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Mike O’Connor
@mikeoconnor.bsky.social
By day - Machine Learning.

By night - Amateur photographer, tinkerer, drinker of IPA

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If you’re looking for a candidate for best version, Kenji Lopez-Alt has an amazing method for crispy oven roasted potatoes. I make them at family gatherings and there are never any leftovers.

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The Best Crispy Roast Potatoes Ever
These are the most flavorful crispy roast potatoes you'll ever make. And they just happen to be gluten-free and vegan (if you use oil) to boot.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Damn that’s no I joke. Why on earth do you have that??
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
He gets that from his mother
October 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Installed the unit in my utility closet this week. Two temperature probes for each loop - one for hot and one for cold. The flow gauges tell me how much water is circulating, so I can estimate the watts of thermal energy sinking into the floors in real time. Kind of amazed that it works so well.
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is all amazing, thank you! I think it'll all be useful to me at the end of the day. I find maps fascinating for how densely you can pack information into them. So I guess there's only a tiny leap between a scholarly application and one where I'm hanging geospatial infographics on the wall.
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Maybe a long shot, but have you published any guides like this for people who want to make maps purely as art? I've been toying with QGIS to generate vector graphics that I can draw on my pen plotter, but the software is a bit overwhelming and I wish I knew where to begin.

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October 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Went with through-hole components because it's what I had on hand, but I think my next foray into this world will be entirely SMD. So much smaller and cleaner that way.
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. But I can't wait to find out.
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
That makes sense. I guess somewhat similar to why diesel tends to be cheaper than gasoline in Europe, but the opposite tends to be true in the states.
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Makes me wonder how much of this is the result of kerf wastage.
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I used it as an excuse to have a cookout and invite the neighborhood. I might need to make this a regular thing.
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the lack of sleep was comfortably offset by the knowledge that there were no leftovers at the end of the party.
September 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
total cook was 16 hours.
August 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hell yeah
August 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Comments are part of the code, as far as I'm concerned. And any healthy code review process should involve them too.
August 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Wait, there are people out there who don’t believe in code comments?? Yikes.
August 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM