# circuit diagrams (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover circuit diagrams. Page: Feed: --- ## [SOT-23](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-07-31-sot-23/) _2026-07-31 · xle · (untitled)_ The "SOT-23" package/family of packages is an incredibly common thing to find on any circuit board you might pick up from the past twenty years or so. So why is it that no one can give you a straight answer to the question: what is a SOT-23? The wait is over; I know the answer. Overview The simplest answer to the question of "what is a SOT-23" is as follows: "SOT-23" (AKA "SOT23", AKA "SOT 23")… ## [Anarchist Social Media: Part 3](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-06-17-social-media/) _2026-06-17 · xle · (untitled)_ Apparently this is giving me brain worms so I'm going to try to hash out as much of the details of how I think this whole "completely decentralised social network" thing should work. EchoNet Protocol V0.0.1 EchoNet is a fully decentralised, secure, public social network protocol built on webs of explicit, voluntary trust. By fully decentralised , it is meant that there is no centralised authority… ## [Anarchist Social Media: Part 2](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-06-13-social-media/) _2026-06-13 · xle · (untitled)_ I've been thinking some more about social media and how it might be approached in a more anarchic way. Particularly, I've been thinking about Conway's Law : Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. Extending this idea to systems of governance, I suspect that it may be true that: Any… ## [Databases](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-05-27-databases/) _2026-05-27 · xle · (untitled)_ I have been thinking recently about databases. I started with the idea that "databases seem very complicated and opaque; they should be simpler and more accessible" which led me to the idea to implement a database using the file-system itself. This is also based on thinking about this article and wondering where the distinction lies between "database" and "files" and further musings about how we… ## [Circuit Simulations](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-03-08-circuit-simulations/) _2026-03-08 · xle · (untitled)_ In order to improve the content available on the site, I've been looking into doing raw SPICE simuation with ngspice . This takes "netlist" files and produces "raw" data outputs. I can then present the output using the spicelib , matplotlib , and numpy python libraries. Combining this with my circuit diagrams means I can present and simulate my circuits. Example Here is the diagram of a basic… ## [Pancakes](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-02-28-pancakes/) _2026-02-28 · xle · (untitled)_ Before we begin, please understand that perfection is divine: all may experience it; few may define it; none may reproduce it. I am eternally suspicious of anyone who makes pancakes with a weighing scale. If you are American, then you might find some of this terminology confusing: to my knowledge I think you would call these "crepes" rather than pancakes. If you are French, then I can only… ## [Anarchist Social Media](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-02-28-social-media/) _2026-02-28 · xle · (untitled)_ I try to avoid labels wherever I can. In this way, I subscribe to David Greaber's view that anarchism is something you do , that it is something you practice , rather than something you are . To nail my colours to the mast, I'll say that I think anarchy is good and I would like for us, collectively , to do more of it. If you are wondering how we might do this, then I recommend starting with… ## [Document Control](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-02-27-document-control/) _2026-02-27 · xle · (untitled)_ At work, we have a problem; it's one of those small problems that no one really thinks about. The essence of our work is split into two categories: designing things and selling things. The things we sell are easy to keep track of: physical objects that arrive, and move through the building from goods in to goods out. Tangibility makes things easy. The things we design, however, are much less… ## [On Logbooks](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-02-25-logbooks/) _2026-02-25 · xle · (untitled)_ On Logbooks A sequel to my post on to-do lists . I've spent a while now (nearly a year) using a digital logbook for work stuff. Most recently, this has been using Obsidian . My requirements for a logbook that make a digital one the preference are as follows: A digital logbook is searchable; a physical one is not A digital logbook is readable; my handwriting is not (even to me) A digital logbook is… ## [Revamp](https://xle.sh/blog/2026-02-24-migration/) _2026-02-24 · xle · (untitled)_ I've just finished revamping the site to use entirely custom templating. Not too difficult in the end but quite time-consuming. I'm now using Simple.CSS with a view to building my own classless CSS framework sometime in the future. Hopefully this improves accessibility somewhat. ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rsWZPHXGIZ7y) _2026-02-23 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [SVG Circuit Diagrams](https://xle.sh/blog/2025-09-11-circuit-diagrams/) _2025-09-11 · xle · (untitled)_ I've been playing around with using tikztosvg to generate circuit diagrams and then importing them into my Zola blog using shortcodes to handle theme-aware inversion. Here is the result: Try toggling the light/dark theme on the toolbar! EDIT 2026/02/25 You can no longer change your theme in the toolbar as the site now respects your prefers-color-scheme browser setting. If you want to see this in… ## [Zola Migration](https://xle.sh/blog/2025-09-02-zola/) _2025-09-02 · xle · (untitled)_ After trying (foolishly) a couple of days ago to simply update my then-Hugo-based blog by adding a new post only to discover that everything has broken now , I have decided that Hugo's time is over. I'm not alone in this frustration. I went through a very similar thought-process to Herman Schaaf and was just about to start work on my own single-executable SSG when I thought to see what else was… ## [The Problem with To-Do Lists](https://xle.sh/blog/2025-08-31-todolists/) _2025-08-31 · xle · (untitled)_ I spend a lot of my life trying (and often failing) to direct my attention. This is a different problem to not being able to concentrate: I have no problem at all concentrating; I simply struggle to choose what it is that I am concentrating on, and trying to concentrate on something that isn't the- thing -du-jour is difficult at best and causes extreme distress at worst. In an effort to combat… ## [DeepSeek-V3: Diagrammed](https://www.vtabbott.io/deepseek-v3-diagrammed/) _2025-01-16 · Vincent Abbott · Vincent does Deep Learning_ Quick post about a diagram I released on X a few weeks ago! It's DeepSeek-V3 - a. On the leaderboards , it's performing better than the May version of GPT-4o, indicating that open-source models are less than 7 months behind OpenAI. Here's the ## [Diagrams Explained (Quickly)](https://www.vtabbott.io/diagrams-explained-quickly/) _2024-11-21 · Vincent Abbott · Vincent does Deep Learning_ This post covers the foundations of diagrams—how they represent data types and the functions between them—with minimal fluff. There is no category theory in this post, which may encourage or dissuade you depending on your background. If details are missing, I've oversimplified; if too ## [What's so Hard About Representing Deep Learning Models?](https://www.vtabbott.io/basic-weaving/) _2024-09-03 · Vincent Abbott · Vincent does Deep Learning_ Many papers in the field are rather indecipherable, not providing in prose, diagrams, or equations all the information needed to know what an algorithm actually does. I believe this comes down to the difficulty of expressing the exact size of data throughout a model and how operations are broadcast to ## [Case Study: Shortfalls of Attention is All You Need](https://www.vtabbott.io/case-study-shortfalls-of-attention-is-all-you-need/) _2024-09-03 · Vincent Abbott · Vincent does Deep Learning_ This is drawn from Section 1.3 of my paper Neural Circuit Diagrams: Robust Diagrams for the Communication, Implementation, and Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures . It is a primer for a series of posts I am about to make on how Neural Circuit Diagrams can address many pressing problems in