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Fluffy tan software engineer squeaking at computers. I solve practical problems! ❤ @binaryfox ➕ @nrr. Kangaroo rats are real creatures!
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends`s or of thine own were.

Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

it tolls for thee.

my new burger restaurant concept is inspired by modern software. the options for mayo are "yes" and "maybe later", and if you pick maybe later, the chef stands at your table with a squeezy bottle, threatening to add mayo to your burger when you least expect it
In the San Francisco Bay area, the typical polycule and the typical early startup have a similar number of members. And, specifically: similar actual members, though most people are employed by at most one startup, while they may be part of several polycules, depending on calendar compatibility.

While the typical startup has venture funding and a much larger explicit IT budget, the typical polycule has more robust IT infrastructure, better phishing resistant authentication for its single-sign-on service, and higher reported satisfaction with IT support, despite having a much wider range of device types, ages, and operating systems to secure, and no MDM, mandate, or authority to enforce policies.

In this paper, we use an interview-based and embedded ethnographic approach to study these two very different approaches to IT requirements-gathering, decision-making, and implementation, and extrapolate relevant lessons for in the deployment of resilient IT systems which are responsive to community feedback.

@growlph @cendyne there's a variety of printer sizes and capabilities they've built over the years. I have a 105SL that can do 8 inches per second and peel or rewind onto a spool for batch prints. I've got an RP4T that does wifi prints of RFID labels. I've got a few LP2844 and LP2824 units with cutters to cut labels to arbitrary length.

Their equipment covers the gamut and I'm happy I chose ZPL as my initial printer language to support.

@NeoFox My go to test print is a small vase mode bin. It's fairly quick and lets me see problems pretty easily. If it prints just barely good enough I also get a usable thing for storing bits and bobs in!
After a mainboard replacement its aliiiiive.
@NekoEd it's something tougher than hot glue that feels like silicone or something

My 3D printer, having heard me speaking praise of it, decided to fail in a new and interesting way. I got several good prints, then it stopped dead in the middle of a large one. This has happened before, so I just rebooted it.

This time though the motors didn't move at all. Several reboots didn't help. I take the case apart and sure enough, a chip has let out the magic smoke that powers the motors.

Guess I'm waiting for a motherboard replacement for a while. Back to messing with 2D printers instead.

@SimonTesla Shelves!

You know those little electronics parts drawers for all those little bits and bobs? This is that but for bigger bits and bobs. I wanted something that would fit into IKEA IVAR shelves and make use of the full 12" depth. These are Akro-Mils 30110 Shelf Bins that I've designed these custom guide spacers for.

Planning to organize all the random cardboard boxes full of junk into these.

I wish I could get my 3D printer to print this well more consistently. It's so hard to reliably do huge batch prints.