@mikesusz social feed.

don’t judge a woodworker by the number of clamps they have. instead, judge them by whether they think they have enough clamps.

(the correct answer is no: you can never have enough clamps)

@threetonesun “do you enjoy your work?”
“meh.”

woodworking ABC’s:

Always
Be
Clamping

tonight my kids watched the Linkin Park concert from Madrid in 2010 with me. someday i’ll explain why dad was crying a little by the end of it but not tonight.

@rrriley glad it helped! if i did it over again i would have gone with a mixer that had a metal chassis. the wi-fi of the ipad makes for a bit of interference if they’re too close. but otherwise it’s been awesome.

@threetonesun @marcamos i still have one of their PC cases around here, haven’t built anything in it yet.

@marcamos

all y’all are excited about new CSS color spec but do you remember when we had to pick web216 so that colors looked the same across operating systems?

to anyone making techno music: if your track has any of the following, please reconsider:
- phone beeping noises
- talking. not singing, just talking
- alarm noises
- siren noises
- anything that sounds like a cat being sick in the next room

thank you.

@marcamos @threetonesun @collinsworth is this a chalupa or a gordita?

@marcamos i’ll build you a PC in it. or melt it down to make 4 or 5 new cars.

@threetonesun @marcamos but joe it’s a $400 loaf of bread that will last forever

@marcamos @irafcummings @arstechnica i built their wordpress-based publishing system for Announcements, one of my last big projects as a freelancer. RIP.

@marcamos hmm not sure, i got ours at our local hardware store, the big box ones didn’t have any. the important part is getting the right size; they make them with different spacing of wire to collect smaller things (e.g. acorns) and larger things (e.g. chestnuts)

@marcamos last season we used one of these to pull about 8 5-gallon pails full of acorns out of our yard. (then we cut down the oak tree that was dropping them)

@marcamos need nut rollers!

@threetonesun @marcamos i get the same nonsense on my bills. compared to my neighbors? we have 10x computers, two WFH people, central AC.

@threetonesun i don’t get why i would want my Facebook people on my Twitter. i don’t want to explain to my elderly relatives what React is or why i’m mad at HTML email.

@hbuchel

up your grilling game by using a prep bowl to cover over the plate when you pull the food off, to keep it hotter, longer.

been spending my evenings making sawdust.

a lot of the media i’ve been watching lately is based on books i’ve read, and the series/movie has taken such liberties that i don’t think it’s important to have read the source material at all really.

it has the cast of characters, the setting, the overall arc of the plot, but otherwise it’s wild in between. i’m trying to focus on enjoying it and not what deviates from the written version because … how does that promote enjoyment?

treat everyone on your team as well as you treat the intern.

@revmem oh! deep sustained sleeping sounds. around nine, nine-thirty.

@mescutia ah yeah that’s a good point. i should maybe try one of those suspended mesh-type beds for them.

there it is. my old stickerbombed laptop covers are officially “art”

re-organized my office a bit so i could put a bed next to my desk for the dogs.

@annika ahh i did deal with that for my VPS at linode. of course, i should have done 2 to 3 dist upgrades over the years … probably would have sorted out the sources problem

@annika dist upgrades are tense but in my experience they’ve gotten a lot better. with normal hardware i haven’t had a meltdown in a long time

“highfalutin” suggests the existence of “lowfalutin” and possibly “midfalutin”

once again impressed by technology.

today i got to spend all the time i wanted wandering around at home depot.

is there a psychological term for the condition where when you read anything you've ever written, no matter how recent or afar, you reflexively cringe and want to destroy it? even knowing, when you read what you replaced it with, you will reflexively cringe and want to destroy it…

Random: I made a 'Uses' page and it's fairly typical. I will be updating it as I think of new things to add and/or find all my typos. https://mikesusz.dev/uses/

@annika hi Annika! long time. i hope you are well.

this is how DJ sleeps on me on the couch.

like seriously. here are screenshots of the separate desktops (don’t be creepy). And one of the Settings for Display where you can _arrange_ the displays!

Apple is … finally letting the iPad be a Real Computer?

boy howdy. iPadOS 17 beta. as i type this, i’m using an M1 iPad Pro attached to a 35” widescreen monitor at it’s native aspect ratio, via a twelvesouth dock. i’ve got a mechanical keyboard and bluetooth mouse paired. i have two apps in split-screen on the internal iPad display. i have two apps side by side in Stage Manager on the 35” display.

this feels like a “real computer.” like, i’ve been using this for a while and i kinda forgot this is an iPad and not my Mac desktop.

i pay an egregious amount for online streaming and on demand services, and yet every time — every time we want to watch a movie, it’s never available on any of them and we have to buy or rent it.

i should cancel all of this crap and we pay for what we watch, only.

@siracusa mine bitcoin = air fryer?

@marcamos @eric we sometimes wake our teenager up for school by grabbing his phone and start playing (like some old country song or something) on spotify and run out of the room with it. he leaps out of bed shouting “my algorithm!”

reddit ceo says they haven’t seen financial impact yet, so i went and canceled my Premium renewal. this won’t be realized until my sub would have renewed, but it’s something. then i logged out again.

maybe if more of us did this?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

or are subscriptions just a drop in the bucket compared to selling (our) data to advertisers?

@hbuchel 🤔Spatuloon?

@jeffbyrnes @marcamos for an occasional/project vehicle, probably not?

@marcamos looks like you just missed one, but they show up periodically https://carsandbids.com/search/mitsubishi/delica

@marcamos one might set up an alert on cars&bids. ;)

things are a lot less orange today and i can actually see the east river and central park.

real blade runner feels in NYC right now. the camera adjusts the exposure but it’s dark enough outside for streetlights and headlights

@irafcummings one of the first art deco buildings in NYC. i’m sure there was some controversy about the terracotta. (i absolutely love it)