Wait, what? You can locate studs and joists BY FINDING THE SCREWS WITH A MAGNET?! 🤯

Loving my new reverse-action tweezers for fixturing components for soldering. So much better than those Helping Hands things, they have much better reach than croc clips and apply a force much more perpendicular to the board.

How about querying a petabyte-scale data set on S3 using a single #Elasticsearch node? The upcoming experimental release of searchable snapshots for the frozen tier in #Elasticsearch 7.12 has you covered → github.com/elastic/elasti… + go.es.io/3eVrzGF

If you have been struggling to compute #bitcoin addresses on your microcontrollers because the RIPEMD-160 algorithm requires a ludicrous amount of program space then I have some code you will like. github.com/DaveCTurner/ti…

I always find it amazing that this is the correct way to wire up a simple one-switch-one-bulb room light here in the UK. The installer UX is just terrible. Fortunately if you get it even slightly wrong then it goes bang straight away so at least the feedback loop is tight.

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Is there an #xkcd comic to illustrate the observation that there's an xkcd comic to illustrate every observation?

I know you all love a debugging whodunnit, so here's a tricky one that I think you'll enjoy. davecturner.github.io/2021/08/30/sev…

Hey Otley friends, Friends Of Otley Lido (FoOL) are fundraising for renovations and reopening right now, go and give them a bit of cash if you can spare it. otleylido.com

Pump Up The Volume! the M/A/R/R/S jukebox musical SCENE 1: A wide-eyed aspiring DJ arrives in New York. But they have partial hearing loss! In the cab from the airport, they have to ask the cab driver to speak up. SONG: Pump Up The Volume (1/19)

Someone needs to write a tool to support EOLing of Java apps and name it “cave”, so we can talk about “Java apps: from gradle to cave”.

I riveted a picture hook to the end of a ruler and now lining up pictures is a lot less hassle.

In hindsight it was a bit of a waste of effort to get everyone to agree that all shower hoses have a ½" thread and a taper to hold the head on the wall without also agreeing on the dimensions of the damn taper.

WTF did Android just do to my icons? Do I really have to distinguish these things by shape alone now? Doesn't this break those apps' branding guidelines? How is this better?