Have you thanked someone for a job well done recently?

Yesterday we had a guy come to repair a broken spring on our garage door. He arrived early, took at look at what was needed, fixed it all while I was in my office in a meeting, and just left the invoice for us. He fixed some other parts to it and lubricated it all, too.

So today I took 5 minutes to call his company and just simply say what an awesome job he did!

(And they were appreciative. Probably people mostly call with issues.)

Social activism in the past has relied heavily on networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. With the fediverse growing as fast as it is, our writer asks: can we do effective activism, too?

https://wedistribute.org/2023/07/can-the-fediverse-help-stop-bad-internet-bills/

#BadInternetBills

Anyone out there interested in #3DPrinting? Or just like seeing cool things done with 3D Printing?

Then you must check out Ivan Miranda - a Spanish YouTuber who makes his bones on *insane* 3D Printing projects.

Not only does he build his own massive 3D Printers; but he makes massive things with them. Sand printers, go karts, tanks (yes, he built a tank), nerf launchers… it goes on.

This week: finishes a nearly 2m tall printer build, and prints himself in plastic.

https://youtu.be/PxcP74W-PgE

I quit my job last week, and for the first time ever, I don’t have anything else lined up.

So: Do you know someone who needs a senior-level jack-of-all-trades coder and sysadmin? Who can also write well? And has thirty years of experience delivering robust, high-quality products quickly? In Los Angeles or remote? Send ‘em to [email protected]!

Please don’t make me have to use LinkedIn. Please.

#fedihired #GetFediHired

I 3D printed #Windows95 ! #Win95 #Windows98 #Win98 #WindowsNostalgia #3DPrinting

https://youtube.com/shorts/o8kPC-4MfXo?feature=share

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who revolutionized our understanding of what stars & the Universe are made of, was born #OTD in 1900.

In 1926, she wrote what is considered the "undoubtedly most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

She continued in the same spirit - only to be denied a professorship (or even the a proper astronomer position). She finally became a professor at Harvard at 1956(!) & first woman to chair a department.

#VicisAstro #astronomy #WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #SciArt