My friend finally received it today in the mail, so I can publicly share pictures of the gift I made him as his "Secret Santa". It wasn't secret after a while since I was late, but whatever.

He's a big LOTR fan, so I 3D printed a ring using gold PLA, got a page from the book printed with a parchment-like texture, found a frame in a thrift shop that I sanded/painted/etc and finally put a LED strip inside the ring so it lights up.

Very happy about the final result! #3Dprinting #lotr

The pervasive political illiteracy in the software world runs so deep that people can say things like this with a straight face, expect to be taken seriously, and sometimes _are_ taken seriously.

I have an alternative view: that this is 100% victim blaming, a totally unacceptable worldview for a responsible engineer to hold, and a screaming red no-hire flag.

https://fosstodon.org/@heapwolf/113830136140530054

I cooked pasta for my Mom's birthday dinner tonight. They all doubted my use of the Cold Water Pasta Method but I proved them all wrong!

https://altonbrown.com/recipes/cold-water-pasta-method/

Can't believe Mozilla's Solo is still online but OTOH it allows us to create truth bombs like this https://soloist.ai/hype
What are you waiting for?

Solo: break the web, pivot to AI. Taking open-washing to the next level by leveraging @mozilla's reputation while polluting the information landscape. #GenAI #mozilla #soloai

OH RIGHT

while yall are investgating alternate browsers, STAY AWAY FROM BRAVE

• run by homopobe and financial backer of other homophobes Brendan Eich

• crypto is all over the fucking thing. they drip feed users tiny amounts of crypto for unblocking certain ads and fill the home screen with crypto trackers and shit

• they "block ads" but inject their own affiliate links into sites you view

this is not the browser youre looking for

The phrase "I am entertaining doubts" is so weird.

For one thing, doubts are so hard to entertain these days — they have no attention span.

Doubts will just blatantly whip out their phones and check their email while you're trying to amuse them. Doubts have seen everything twice.

I blame TikTok.