So I bought a broken, old school pen plotter 25 Mar 2025, 12:00 am

I have a drafting degree. I also did some art stuff when I was in-between the Navy and my college experience. When I found a cheap-o pen plotter on a local...

How to speed up Linux 25 Mar 2025, 12:00 am

Disclaimer: only do this if you don't care about heartbleed, zombieload or spectre exploits (aka, don't do this at work or in the cloud or on a shared hostin...

Are you replacing an old Broan NuTone 696 b bathroom ventilation fan? 11 Oct 2024, 12:00 am

You'll need to buy part number C350BNR from Home Depot ($20 at the time of this writing). It's not much quieter than your original fan, but it'll fit and yo...

Want to stop AI from crawling your website? 3 Apr 2024, 12:00 am

Pull this robots.txt into your own on occasion.

NOTE: it's changing frequently, so pull often

[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.tx...

Too much (corporate) MFA 2 Apr 2024, 12:00 am

I work for a company that needs good security.

They recently re-organized their network infrastructure and let the cyber guys build whatever they wanted to ...

If I were to run for president 5 Mar 2024, 12:00 am

My platform would be:

• Term and (upper) age limits for SCOTUS, congress and (V)POTUS

  • The world belongs to the young. They should be deciding their own...

Graphing Trump Lawsuits 12 Feb 2024, 12:00 am

Using public data, these are the causes and results of the trump lawsuits that are available via public records [^1] (more than 50% of the court records were...

Ideas for modular homeless shelter 2 Feb 2024, 12:00 am

A friend of mine convinced me to finally visualize something that I've been ki...

How do GPS receivers actually work 18 Jan 2024, 12:00 am

I had to give this some thought because my pothole finder tool that I wrote during the summer of 2023 isn't providing very accurate pothole locations it turn...

What's with guys not being able to compliment women anymore? 6 Jan 2024, 12:00 am

I brought this up with a friend of the family and she was confused and thought (like I did) that it was still OK to compliment a woman about something about ...

The day i started sitting 30 Nov 2023, 12:00 am

Today I sat.

I sat a lot.

I quite enjoyed it.

People should try sitting. It's way better than standing.

Those people at work with standing desks... The...

The Longmont Pothole Project 10 Oct 2023, 12:00 am

The city of Longmont, Colorado has a pothole problem and it’s so bad that I’ve decided to try to do something about it.

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Growing Tomatoes 1 May 2023, 12:00 am

My father has always grown a healthy crop of tomatoes every year. Each year he tries a different method and over the years has grown quite a healthy crop … e...

Kindle hacking 7 Dec 2022, 12:00 am

I’ve got an unhealthy obsession with e-paper devices I think.

I love that they’re low-power and only require power when the...

E paper PDA 1 Jul 2022, 12:00 am

I bought an e-paper arduino device that has buttons, wifi, bluetooth and a pretty slick e-paper display on it. The arduino e...

Arduino LCD display 20 Sep 2020, 12:00 am

Initially built as a etherium/bitcoin ticker

Now a date/time/weather display!

I lost this...

Location based android game 21 Jul 2020, 12:00 am

During the early days of Covid-19 (before everyone was sent home), spurred-on by the popularity of Ingress and the Pokemon Go mobile games, I decided to writ...

Growing meat eating plants 6 Jul 2020, 12:00 am

2020 attempt

Worked pretty well. Grew 3 different Venus Fly Traps in a semi-sealed, high-humidity environment.

I event...

Elon Musk's Mars Colony (1M humans in 10 years) Notes 1 Jan 2020, 12:00 am

!!! disclaimer I'm a huge space nerd.  My father was a EE in the space industry and designed countless circuits for Ball Aerospace and Hughes over his 50+ y...

Moon lander game 1 Jun 2019, 12:00 am

I remembered that when I was a kid, one of the first video games that I ever played was “lunar lander”. Does anyone remember that game? Black and white vecto...