@mikesusz social feed.

i’m at a wedding and it’s awkward. well. i’m awkward.

@jerzone a few years back, my brother was working for a company prototyping turbines, in the style of a jet engine basically. we went to an installation during a wind storm to check the output, it was absolutely terrifying to be near that thing.

@jerzone i love vertical axis but the max speed is 1x wind speed, means you really have to optimize shape. plus side, can’t spin out of control like some ”traditional” horizontal turbines

@jerzone that’s a good looking VAWT

@marcamos that’s an ios18 update i think

your house should have a “battery box” where all the batteries live. alkalines and rechargeable batteries, and the charger (and yes ours is a mess of other junk too)

but super important - a screwdriver. that screwdriver lives in this box and is always put right back into the box.

idea:

Apple Vision Pro is the Lisa of AR/VR for Apple.

🤔

any pot of coffee is a personal pot of coffee if you’re tired enough

@m750 as for the former, once i discovered that i have a backup of my website from before one of my co-workers was born. that was an interesting day for me.

@jerzone thank you for sharing all of this. my heart longs for the opportunity to just make myself insignificant in the face of nature and surroundings so amazing. someday. hopefully if i retire, i guess, i might be able to choose this.

@jayroh i watched a video of cheap hatchbacks driving around the Nurburgring and welp … now i know who i’m voting for.

@jayroh my “save” list is shared with the family regularly and i don’t know how foreign governments will take advantage of this but i don’t care

me, to the dogs: welcome to our Atio. notice there’s no P on it.

@siracusa every time i launch pokémon go. ugh.

It’s that time of year: grilling by flashlight

@jerzone hollywood upstairs medical college

TIL there are people in this world (who subscribe to Apple News+) who are motivated to cheat at the crossword. oh, the fortune and fame that awaits.

@irafcummings hire a contractor to build the app, pay them $55/hr. pocket the rest. brilliant.

@marcamos does it do the thing that the ‘movie’ type backgrounds do, where if you also set it as your screensaver, the screensaver animation will exit on wake and _be_ the background, slowing down and pausing the animation to become your desktop?

@hotdogsladies i hope they emphasize that it has to be _chelated_ magnesium to avoid turning yourself into an involuntary rocket engine

… but maybe that part is beyond the paywall

@jerzone @m750 this is one place my ford does well (or their partners) my 2013 focus has a 10 speaker sony system with separate woofers/tweeters in every door, a center channel on the dash and a subwoofer in the hatch.

@m750 @annika im too afraid of ghosts

it’s not a race.

@fred you see that one stack in the back that’s really neat? We’re really proud of that one.

@kgf it was a sweet time where i took credit for cutting our page load times by more than half! (by deleting several extra copies of jquery) (this actually happened at Washington Mutual :D )

oh look, Modern Javascript Development

@revmem oh! thanks for the reminder, my subscription to SpotTheStation must have expired.

I wonder if there is an evolutionary advantage to the squirrels who simply distribute the acorns throughout my yard, waiting for me to step on them and crack the shells, therefore they’re able to eat more with minimal effort

one thing Tim Apple didn’t talk about during the Apple fun party was whether the new airpods can reliably detect if they’re inside their charging case and turn off.

or if they are like mine and stay connected all night and kill their batteries (and the case battery - and yet - if they’re getting power from the case shouldn’t they know they are inside the case?)

@jda was this some sort of event day for EVs? my friend in San Diego went to something similar

@marcamos @briandigital isn’t there some sort of “Enable Messages in iCloud” setting that helps with this?

(and a further note, before anyone thinks to attack the remote-work “distractions” mentioned here: they pale in comparison to the dispiriting effect of spending 90 minutes in car to get to an open-plan office where i will be interrupted by co-workers instead dogs and kids.)

spent yesterday crafting tedious logic on how two datasets interact (i was added to a project at work that is nearly done but needs help wrapping up)

the stress of trying to maintain deep concentration amidst (dogs, life, etc.) and also under an arbitrary deadline is pretty daunting.

the saving grace for all of this, for me & my process, is to outline my intent in code comments before i ever write code. if your intent is wrong, you’ll waste time writing code that you don’t need.

until tonight, i was unaware that there are “millions and millions” of illegal immigrants flooding into this country, bringing fentanyl, with the intent of getting government sponsored transgender surgeries, and then planning to eat my dogs.

@threetonesun is this not a direct copy of the guy on the Ikea instructions?

i would like a research grant to study the interference patterns of stacks of partially ovoid concave parabolic planes obstructing flow while passing through a cylinder.

why do pringles get stuck in the can.

please don’t correct me, i am not a scientician.

when you’re done grilling whatever dinner is, take some store-bought tortillas and throw them on the grill, high heat, flip and pull within about a minute. it’s amazing.

@threetonesun @marcamos would have been better with sheets of plywood strapped to the roof

@leaverou congrats on the new gig, they’re lucky to have you on board!

@annika online she sells sea shells by etsy shell

@jerzone oh it’s the potable water, going from the core in the boiler to the mixing valve.

a copper elbow sprung a leak (metal thin with minerals and time) i cut off 2 elbows and replaced a section with sharkbite fittings. three months later one of the sharkbites started leaking.

i think the problem is that piece of copper is slightly out-of-round, the walls of the pipe are very thin. i’ll clean it all up and reassemble, hope it holds until i can get someone here to sweat new copper fittings.

DHW piping on the boiler started leaking again tonight. houses are complicated.

@marcamos yo dawg i herd u like svg buttons

@threetonesun @jayroh
“this is a great idea!”
“let’s turn it into a computer science project!”

@jessamyn here’s a photo of our middle-dog having an uneasy truce nap with our cat.

@jerzone @m750 yeah it seems like opsec and/or no resources to install/maintain the tech. it’s tough enough for us to get enough bus drivers, it seems.

@m750 yeah it’s been slowly creeping back toward the proscribed schedule, i suspect once we’re comfortable with that, they’ll zing us

looking at everyone else’s well-composed ‘first day of school’ photos with their kids and realizing i should just stage those the day before or something, because on our first day the bus showed up 10 minutes early (at 6:46am) and ain’t nobody standing around smiling with a sign at that time of day anyway

@jerzone when we drove up north for the eclipse, it was wild to see the connecticut being narrow and squirrely, when we usually see it down here as we cross into brattleboro and it’s massive

@atpfm john talked about the camera not being able to capture tiny text well. when i use the Magnifier function to view tiny text (ahem like the low-contrast 3px font on apple chargers) it seems to do okay, even if you ‘save’ the image and check it out later. do you know if Apple processes the image differently via Magnifier or am i enjoying my yummy placebo?