edunham
@edunham.bsky.social
hoarder of hobbies & tools & ideas
trying this out as a commonplace book
trying this out as a commonplace book
microwave oven's niche includes "i want half a cup of boiling water and no excess heat released into the house".
(why yes it is summer and i enjoy pushing my house to its limits of non-AC thermal management before admitting defeat and turning on the window unit)
(why yes it is summer and i enjoy pushing my house to its limits of non-AC thermal management before admitting defeat and turning on the window unit)
July 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
microwave oven's niche includes "i want half a cup of boiling water and no excess heat released into the house".
(why yes it is summer and i enjoy pushing my house to its limits of non-AC thermal management before admitting defeat and turning on the window unit)
(why yes it is summer and i enjoy pushing my house to its limits of non-AC thermal management before admitting defeat and turning on the window unit)
I think I'm now comfortable calling it superintelligence -- claude just successfully walked me through setting up my neighbor's random inkjet photo printer under linux. and I didn't even have to touch CUPS??!!
June 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I think I'm now comfortable calling it superintelligence -- claude just successfully walked me through setting up my neighbor's random inkjet photo printer under linux. and I didn't even have to touch CUPS??!!
sometimes the chickens make their "hark, an unidentified flying object!" noises and it's actually just a stale tortilla that i chucked to them like a frisbee
May 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
sometimes the chickens make their "hark, an unidentified flying object!" noises and it's actually just a stale tortilla that i chucked to them like a frisbee
www.codetriage.com is a very nifty idea if you're into that kind of thing -- get emails to find out about OSS issues you could help with!
(posting because it turns out i am not into that kind of thing at the moment but i still like the idea)
(posting because it turns out i am not into that kind of thing at the moment but i still like the idea)
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May 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
www.codetriage.com is a very nifty idea if you're into that kind of thing -- get emails to find out about OSS issues you could help with!
(posting because it turns out i am not into that kind of thing at the moment but i still like the idea)
(posting because it turns out i am not into that kind of thing at the moment but i still like the idea)
Livestock are the ultimate pen testers
April 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Livestock are the ultimate pen testers
in claude's defense, SVG is hard.
April 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
in claude's defense, SVG is hard.
huh, looks like I set a default main branch name on the old laptop, because I'd forgotten that Git does this. Nicely handled, git.
March 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
huh, looks like I set a default main branch name on the old laptop, because I'd forgotten that Git does this. Nicely handled, git.
TIL that chatgpt flat-out won't draw clothes if you so much as hint that you're looking for fashion illustrations. But, if you manage to con a picture of clothes out of it, the reply comes with "here's a fashion illustration"....
March 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
TIL that chatgpt flat-out won't draw clothes if you so much as hint that you're looking for fashion illustrations. But, if you manage to con a picture of clothes out of it, the reply comes with "here's a fashion illustration"....
good thing the home office doesn't require guests to badge in
March 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
good thing the home office doesn't require guests to badge in
"Wait, when did that finish installing itself?"
$long-slow-command; ding
(code in alt)
$long-slow-command; ding
(code in alt)
![$ tail -n 7 ~/.bashrc
function ding() {
local prev_cmd=$(history 1 | sed 's/^[ 0-9]*//')
prev_cmd=${prev_cmd%%; ding*}
local main_cmd=$(echo $prev_cmd | awk '{print $1}')
notify-send "Command Complete" "${prev_cmd} has finished"
spd-say -r -10 "ding! ${main_cmd} is done. I repeat, ${main_cmd} is done."
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvu4i3hhdevudwer32bx3swn/bafkreihabktl46j4futgudivpf7vtuwpdundkq5ij44tx7ont7ac6vk7ja@jpeg)
February 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Wait, when did that finish installing itself?"
$long-slow-command; ding
(code in alt)
$long-slow-command; ding
(code in alt)
First crocus of spring! The anthers look a softer yellow in daylight than on my phone camera, but it nails the vividness of the stigma's orange.
February 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
First crocus of spring! The anthers look a softer yellow in daylight than on my phone camera, but it nails the vividness of the stigma's orange.
harvesting water chestnuts is simultaneously so gross and so satisfying. It's amazing how a single year underwater turned clay topsoil into anaerobic sludge... but the plant loved it and that's what matters!
February 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
harvesting water chestnuts is simultaneously so gross and so satisfying. It's amazing how a single year underwater turned clay topsoil into anaerobic sludge... but the plant loved it and that's what matters!
there's few enough people around here that it's probably safe to share a secret: i impulse bought these at winco yesterday expecting them to taste like cardboard because they're huge, but they taste like actual real strawberries! no cardboard-flavored ones in the whole container.
February 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
there's few enough people around here that it's probably safe to share a secret: i impulse bought these at winco yesterday expecting them to taste like cardboard because they're huge, but they taste like actual real strawberries! no cardboard-flavored ones in the whole container.
@andersonaddo.bsky.social i tried asking for a heatmap of areas that are X hours from airport A and Y hours from airport B and also it is sad. It's probably just getting the HN hug, but maybe it's also wildly out of the design tolerances to use it on the scale of distances measured in hours by car?
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
@andersonaddo.bsky.social i tried asking for a heatmap of areas that are X hours from airport A and Y hours from airport B and also it is sad. It's probably just getting the HN hug, but maybe it's also wildly out of the design tolerances to use it on the scale of distances measured in hours by car?
today's award for least helpful comment autocompletion goes to....
February 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
today's award for least helpful comment autocompletion goes to....
look, it's the prototype for xyproblem.info!
January 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
look, it's the prototype for xyproblem.info!
The "VIP unreads" thing in slack shows a "VIP" badge next to the people whose pings you ask it to place in that category.
Expect some hilarious awkwardness in screen sharing before people realize the implications of this.
Expect some hilarious awkwardness in screen sharing before people realize the implications of this.
January 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The "VIP unreads" thing in slack shows a "VIP" badge next to the people whose pings you ask it to place in that category.
Expect some hilarious awkwardness in screen sharing before people realize the implications of this.
Expect some hilarious awkwardness in screen sharing before people realize the implications of this.
If you routinely encounter frogs that need to be eaten, maybe get a pet chicken to and delegate instead of trying to do everything yourself?
January 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you routinely encounter frogs that need to be eaten, maybe get a pet chicken to and delegate instead of trying to do everything yourself?
kinda nifty, how "pass it through a flame" is such an ancient sterilization method, but it's gradually been superseded by the widespread availability of copious amounts of incredibly clean water
January 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
kinda nifty, how "pass it through a flame" is such an ancient sterilization method, but it's gradually been superseded by the widespread availability of copious amounts of incredibly clean water
from a supply chain integrity perspective, it seems like "house brand" household products actually have an advantage over name brands -- far less lucrative for anyone to bother trying to put fakes into the supply chain?
January 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
from a supply chain integrity perspective, it seems like "house brand" household products actually have an advantage over name brands -- far less lucrative for anyone to bother trying to put fakes into the supply chain?
turns out the recommended tools for updating openbci ganglion firmware just plain don't work on android at the moment -- mysterious errors for me, but tried it on a friend's iphone and it worked fine. yay.
January 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
turns out the recommended tools for updating openbci ganglion firmware just plain don't work on android at the moment -- mysterious errors for me, but tried it on a friend's iphone and it worked fine. yay.