Never frustrated? Never learning. I'd like to take a minute to point out a failure of mine. After almost 20 years of enterprise software development I'm working to expand my skills into fabrication. I wanted to make a bunch of indexing locations to help with seating dimensional lumber on my milling machine. I got it wrong... More than once. First time I decided to flip over the spoil board and try again. Burying my mistakes. This time; that luxury is already spent. CNC, 3D Printing, small electronics and construction. None of them come naturally to me the way that software development does. Perhaps it's my aphantasia but I can think for hours about how to lay things out but when it comes down to it; numbers just come out wrong sometimes. What's a guy to do? Give up because of mistakes? Gosh no. My mind is drawn back to university when I was studying 2nd year neuroscience as an interest course trying to figure out how learning actually works. I oversimplify here; but doing things that push you up against the boundary of getting frustrated is the best way to learn. So what if I'm deeply seated on the left side of the Dunning-Kruger curve for this new skillset? It's better than getting complacent and being a stagnant expert. Tell me; what do you do to get out of your comfort zone and get into the learning seat? What's your frontier of learning?

#notai That is all.

Be honest. You can tell me. What's your biggest @AutomationDirec order. Don't worry; I won't tell your partner.

What's the best way to pull dandelions? (Psst; don't worry tech bros -- this one's secretly an allegory for you) Most people see a dandelion grab its leaves and pull. However that's what we've done since time immemorial and wouldn't you believe; dandelions have figured it out. The plant is particularly pernicious because it treats the leaves as relatively disposable. It just grows back. The next group is smarter - they dig around and loosen the soil before they pull. Getting most of the roots and often having nothing grow back. However -- the piece that's missing for these is recognition of dandelions as an indicator species. In an open field dandelions grow where it's too dark, compact or low nutrient for grass. The easiest and best solution is actually to dig a hole a couple inches around the dandelion, turn the whole clump of dirt upside down, grab the root from the bottom and shake it out from the thatch. The dandelion slips easily through the thatch, the soil is loosened and the overturned thatch decomposes and provides nutrients. Sunlight is still a potential issue but it doesn't fit the allegory. "Okay but... I live in Circuit City on Concrete Blvd. Why do I care?" Good question. It's an allegory for fighting bugs in your code. Pulling dandelions is resolving tickets. They said, "the button doesn't work for me." Test show it works so you add a toast showing what happened? Pulling leaves. Checking the frontend code and discovering that it doesn't load the click listener in a corner case? Pulling roots. Meeting the stakeholder and finding out that they actually meant was that the button should be a switch because they don't like the text changing to "off" when they press it? That's solving for the environment a problem lives in. Code is cheap these days, look to solve the specification not just the surface effects.

You gotta do a oscilloscope module. A framework native oscilloscope would be so cool. @i2cjak

Going on a walk in the forest so of course I'm stylemaxxing. You know how we do.

I've got a farm implement (a spring tine harrow from the 80's) that needs new wheels. Problem is; nobody make wheels for the axles that are on it. And nobody makes a new axle with a 3/4" kingpin bore hole. So... of course I'm going to buy 3/4" stock steel from Home Depot and rent a blacksmith shop so I can use their metal lathe to add threading to the ends. Like any reasonable person would.

Am I going to need to write my own CAM kernel? I like Kiri:Moto -- but if I see "webGPU failed to initialize" one more time imma lose my cool. No; I'm not going to use Fusion360 -- off-site data storage and constant rotation of free tier capabilities is a game over for me.

Still cooking.

A pair of glasses I wear daily had it's plastic frame randomly break yesterday. So I did what any reasonable person would do; got my Dremel tool out, fixtured the glasses in a vice, drilled out a small hole, filled it with a short length of spring and super glue and put them back on. Any reasonable person would do that... right?