UpLateGeek

@jeriellsworth @tiltfive Did someone mention sleep?

Pssst you up?

@natalietran Thanks BRAND NAME for reminding me, now I know I'm going to be woken up early by drums right outside my window. [checks clock] Damnit, it's already after 1 am!

@CodysLab Pick a mushroom and you can eat for a day. Turn it into a bronze mushroom and you can not eat it forever!

Me making many metal mushroom molds.

@CodysLab Pro tip: Do not eat the brass mushrooms. Regular ones taste much better.

It’s done!

I finally have shiitake mushroom pinning!

@CodysLab We’ve all done it. Couple of weeks ago I designed a circuit, printed & transferred it onto copper clad, then etched it. Only realised I mirrored it when I went to drill the holes and noticed pin 1 of the IC was on the wrong side. Had to throw it out and do the whole thing again.

Cast a bronze branding “iron” (freeze branding) for my parents. Got the handle on before realizing it’s not mirrored. 🤦‍♂️ Oh well I think I can fix I just need to cut the handle off and weld it onto the other side.

@ActionRetro1 That’s almost Varta levels of destruction!

That's a lot of corrosion... maybe my Jeep had a Maxwell PRAM battery in it

@MLE_Online @TubeTimeUS Oh dude, thanks for finding it for me. Looks like my cakeulations were a little off. Please avoid entering or looking directly into the event horizon IRL. Street view is fine, since the effects don’t translate through the screen. Also RSVP the street view driver.

@elonmusk You may not be aware of this, but Twitter is a social media company, not a scientific research organisation. Just thought I’d let you know.

New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science

@BradyHaran In theory more speed could mean less haste, where haste is load on server infrastructure, which could help with Twitter’s bottom line. Doesn’t help with their legal and regulatory obligations, but I guess mr odour can only work on one thing at a time.

Does Twitter need to be fast? I’ve never had a problem with Twitter’s “speed”! It just needs less lying and fighting and spite.

@GreatScottLab [insert cartoon sad noise here]

@UpLateGeek Sadly I did not have this luxury🫠

Don't ask how long that took. 5x10mm2 cable through M40 conduit at around 5C. I am done for today.

@smartereveryday @SpaceCampUSA It’s pretty crazy, IBM were making hybrid packaged ICs decades before anyone else because they needed more integration than was possible with the silicon technology of the time.

They're here. Yeah, I recommend listening to him talk about this. This is back when they were figuring out ball grid array soldering techniques.

I just released a video that I believe will be historically significant. Early one morning, before the U.S. Space and Rocket Center opened for guests, I met Mr. Luke Talley in the Saturn V Hall.

@craig1black Same thing with Eagle, although I missed out buying a copy before it went subscription because I believed Autduck’s lies that they wouldn’t make it a subscription when they bought it from Farnell.

Nothing like paying for an expensive app (on both Android and iOS) to it suddenly go subscription. Where is my refund? I guess I'm SOL...

@TechConnectify You know what else is another social media site? YouTube. And any news site or blog that allows people to post replies. You know, the exact kind of content that people like to tweet about.

@natalietran Guessing this was written by Leonardo DiCaprio.

the emotional journey of an audio tour through the royal botanical gardens Victoria

has anyone here done the audio tour of the Melbourne botanical gardens? It's wild

@lazygamereviews Well that’s fairly horrific. Here’s hoping you don’t end up a grizzly news story about a teddy bear computer case coming to life and seeking revenge for being left abandoned for years in a dank basement.

welp

Anyone in the area down to pick this up and ship it to me?

@GreatScottLab Oh cool, a portable wifi doge! So wireless. Much battery capacity. Wow.

The final video from me this year is done🥳Look forward to a fun project this Sunday😉Now I will take a break.....

@CodysLab I feel like this is my kind of approach to problems. Too lazy to go to the store and buy a new one, so spend 10 times more effort to “fix” the broken one using whatever is laying around the house.

After breaking it even more... I Fixed the toilet! I used fish tank silicone.

I get home to find the floor wet and stained green. For some reason the carboy holding my algae broke and drained most of the culture. The cat wasn’t home and I know it didn’t freeze because my banana plant is still alive. A small crack that expanded? Heat from the lamp?

@craig1black This is not the right time of year for a diet. I figure it’s better to not worry about it until after the celebrations. Last December/January I managed to drop 10kg in a couple of weeks by catching some mysterious kind of respiratory infection. Best diet ever!

I guess any hopes of losing weight are gone!!

@BenKrasnow @TubeTimeUS I prefer tantalum’s for those kinds of circuits. They’re practically free compared to high capacitance MLCCs, and they’re extra fun when you accidentally put them in backwards!

@TubeTimeUS It sure seems like mlcc could replace electrolytics in many cases like these (5V mcu rail). I do in my designs when possible. What do you think?

on the bench of healing tonight: my coffee grinder which decided to bite the dust.