I build things out of wood in my garage and things out of code at Meta.
North Carolina, USA
Joined January 2011
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Decided to apply for Global Entry a while back because my TSA PreCheck was expiring this year and I figured why not?
I’ve been conditionally approved for months, but the nearest interview location is 3 hours away. 🤦♂️ I guess that’s why not?
Bought my first 3D printer weeks ago w/intent of designing several custom fittings for my woodshop dust collection system.
Instead, I've printed a dozen accessories for the printer/filament spools and just *one* DC fitting... and I've done no woodworking since.
doh
Michael Moussa retweeted
in every company there's at least 4 different manually updated spreadsheets of what people are working on, all slightly outdated in a different way
Why are they called “knockouts” when they… don’t? Had to do some sketchy stuff to remove this “pry-in” from my electrical panel.
Clearly whoever designed this must have assumed nobody would ever need to change anything after the initial work was done. 🤦♂️
First Monday of my voluntary month-long funemployment!
Looking forward to using it to spend time with my family and to work on the endless DIY project backlog I’ve amassed.
Relax? Ha - no thank you! My butt has spent way too much time in a chair these past few years.
I have three 6” flush-mount LED downlights evenly spaced along the room. No matter how I orient my desk, I’d either have a super bright LED in my peripheral vision all day or reflect a ton of bright light off of my face during video calls.
80% of the work on most of my projects lately seems to be figuring out what to do in spite of poor instructions.
Manufacturer: “Connect brown wire to terminal 1 and blue wire to terminal 2”
Also manufacturer: “lol let’s provide a cable with no brown or blue wires”
