Wandering Adventure Party

@macbraughton @redoak @afewbugs

The rest of my family have various forms of disability so even though cleaning is not much in my nature noticing other folks and being kind and helpful is.

It can be a kindness to have the opportunity to be kind.

@danlyke

Yes!

And sometimes I use my 3D printer to make jigs for precision work in wood or metal. It’s a wonderful affordance to be able to minutely change a dimension or angle and reprint.

It’s also great for this kind of work! Many iterations involved to get it to work just right.

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) (@stepheneb@ruby.social)

Attached: 1 image @justyourluck@masto.ai Screenshot of the FreeCAD model showing the parts of the filter holder that are installed onto a fabric mask: the fabric of the mask is captured between the lower fabric flange and the middle threaded flange element. The sandwich of the two layers of stainless steel mesh with a center layer of MIRV-16 filter fabric are captured between the top of the threaded flange and the threaded cap. The filters should be replaced every 3 months.

Ruby.social (ruby.social)

@davepolaschek @Purple

@davepolaschek

I’ve had so much fun learning new things to build stuff I wanted and needed.

Making tools to make this work easier is an essential part of this process — and making tools to make tools.

Some folks who are heavily into LLM-assisted programming seem to be getting lost:

Paraphrasing:

“This is the last month that programming will cost anything and I’m examining the implications of the cost of code going to 0

@Purple @danlyke

@davepolaschek

It’s much easier to write your own Forth than to make your own screws! It’s a wonderfully simple and expressive language. Ages ago I wrote a tiny Forth that interactively compiled to 68000 machine code.

More recently I learned Elm — that was extremely mind-bending and hard in a very satisfying way.

I’ve also had fun making screw-like threaded inserts because I needed bigger ones than I could easily get.

@Purple @danlyke

@AngelaPreston

I loved that movie. An amazing mash-up of genres, great acting, and transcendent music.

The way your friends responded … sounds very upsetting. I’d feel very disoriented for a bit figuring out what to do and how to respond.

And the results from using a very fine tweezers to pluck all the threads!

#BloomScrolling #Gardening #Saffron

This mornings Saffron!

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The Saffron is flowering!!!

They will probably keep flowering into early November. The shoots will stay green all winter and go dormant early next June.

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