Mon: Apr 16, 2018

Monty Python is Coming to Netflix. Hooray! Should have landed yesterday...     #>


Portable DVD Player gets Raspberry Pi Zero Upgrade. Holy crap, that's genius. I have one of those DVD players in the basement just sitting there...     #>


Learning to Weld with 6013 and 7014 Electrodes. Great reference, I keep meaning to get back to the arc welder (I picked up a nice Lincoln wire-feed not too long ago, it's a massive step up from the Harbor Freight one I was using, works sooo much better on thin-walled square tube.)     #>


Climbing or Porn. Hahaha, you have to decide just based on the audio clips. Pretty much not safe for work.     #>


Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes. Apparently a lot of wire bristled grill brushes tend to lose the wires which can end up in food and swallowed, and it's not good. I'm more of the "run the grill on high and incinerate everything" type of griller.     #>


Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Custom Workbench LED Lamp!. Awesome.     #>


Edit your rooted Android hosts file to block ad servers. I'm blocking graph.facebook.com, it's astounding how many apps use that damn thing when I've never tied any app to a FB account.     #>


Space trailers. I like the concept but once again I find myself wondering "how much does the damn thing actually cost?" I hate how hidden these trailer companies are, why can't they just be up-front about pricing?     #>


DietPi, a light-weight distribution (aka "distro") for single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi. Since I use mine as more of a home server than anything I don't need Wolfram or even a desktop installed. This strips most of that out and is considerably lighter on resources than say Raspbian.     #>


Iridium YouTube Extension. I'm still muddling along with YouTubeCenter but I'd love it if the idiots at YouTube would look and take some ideas from these extensions so we just don't need them. There's no reason for the experience to be as bad as it is.     #>


CodeIgniter - Upgrading from 2.2.x to 3.0.x. Solid set of docs, and I was coming from 2.1.x even. Ran into a couple hiccups but overall this doc was a great help.     #>


For $5000, Chevy Will Let You Assemble Your Corvette Z06’s Engine Yourself. That would be an amazing experience. I drove a Z06 last year in Vegas through Dream Racing and stomping on the gas pedal for the straight-away felt like being kicked in the chest, it was incredible.     #>


OKCupid's "removed" Visitor API. Interesting.     #>


How to Install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 & Debian 9. Very helpful since I have some stuff just not ready for PHP7 yet.     #>


The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user. I have a secondary gmail account that I never intentionally use (yet) though I do log in regularly just to check it. I'm still astounded at the amount of people who don't know that's not their email address - and the idiotic companies that don't do any email verification. I've gotten everything from resumes to hotel reservations to the primary account for a Verizon FIOS installation.     #>


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