I always enjoy when my wife makes a #3dprinting request. She knitted an "Elt-hen John" #emotionalsupportchicken, but wanted some appropriately-flamboyant glasses for the chicken to wear. Now I'm just waiting for the print to complete so I can hand these to her for bedazzling... #knitting #maker

I made a beautiful loaf of chocolate banana bread and I am being SO patient right now while it cools 🤤 #baking

omg, I finally found the Stack Overflow post that fixes my weird 5-second delay when resolving DNS names on my Rasbian/Debian Raspberry Pis: https://serverfault.com/a/962742 I was becoming frantic trying to figure out how to explain what was going on. strace was clearly showing the stalled […]

KTLA: LA Metro digital signs taken over by hackers https://ktla.com/news/california/la-metro-digital-signs-taken-over-by-hackers/ #cybersecurity #hacking

It feels good to make things.

“You’re looking trim” “Hacked my brainstem. I can set my metabolism to whatever burn rate I feel like” “Whuh, how?. I thought you worked in infosec, not neurochemistry” “That’s the thing, all those biologists were barking up the wrong tree. The interface between the conscious mind and the […]

Yes, patch plz https://tech.lgbt/@AzulCrescent/115399322752005389

marriage is just telling each other fun facts about the world until you die

I had some fun designing a weird little mounting bracket for my LED goggles: https://thzinc.com/2025/10/13/battery-mounting-plate-for-illuminated-neon-costume-welding-goggles.html #3dprinting

Having some fun with #weirdweboctober2025 by making dumb little games. I borrowed some inspiration from the Observation Duty games for today's "Blink" prompt: https://thzinc.com/2025/10/09/weird-web-october-2025-blink.html

Just realized I have enough posts with little games to make a tag for them all: https://thzinc.com/tags/games https://hachyderm.io/@thzinc/115342445027910763

Decided to get in on #weirdweboctober2025 with silly clicky game: https://thzinc.com/2025/10/08/weird-web-october-2025-container.html #weirdweboctober

#Obsidian Bases is such a power tool. As a part of my note-taking around writing and #maker stuff, I also keep track of electronic components, their data sheets, and other notes. Using Bases to pull these notes together is fantastic! The fact that it's all […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Heh, it's good to review my notes. Me from 2018 was learning to deal with depression: > Depression feels awful, but I am still here. It’s inconvenient and yucky and dark and lonely and terrible, but it didn’t end me.

I 3D printed a total of 17 iterations on a card design and wasn't happy with any of them, but I did learn some stuff. https://thzinc.com/2025/10/06/close-but-not-quite-an-attempt-at-3-d-printed-business-cards.html #3dprinting #fail

Doing a battery longevity test and these are still quite reasonably bright after over 24 hours on the same pair of CR2032s. I’m quite impressed! #maker #electronics

Now that my workdays aren’t filled with constant frustration, I decided to check out #LauraKampf’s maker meetup last night. She had a BYO Shirt screen printing call, so a bunch of us got a rad “MAKER”/“LA” design. Overall a lot of fun.

Question for designers and font folks: What is this font—OR what is this font derived from? I see this lettering on a ton of AI-generated images and I find it sort of irritating. (Though I'm not sure if it's the strangely "organic"/irregular font design itself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

There's nothing quite like dealing with COBRA to really drive the point that healthcare in the US is a point of leverage to push people into a certain kind of employment.

I've been meaning for a while to become a paying subscriber to #lataco for a while for their excellent local coverage of the ICE raids. (They're also really great for taco recommendations 🌮) Now I've made good on that subscription. https://lataco.com/

I wrote up my design and build process of the LED goggles: https://thzinc.com/2025/09/30/illuminated-neon-costume-welding-goggles.html #maker #sewing #electronics #3dprinting #cosplay

Ok, these are freakin’ rad. Definitely going to write a blog post about this build. #maker #electronics #3dprinting

I did a test print for my LED inserts for my goggles and I’m very excited. The nOOds look like mini neon tubes. #maker #3dprinting #electronics

[mh, uspol] Wowza, the anxiety today is rough. Read some of the news about Hegseth's military leader meeting–which is increasingly looking like a loyalty test/purge–and about EO direction to start labeling organizations as "terrorist supporting"–which is just... fucking dumb if it weren't so […]

Trying some hand #sewing today to make my costume welding goggles more comfortable to wear. The right half was my first-ever attempt at hand stitching. It’s… bad. I might redo it. #maker #cosplay?

Good morning fediverse 👋🏻

[mh, uspol] It is so hard to keep my head above the proverbial water right now. The constant ICE raids across LA, the brazenly authoritarian crackdowns on "left-wing terrorism" and free speech, the cruelty of it all... It's just so fucking much.

Today's little win: I designed a 3D-printable friction-fit holder for my enamel pins so I can hang them on my art display board. https://thzinc.com/art%20display%20board/2025/09/23/hangers-for-enamel-pin-collection.html

While I'm immensely grateful for the ease of getting this season's #covid vaccine, it's been a rough last 24 hours of aches and malaise. Finally starting to feel like I'm trending toward normal again.

May this Suffering Become So much Kindling For the Fire inside Us all, That we may One day Outshine The dark. #poetry

Now at the end of my two and a half years at Boulevard. Time to… recuperate? Feels weird

[uspol] So, is the rebranding to "Department of War" meant to inure folks to the executive branch unilaterally doing war things, instead of by act of congress?

I opened up a new spool of neon green PLA to print a tool for my wife and learned that some additive in this PLA (for UV resistance, I think) sets off my VOC sensitivities. 😬 I did make a pretty thing though: https://thzinc.com/2025/09/13/flat-rule-with-celtic-style-knots.html #3dprinting #maker

I’ve been working on some chores related to my domains and wanted to archive my #Bitly-powered short links. Bitly’s bulk CSV export tools aren’t available on free accounts, so I wrote a quick script with curl and jq to download a CSV of my short links […]

What a day to start Wellbutrin 😐

I think I'm going to try some molding/casting with scrap PLA into a plaster-cast mold. Sorta like slumping plastic into a mold? We'll see how this goes.

The days are so long and frustrating right now.

Currently alone at home making a series of noises that vaguely sound like a rambunctious toddler singing songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters.

My level of energy has been through the floor lately, but I did finally muster enough energy this weekend to hang curtains and run LED lighting in my office. I used the center rail in the #VIGDA triple rail to run the LED strip. I need to re-mount several of […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I regularly enjoy #albertatech's work. Her videos are fun and funny, but this one hits a little more directly than others: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cuHZ8xelnQs

I do really enjoy postmortem analyses. Found via the orange site: https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx I think there's a parallel from this poor use of PowerPoint as a means of expedited, low-quality information communication with the current generation of […]

Is there something going on at #chaneytrail? Seems like a tanker helicopter is doing runs: https://adsb.lol/?icao=a16c1c and the view from #mtwilson west seems like there's a recent cloud(?) forming: https://app.watchduty.org/camera/2196/fullscreen

Just added my new @rose_alibi sticker alongside my @krusynth one

Just realized my career started in the 1900s

It's been a while since I've watched a feature-length movie, but tonight I watched K-Pop Demon Hunters and was reminded of the beauty, inspiration, and joy of art and storytelling. I didn't realize just how much I needed it right now.

oh no. I took a week off from work and I'm still burned out.

Seen in #EagleRock, CA

I've had some iteration of a conglomeration of a personal ethics statements for some time, but I'm doing some career planning and journaling this week and decided to start pulling my disparate thoughts into a single document. Do you have any version of this for yourself? Anything I should consider?

[car crash (not me)] Still processing having called in a crashed van to 911 today. I was riding passenger today on the 5 Fwy and noticed a panel van that–at first–looked like it was pulled off the offramp that could have plausibly been to do some roadwork or cleanup. After absorbing for a […]

rant: why are "modern" CI systems such a pain to configure and use? YAML sucks, but every flavor of GitHub Actions, Forgejo Actions, Semaphore, Drone, CircleCI, etc. are just absolutely frustrating to iterate on. I want a local runner to test my CI. No, `act` isn't good enough for this.