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Get an Arduino and write HelloWorld. Then add sensors (inputs) and actuators (outputs) to make something more according to your interests. Rinse and repeat.

I researched Bambu printers before and it seemed, at least at the time, you could not manage it with open source Octoprint. I prefer not to connect my printer to the live network but still want to access it remotely, which Octoprint accomplishes via serial connection.

I made this mistake. Realized it was stupid UX. Then I did it again 5 minutes later.

The terms of service say you can but the blog says you don't? I feel better.

As a separate issue, it’s strange the firmware pkg is not encrypted.

Seen this too. Sometimes companies think of themselves (or aspire to be) product companies but are really service providers. Not that there’s anything wrong with one or the other the same strategies don’t necessarily work for both.

Absolutely terrific software. One good memory is being stuck at a client site (20 years ago) trying to figure out an interop issue with our network equipment. In the two weeks I was there I found it helpful to write a protocol decoder plugin and it was easy work. In the end it was our bug, a bitmask applied for select() was not removed when the implementation changed to epoll() ... in essence a 1-bit memory corruption error that could have very delayed consequences. Funny what memories stand out.

Looks like they're back online with a fix.

Most people seem concerned about software, ecosystem and community. After my experience with Raspberry Pi, my top concern is investing in a platform that may leave me hanging for supply reasons.

The author also cites sailors Knox-Johnston and Moitessier. I learned about both here on HN and found their respective books bingeworthy.

Agree the shop parts of WD are very cathartic. That contrasts with the buying/selling aspect of the show. I use the ffwd function liberally to edit episodes to half their length.

How does this work? Do they publish your minified/bundled code and trust it’s a direct derivation of the un-obfuscated zip provided for review?

Install Brave for ad blocking YouTube on iOS.

I did the original import of the unencumbered SSH sources into the OpenBSD CVS repository (imported to the wrong path and Theo blew up lol). Haven't thought about it in ages and the distance of the memory is making me feel old too.

You offer a good description of adjusting a wheel that is tensioned beyond its natural limit. Sometimes the art is making an assessment of the rim and deciding the best set of trade-offs given the rim's limitations.

You say you have difficulty adjusting spoke tension but you don't say what the problem is. Do you have a spoke tensiometer? I consider it manadatory (you don't have to have a fancy electronic one although they're a pleasure to use).

Thanks for your post and sharing your progress. I look forward to the next one.

As a little bootstrapped startup, I can relate. I've also had on-shore production and sourcing issues that couldn't be resolved without unexpected costs/delays. And, culturally, Chinese vendors seem more straightforward or at least aligned with small makers. Their starting point is what they can offer rather than qualifying you as a customer.

Nice work. I can see the utility since I manually do this for some of my blogs [0,1]. But a subscription model doesn't work for me.

[0] https://www.islandix.com/blog/announcing-1-1 [1] https://www.islandix.com/blog/radar-re-homed

I'll accept the downvotes and say it's not a universal problem. Upon more research it seems if you do not send a Referrer header, McMaster inserts a history entry using the history API. I can make it work/fail by tweaking network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy. It's interesting that McMaster is the only site I use in 2022 that has a problem with it.

Not sure what's going on. I can reproduce in Firefox with DDG and Google.

Edit: it only happens for me in Firefox with particularly locked down settings. It turns out McMaster is not actually inserting a 3XX redirect, it is happening via the history API.

As I updated elsewhere: upon more research it seems if you do not send a Referrer header, McMaster inserts a history entry using the history API. I can make it work/fail by tweaking Firefox network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy. It's interesting that McMaster is the only site I use in 2022 that has a problem with it.

The best e-commerce site would not insert a redirect when arriving via Google search results (which breaks the back button).

Fantastic read. I’ll note for others this blog has an RSS feed (to which I’m now subscribed!).

Reminds me of the canonical list of operating systems that suck from alt.sysadmin.recovery (spoiler: all of them).

What’s the harm? On the other hand feedback from a thousand free users is worth less than the feedback from one paid user.

Pretty sure SBF thinks he’s the smartest guy in every room.

The meaning changed but the UI did not. Almost as if Elon did not understand the existing meaning before reinventing the blue check. His own Chesterton’s fence.

Depends on how much work it is. I would try to price it as my SaaS fee plus a consulting fee where the latter is NOT flat rate. Because this kind of arrangement turns you into a consultant.

I don’t think the author understands what people mean when they say “defund the police”.

Last year Twitter lost $221M so, yes, much of the $4M daily loss is due to Musk’s leveraged buyout.

I miss Perl. I managed a startup that built in Perl and C++ simultaneously. The Perl MVP allowed us to get into customer premises right away and we fed that learning back into the C++ version (on which our acquisition was based). In retrospect we would not have succeeded without Perl.

I used it recently to generate reports from analytics and it felt good. If there are remote jobs calling for Perl, send them my way.