After years of saying I’ll never go back to a dedicated RSS reader, I have finally gone back. I am now self hosting miniflux and have been consistently reading it. Just in time for all the sites to stop publishing their feeds, I’m sure.

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Oh yes, I did mean to use that hot glue gun I turned on an hour ago

Spent an afternoon spent chasing answers on how to expose a locally hosted app while I’m away from home (Tailscale, caddy, etc). The right answer was likely instead “install it in the computer you already rent on the cloud”…

These books are so gimmicky and I’m totally here for it

Given how I am almost always starting out my measuring process with “where the heck are my calipers”, you’d think I’d give them more of a vaunted place on my bench…

In my post the-power-didnt-fail-during-the-ice-storm moments of revelry, I continue to marvel at how dependent I am upon electricity and having it continuously delivered directly into my home.

Everyone in the southeast of the US watching the weather forecase with an approaching ice storm, I’m over here smashing F5 to see if my JLC boards make it into the queue before CNY

When I am doing a KiCad layout, it is almost never the DRC that gets me. It’s the fact that I skipped or misused ERC and I have been doing layout under false pretenses. Who needed that power pin hooked up, anyway?

Of course I need to spend hours designing this extra BGA part onto a board for an obscure use case, I’ll be able to hand populate it no problem. Why do you ask?

Excited to try out and start daily driving KiCad 10. So many new capabilities! https://www.kicad.org/blog/2026/01/2025-End-of-Year-Fund-Drive-The-Year-We-Lost-Count/