@thomasfuchs drop from a height of 18 inches onto a hard surface upon initial unboxing, in order to ensure all internal chips are well-seated

Father's day is coming

(rendered in bold red block letters as an emergency alert)

Trying to think of a better way to say “Fuck around and let someone else find out” and “base your entire organizational / national culture on maximizing shifting the finding out to many someones else”

@redoak ooh 4th dimensionally rotating crackers that actually result in more chewable material over time than what was first inserted into a mouth hole

@idiotthembo alas, yes, even there

Photos from New York are reminding me of smoke season in Portland back in 2020. That’s… not fun

@juliepagano same same

Yeah, like, this was not in fact the Blood Moon from Zelda over Portland in Sept 2020

Huh. I forgot that .matches() and .closest() were DOM node methods. Neat.

https://gomakethings.com/event-delegation-and-nested-elements/

@robcee It was a real neat book!

So, like, fiber optic cables... you can just kind of strip the insulation on two ends of a break with a swiss army knife and finger-twist them together as a repair right?

(this thought brought to you by having just seen a squirrel take a curious sniff at my precious fiber coming into my house and then move on)

@rafial Sweet, I did that for a lamp cord bitten-through by a house bunny, and everything's worked out alright so far 👍

@danyork Yeah, I think that should work better outdoors than electrical tape!

@jrconlin Should I use a Zippo lighter to, like, melt the pieces together?