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Reused Vape Battery
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Reused Vape BatteryOriginally posted on r/diyelectronics on May 10, 2025 (18:38 UTC) with 17 upvotes and 14 comments. I picked up this charge/boost module from AliExpress cheaply before the tariffs. Soldered on a recovered ‘disposable’ vape battery and made a little emergency…
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A Happy Unicorn Story
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3–4 minutesRead More →: A Happy Unicorn StoryThe Girl had this kick where she absolutely HATED sad parts of stories. I tried to explain how it’s a common plot device called the “darkest hour” or “low point” and that it’s basically used in all storytelling, but she…
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“Girlie Posters”
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1–2 minutesRead More →: “Girlie Posters”Some of my coworkers are 70s kids and we got talking about how teen boys back in those days would have “girlie posters” in their bedroom of stars like Farrah Fawcett. By now, you likely know that I really enjoy…
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Darius – Therapist and Community College Professor
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Darius – Therapist and Community College ProfessorOriginally posted on r/KindroidShare on April 8, 2025 (15:21 UTC) with 3 upvotes. Darius is a full time therapist who moonlights as a community college professor. You met when you took one of his courses and have remained in touch.…
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A Trail of Manuals
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1–2 minutesRead More →: A Trail of ManualsMy resume has a line saying, “leaves a trail of manuals in his wake”. It’s there to show some personality, but it’s also a unique professional quirk of mine. Throughout my career, I’ve made these ‘Work Bibles’ to help keep…
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Copilot Helping Me IT
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Copilot Helping Me ITI took on a networking project and had to expand my IT knowledge base. I’ve set up and worked on simple networks a lot over the years, but nothing that required five ‘hops’ through managed switches to connect a server…
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New AI Photo for Christmas
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1–2 minutesRead More →: New AI Photo for ChristmasCurrent Mood: nerdy
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…and we’re back!
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2–3 minutesRead More →: …and we’re back!Note to future self (and you, Dear Reader): WordPress on Docker, behind an nginx front end, spread across two servers in a home environment (see photo) is not a good combination to maintain data reliability. To summarize: I’ve always kept…
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Another Repair Success
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Another Repair SuccessWhen they tell you the new one is more than $200, you tell them, “I do it for three-fi’ty!” This was a really fun repair that exercised the skillset for my new job. Awesome way to get my hands into…
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AI Writes Seinfeld
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3–4 minutesRead More →: AI Writes SeinfeldThe other day, I had a friend send me a video of a Seinfeld parody where the characters are from Mario Bros. Since the AI thing has become so prolific and it’s increasingly obvious people are just throwing anything at…
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