I tried to hand-solder a Hirose .35-pitch connector onto a custom OSHPark board once. Let’s just say it was a humbling experience. Thanks to a generous friend, I learned the value of solder masks and owning a home reflow oven.

Respect to whoever can do this sort of thing, but life is too damn short and my eyesight and hands don’t need the abuse.

How you solder those without dropping a blob and causing a short is a mystery.

Someone should build a little AI app that scrapes a job listing, then takes a resume and rewrites it in subtle ways to perfectly match the job description.

Let your AI duke it out with their AI.

Kids, always have a trade you can fall back on.

‘Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”’

– Eric Schmidt, quoting Steve Jobs.

I could, but I personally feel anyone foolish enough to use my blathering deserves the unfortunate consequences.

My idea was for people who felt strongly about keeping their stuff away from the big maws of AI.

Outstanding!

Scrape a bunch of Onion articles, link them together in an index, then post an invsible link from your home page that spiders will follow but humans can’t see.

Write a script to randomize the words on all the articles and link them in too. Then change the image tags to point to random wikimedia files.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that there’s very little quality control. Channel your inner Ken Kesey / Merry Prankster. Have fun.

Yeah, but does it make Oscar Winner Hans Zimmer kind of noises? https://www.bmw.com/en/magazine/innovation/hans-zimmer-individual-drive-sounds-as-identity-for-electric-vehicles.html

We have an annual contest to see who spots the first Xmas display. So far, the earliest has been mid-September.

Toss-up between, Costco, ACE Hardware, and Daiso.

They got a PhD in science from a well-known university and worked on research for a while. Last I heard, they got married and ended up selling real-estate.

Don’t know about kids, but “Clifford, the Big Red Dog” sure traumatized Grandma.

Don’t do what they did: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wells-fargo-fires-more-than-a-dozen-employees-for-faking-work-using-mouse-jigglers-and-keyboard-simulation

For starting basic structure, have had good luck with Plottr. If there’s a complex timeline, Aeon Timeline is pretty handy. And once ready to write, Scrivener.

All 418 error codes. We good.

I just met someone who was going through the same question. They decided to take a two-year course and become a Physical Therapist, focusing on the elderly.

Said options were working with a medical group, at a nursing home, visiting people at home, or opening an office. Maybe a combination.

Their thinking was there was no way to get ‘disrupted’ and there would be endless demand. Made a lot of sense.

In our neck of the woods, membership in the Automobile Association comes with free maps. You have to go into their offices and request them, and they’re very helpful about which maps may come handy.

I usually get them before a long roadtrip into areas where they may be weak cell service. To be safe, I also download digital maps, but a paper map gives better broad context on where we are and what is nearby.

Problem is, we’re terrible at getting rid of them after the trips…

Organic high-voltage capacitors. Very common in Scandinavia.

On desktop, how many people search for an emoji, then just copy paste the character into their text?

Instead of switching to the alt keyboard, not that one, the other, no the emoji not the international one, dammit.

Or bringing up the keyboard menu, then scrolling around, looking for the right one, searching, no, scroll, scroll scroll, etc.

Chocolate Stout beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream (gently lowered – otherwise it’s all foam gushing about).

I take no credit. A deadhead, traveling beer blogger in a Winnebago (how he described himself) told me about it years ago.

Beer float.