Have you done anything you're proud of lately?
This could be work or recreational related. Anything you’ve done that you sit back and go “hell yeah I did that”. I’m typically wary of working on cars because I have big hands and no auto specialty tools. But, I was able to make a pretty involved (for me) repair last week and I’ve felt really great about it since. What about you?
I wound my own common mode choke to reduce noise in the power line for my mobile radio
It’s a mix 43 ferrite toroid with 3 turns of 8awg wire going opposite directions for positive and negative. The idea is that clean dc power can get by easily, but interference from stray RF, or nearby electrical switching (think dimmable LEDs or similar) will see a really high resistance as it goes around the ring and get lost as heat, letting only the clean power get to the radio.
This same idea is used on usb cables and all kinds of household electronics to protect against data loss and interference.
Pictured above as the knobby things at the ends of a usb cable, these guys are the little cousin of the big bertha version I made
I bought a Pentium II 450Mhz Dell tower for $40 at a flea market recently. It was in great condition except for missing a hard drive. Installed a 32gb ssd with a SATA to IDE converter kit and installed Windows 98. It works! This was my first time doing something like this.
Looking for a good graphics card now. I want a VooDoo 2 but those are like $300 on ebay.
I’ll find a nice planet and build a base in Creative Mode in No Man’s Sky.
Have a save file editor for my build game, so I don’t have to grind to get the fancy parts and I can just relax and settle in and let my imagination fly.
Solved most 2025 Advent of Code problems using an alien programming language called Uiua.
This is what my day 2 solution looks like:
When I get depressed or stressed, I tend to withdraw hard. I’ve ghosted friends for months at a time before. The guilt that comes with a relative ghosting makes it really hard for me to reach out again and usually I instead just let go of the relationship.
But I had a frank conversation with someone I recently withdrew from and it feels like there’s still a friendship there for us both. So it’s tentative and covered in bandaids, but we’re on good terms again.
I’m about halfway through the biggest furniture commission I’ve had so far. It’s only a small bookshelf, but it’s solid 1" thick red oak with wenge accents. I’ve only messed up a couple of minor things along the way 😅
I just wrapped my kids’ Christmas presents and put them under the tree. I really took my time this year too.
mitigating small apartment problems one adhesive hook at a time
congrats on the car fix!
in that case I highly recommend also getting the little rubber charging cord holders to grip the bottom of each utensil so when you inevitably fling the cupboard door open in a rush because you forgot the damn bay leaf again, the utensils don’t go swinging about making a ruckus lol
for larger things I use a second sideways hook or cord keeper clip at the side/bottom. these ones:
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