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  1. ah yes, 1:30pm, the normal time to have to turn on all my lights to make it not feel like it’s 9pm already
  2. I’ve done it, I’ve created the worst data structure ever
  3. I always forget I own dessertbus.org/
  4. A happy “what did I leave in the pocket of this coat” season to all!
  5. Made the best Lock Screen
  6. When you pickle a red onion, you end up just putting it on everything for the next two weeks. Not a complaint.
  7. top gun tom cruise mach 10 scene, but then he turns into a lizard
  8. The Small Secret of Monkey Island
  9. “Wait until 9pm to go get groceries, you won’t have to deal with a bunch of people and that terrible parking lot” sounds like a great idea until you go to start the car and somehow both headlights are out!?
  10. ATP hosts as sun/moon/rising signs.
  11. Soldering 0402 components by hand is totally possible, assuming you don’t loose them before they make it to the pad (and a really sharp set of tweezers really helps too)
  12. Until @tomhanks makes a 12-part series on the history of the shuttle program, this is a pretty good assembly of footage about STS-1 youtube.com/watch?v=qde9hnb4pq
  13. Yes Virginia, you can still NetBoot a PPC Mac from an Apple Silicon Mac running Monterey
  14. Computing Reed Solomon matrix
  15. Bring back the original movie soundtrack theme song and tie-in music video! youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2QGAIx1
  16. be the usb-c you want to see in the world
  17. Going to run my monitors at 24Hz so everything feels more ~ * c i n e m a t i c * ~
  18. If you see someone wearing a podcast tshirt in Canada, you can be pretty sure that they really like that podcast, because it cost them $80.
  19. It’s two 5.1K Ω resistors Michael. How much could they cost? Chinese consumer electronics manufacturers switching from micro USB to USB C: too much!
  20. Ah yes, we’ve reached the point on a Friday afternoon where my brain stops being able to think through boolean logic.
  21. Huh, I haven’t seen much noise about this. A Canadian Federal order just went into effect that requires Canadian ISPs to block a constantly updated list of IP addresses said to be hosting NHL streams (and/or some other confidential criteria) teksavvy.com/policies/internet
  22. BetterDummy (github.com/waydabber/BetterDum) + screen sharing = a decent poor man’s network extended display while I’m out at my folks dogsitting for a few days
  23. simpler times
  24. pro-Smits
  25. Not me digging digging through different backups of my Safari CloudTabs.db to try and find the 300+ tabs that disappeared from my iPhone. Nope. No way.
  26. Has anyone ever explored the latent heat of a baked cherry tomato as a possible source of perpetual energy?
  27. I gotta say, I really do still love PHP. New language features added in 7 and 8 have been great, and I love that I can scale from a project with a big framework and a package manager down to hacking something together in literally (wc -l *.php) 85 lines of code and have an MVP
  28. You’re telling me an object oriented this program?
  29. Quite concerned about whose final days this is talking about
  30. Text: Your package has been delivered! Me: Huh, no nock or buzz or anything, I’ll check the lobby. Nope, not there. Delivery Confirmation Photo: Delivered to a cafe two blocks away.
  31. Closing the trail of tabs and discovering how I got from A to Z
  32. No, sorry, you can’t merge in front of me when you’re behind me and it’s your lane that’s ending, that’s not how that works.
  33. Nothing like soldering 57 LEDs to get some practice with your new soldering iron. Also, it’s amazing what a difference a good soldering iron (and tip) and decent solder make.
  34. Another year where I think on March 13th that I should do something more exciting with bewaretheidesofmarch.com/ and then I don’t.
  35. *watching Obi-Wan trailer* Guess I’ll never not be able to hear “corn on the cob” in Duel of the Fates
  36. ULTRA
  37. Just updating the firmware on my soldering iron. Totally normal things.
  38. nooooooooice
  39. Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch