only select menu items, not activate - you do that with a button), you can enable the mode remotely via an m command, and tripple clicking the select button should turn it on as well.

Blake Oliver @coffee_nebula@hachyderm.io · Apr 10, 2026

Any blind 3d printer users out there with a machine running some flavor of Marlin 2.1.x? How do you feel about running alpha firmware from someone on the internet to add accessibility?
Claude and I hacked up an accessibility events system and a couple backends for it yesterday. Its still in the “hey does this even work" phase, and my eventual goal is on-chip speech synthesis for printers that can support it (at the moment the fork only has earcons and UI text broadcast over all serial links for a host device to speak).
I still need to write the Octoprint plugin and work on synth support - is anyone interested in testing? (Super great pitch I know).
https://github.com/Oliver2213/Marlin/tree/a11y
#3dprinting #a11y #opensource

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GitHub - Oliver2213/Marlin at a11y

Marlin is a firmware for RepRap 3D printers optimized for both 8 and 32 bit microcontrollers. Marlin supports all common platforms. Many commercial 3D printers come with Marlin installed. Check...

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GitHub - Oliver2213/Marlin at a11y

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