Two good wire joining wrap techniques I found on Tumblr. One's the red set, one's the blue set, sorry they're interleaved it was a gif. But they're definitely going into my how-to-wrap-wire brain toolkit.

#electronics

@moira

Hm. Not clear what the final step is for the red wires. If there's just a single bend in the left wire or the end is just getting snipped off, that looks like it would pull apart really easily under tension

@wrog @moira This is a fisherman’s knot dressed up in telco tech’s clothing.
@rmd1023 @wrog which one? the blue one is apparently also called a Western Union knot because they used it in telegraphy.