• Moved to Codeberg

    David H. Bronke • 7 hours ago • 0 comments

    I've moved the project hosting again, this time moving from GitHub to Codeberg. I've been unhappy with Microsoft for various reasons throughout my career, and with the fact that they're now using all public GitHub projects as training fodder for their AI (they only say they won't train on your code if you're a GitHub Copilot Pro user), I've decided it's time to move. This has the added bonus of moving more of my online presence out of the US.

    If you haven't checked out Codeberg yet, you should! They're a great non-profit project hosting service using Forgejo, and they're very responsive to the community. I've had an excellent experience hosting projects there for the last 10 months. 

  • Moved to GitHub

    David H. Bronke • 06/04/2025 at 11:25 • 0 comments

    I had been designing the PCBs using Flux.ai, and hosting the designs there. However, recently they changed their service to require a paid subscription to make changes, so I decided it was time to move to a different tool.

    In the past, I've used Fritzing pretty extensively because of how easy to use it is, but I stopped using it partly because their Wayland support wasn't very good, and my mouse cursor would disappear when hovering over items in the schematic and PCB views.

    This time, I decided to try KiCad again. Last time I touched KiCad was years ago, and I moved to Fritzing pretty quickly because of how complex and buggy it was. (it would crash on me quite often) However, since it's been so long, and KiCad still seems to be the go-to for much of the open hardware community, I figured I'd give it another shot.

    It seems that they've made a lot of improvements to it lately; it has only crashed on me twice so far! And usability has improved quite a bit since the last version I tried. I was able to build the Snowshoe MX and Snowshoe Choc designs from scratch in about a day.

    I've uploaded the KiCad project to GitHub; feel free to fork it, open issues, etc.!