@dougal

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It's that Dougal guy. Webdev. WordPress. Electronics. Cooking. Stuff.

#wordpress #webdev #electronics #cooking #arduino #raspberrypi #raspi #rpi #esp #esp32 #esp8266

Bloghttps://dougal.gunters.org
We are Blue Dots in a sea of red.
Our son is watching Star Wars this morning, and for some reason I came up with this. 😆
How I feel about all the people who sank money into merchandise that says “Let’s Go Brandon”, “FJB”, “Joe and the Ho Must Go”, etc. #ImWithHer #MadamPresident #KamalaHarris #BlueWave #VoteBlue #DumpTrump
A leaked internal Google document has revealed that the “GPT” part of their ChatGPT AI actually stands for “Google Planetary Take-over”. It’s totally true. I swear. No, really.
Fun fact: Since 1912, the Titanic has killed an average of 13.7 people per year!
Oh, this is hilarious. Musk's Twitter and "intellectual property" is an oxymoron. He fired most of the staff. They were easy to scoop up.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor

The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk's chaotic social platform.

Woody got a bath last night. ❤️
#doggo #puppy #dogsofmastodon #dogsoffediverse #dogstodon #cute

Doing my part to preserve the integrity of the hashtag on the post-Twitter social web!

https://medium.com/chris-messina/hashtags-on-bluesky-ecc9c955b3cd?sk=ff159c67a2e9df0c049d17091b2bf22f

TFW you realize you’ve cocked up a #DIY #homeimprovement project, and you’re going to have to scrap and redo a not-insignificant portion of it. 😕

I was trying to use mudding to compensate for uneven surfaces between the old and new drywall surfaces. I should have used shims to bring the new pieces out even with the old, so that I would only need a thin surface coat of mudding.
#drywall #mudding #diditwrong #startingover #novice #leassonlearned

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.