I started this shelf project about 6 months ago when I moved into my apartment. I developed a parametric dowel rod connector system to build it then I had the hardest time motivating myself to finish it. I had to problem solve since I built it with basic tools and my Mk4/Core One printing 6+kg PETG

Just a little woodworking pro tip here. After smearing glue on a joint, rub the excess on your wrist. Then later you can cosplay as GoT Jora Mormant trying to hide his greyscale.

Tax Payers: Taxes are hard. I guess I'll pay someone to make it easy for me. CPAs: Here's our lengthy document with everything we need you to do to make preparing your taxes easy for us.

Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood

Ok this is going on my list of great articles blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...

the combined attendance of the minnesota professional hockey, basketball, and football teams showed up today to stand outside in air that freezes breath solid and affirm that we hate these bandits

Who feels overly prepared for the perils of quicksand now? www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/u...

Stupid body. Working on my pistol squats and the leg I'm just holding out forward is getting sore while the leg actually squatting my whole body weight is fine.

Suits really outdoing themselves with pushing this shit. Customers hate it. Employees hate it. And apparently it's not even cheap. Literally nobody wins.

Backend devs: are you tired of looking at noisy, unreadable logs from your local server? Are they full of distracting fields you almost never actually need for local work? Here's how to tidy them up to all signal no noise with jq: peterlyons.com/problog/2024...

Running a 5+ hour print on my Prusa Mini+ mostly for nostalgia and to show it I still care. My bambu A1 mini is idle and would be hours faster, but it feels nice to give the older printer a print now and then as a treat. Swapped in a 0.5mm nozzle too.

3 more drawers built today for the Drawers of Doom cabinet project.

musk likes thinking he's alexander or achilles (but NO HOMO) when he's just the library of alexandria fire for internet culture c. 2005-2020

Me: So did you like Stranger Things 5? Friend: Yeah Me: OK, then you have no legal basis to object to us listening to John Coltrane A Love Supreme in its entirety now.

It should make you sick, too, but since it doesn't I have to conclude you think big stupid men who can't think about what could possibly happen next are more deserving of their lives than people who dared to protect their neighbors. This is Civil Rights 2.0 and you're on the wrong side, bub.

Feeling nostalgic for when I was involved with multiple meetup groups that were active and lively. Things still haven't recovered from the quarantine.

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My kingdom for some precedented times.

PSA: if you have MLK or President's Day off work, take the preceding Friday off too for that sweet 4-day week, 4-day weekend, 4-day week experience.

I really like this analogy. CNC is a whole new domain with a lot of new skills to pick up vs traditional machining, but almost all of the skills picked up in a career of traditional machining are still incredibly valuable with the increased automation

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/

An especially difficult project I have been working on since October launched today. It completed one of our core business processes with zero manual work for the first time in the history of the company. I am both very stoked and very relieved.

it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus

I made it through 5+ hours of the John Carmack interview by Lex Fridman. Should I expect some kind of trophy or certificate in the mail?

this harmonica band at the Hong Kong airport had no reason to go so hard at 8am on New Year's Day but I loved it

Over the holiday, I put together a new window switcher for macOS. It's called Winby. And its special ability is to let you switch to a window based on any text in the window. Press the hotkey, type some text that's in the window, and hit return. Totally free. obra.github.io/winby

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

To the extent that LLMs shift the Pareto curve on time spent vs quality level of code, I'd much rather people spend the extra time improving code quality. Do the thing that's annoying to write and has many edge cases to test but has a cleaner UX. Aggressively refactor. Tackle the TODOs

It has abruptly transitioned from "maker space woodshop is full of people making cutting boards season" to "maker space woodshop is full of people making huge tabletops season".

Who's as tuned in as I am and identified the voicemail actor from Pluribus?

Oh snap I flashed a 4-spot #bouldering problem. Haven't done that in a while. Also not been exercising since Dec 22. So I credit this athletic achievement to my Christmas diet of cheese, eggnog, and whiskey. app.kayaclimb.com/share/climb?...

Very exciting discussion of possible rewrite of Hammerspoon (absolute hidden gem for macos automation scriptable in lua) v2 in modern Swift using JS/TS for scripting. www.reddit.com/r/hammerspoo...

Holiday schedule: Dec 24th: Christmas Eve Dec 25th: Christmas Day Dec 26th - Dec 30th: Full Goblin Mode

Unboxing the new PCBs for a guitar effects pedal project. "Yet Another Fuzz Face". #maker #electronics peterlyons.com/problog/2025...

Holiday Tip: tally up the words/time/effort you're funneling into arguing with someone about AI and ask yourself what creative projects you could be doing instead

Recovering from a difficult quarter at work where my complex project was over budget and behind schedule by taking on a complex hobby project that is over budget and behind schedule.

It turns out "I'm excited for my hard-offline staycation" has the same cosmic consequences as a movie cop saying "it's my last case before retirement"

there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty

I would simply not have axial tilt

OMG my daily driver Linux laptop is a thinkpad T480 which is apparently worth $120 today. youtu.be/kiGibwaOitQ?... I have 2 of these and in my mind they are still kinda new and fancy.

First session building modular cabinets. Several large rectangles have been made into many medium rectangles.

The curse of woodworking is it seems there is no amount of time, experience, reputation, etc where your peers will assume that you are aware of nominal measurements for plywood thickness. Someone is going to try to educate me about this every week for the rest of my life.

This is an excellent tour of the history of my career doing web development. So many interesting narratives, turns of events, rises & falls, and characters. www.artmann.co/articles/30-...

Sigh. Ask my maker space friends any simple yes or no question. Get 6 replies "have you tried doing your whole life over in a completely different way?".

At what point does technical debt become technical usury?

One of my absolute favorite experiences in the age of streaming music is making a playlist or set of liked tracks then forgetting about it for many years and then playing it. Every time I'm like "past me knew how to pick all bangers".

I got a set of different size roundover router bits and I'm psyched to add small roundovers to every edge in my woodworking projects soon.

OMG I merged all my PRs including the risky ones that broke my brain. Recorded an awesome demo of what took us most of the quarter to build. Light day tomorrow then the absolute most hard core rest and recovery I've ever done for 2+ weeks.

Almost every day I think about how much better software could be if we spent 1% of the money and energy being poured into LLMs on improving existing developer tooling in ways *we already know how to do*, whether because it’s just long-desired improvements, or known from academic research.

having trouble getting investors on board for my business idea of Big Warm Room. it's for people who don't have heated garages or workshops. you can just rent some time in the Big Warm Room to change your tire or cut some miters or whatever without freezing your ass off. Big Warm Room