So you want to join Mastodon
TL;DR – Start on http://mastodon.online if you want to start today. It’s a general server that’s run by the non-profit
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How To
Practical Sharpening
Especially in cooking prep, a sharp knife is safer than a dull one. If you’re cutting something hard like a
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Swapping /etc/hosts files quickly
Last week I wrote a command line script to print out what day of the week it is. This week
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What Day is It? Command-line Utility
So you don’t know what day it is? Here is a quick tutorial on how to set up a small
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Making a GIF using FFMPEG
First, open terminal install FFMPEG brew install ffmpeg Done! Now cd over to the directory your videos are and run
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Air Coil Winder
Made an Air Coil winder with Mark Rosen. Put a magnet on the drill to count rotations using an iPhone
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Vinyl Cutter!
Steve helped me get started with Crash’s vinyl cutter, YES, Crashspace has one and it works really well! It’s the
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Neopixel Tester
I made a thing! It’s a little reprogrammable Neopixel Tester. It’s a small PCB carrier for an Adafruit Trinket M0
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lsof in the wild
A zero day exploit on the video conferencing app Zoom for the Mac hit the news yesterday. The excellent write
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Recording a Variable Strobe Light
Steve and I made a really fun fountain controlled by a bike pump for Maker Faire 2017. It was a huge hit
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One Thing To Do Today: Border Control Advice Round Up
Lots of bad advice is getting floated around about border crossings, including creating weird partitions or fake lightweight logins. Sadly,
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One Thing To Do Today: Don’t fall for “resistance” data parasites
There will be a lot of people who want to capitalize on the new activist energy that you should consider
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