mr's Preposter.us Blog

As I dive into the Mark II changes the choice of display is at the top of my list.

I'm not sure if that's the right word for it, but I'm learning that my role, at this point of my life, might be to show a glimpse of what is possible, as an antidote to the status quo.

My friend Preston gave me a great bit of advice yesterday: "I've done the dishes and made the bed as a preemptive strike against accomplishing nothing today - so no matter what happens now I have at least that going for me" This might sound trite or silly…

So far I've had pretty good luck with the new printer (Pepper), but this one got away from her.

Another short post to test the freshly-added RSS-hints tags to see if they are going to work without a fight, or if it's going to get messy.

Just a quick test after switching the upstream.

Now that the Type-0 project has my attention again I've been revisiting it's design and applying everything I've learned since the last time I worked on it to a new iteration.

Last night I read this post about Beagle Bros software and it reminded me of the most important thing to me about work: joy.

We're planning a trip to Alaska in the fall and I'm thinking about how it might be a great time to do some writing.

About a year ago I picked-up an Elegoo OrangeStorm Giga and I was knocked-out by it's quality and capability.

* https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/gears.scad * https://www.nexprint.com/en/collection/G8416619 * https://jcs.org/2011/08/29/an_ecobee_automation_hack * https://jcs.org/bluescsi * https://bluescsi.com/ * https://bluescsi.com/docs/ * https://bluesc…

While we were in California I was reading random books I downloaded during the pandemic and got sucked into a book about bioinformatics, (Applied Bioinformatics, Paul M.

This is going to be more work than expected...

About a week ago I launched a poll on the fediverse to gauge interest in a company that produces technology without the use of "AI"*.

I've been working more and more with off-the-shelf 3D printers but I haven't forgotten the importance of the Reprap project.

This morning I was looking at our expenses and our energy bills have gone berserk over the last year while our consumption has actually gone down.

We needed some music at the print shop and vinyl didn't seem practical but Jamie correctly pointed-out that listening to vinyl would force us to take a break occasionally.

pong I've always loved Italian design and wondered why it seems like everything designed in Italy is beautiful.

hello-operator is a command-line file sharing tool.

Forgive me, I'm typing this one with my thumbs.

A friend on the fediverse asked me a very good question during a discussion about work, and the problems of doing quality work when you're abstracted-away from the people who actually need and use the things you make: "What kind of things do you envision…

Thanks ma!

Right day, right title this time!

The Stone Soupuercomputer was an early Beowulf-class cluster assembled from whatever way laying-around.

I could have sworn that I've written about this before, but looking back over the posts in this blog, I don't see it....

I think we've all wondered at one point or another "Who would win a fight between X and Y?".

Yesterday I was reaching-out to an old friend who I've lost contact with over the last few years.

I was going to start a new tradition of posting a song on the first of each month, but then I forgot about that yesterday.

This morning I was talking with Wes about how what I love about making art films is that it removes most of the barriers that get in the way when making non-art films.

Sometime near the end for 2025 I was talking with Jamie about how there's nowhere to go on the Web to learn about new or cool things or to find inspiration without being bombarded by the hellish state of the world.

Damn I just noticed I totally butchered the title of the last Downlink...

Ever since I wrote that post about making the web fast I've been running thought experiments for the various websites I described and for many of them there is a shared keystone: the banking site.

Somewhere around the end of the 1990's a friend told me a story about someone having a conversation with their email autoresponder.

Yesterday while I was writing about rewriting the web, I kind of glossed-over (online) social networks because I thought they did more harm than good.

The Internet isn't slow, but it often feels slow because websites are slow.

To celebrate Jamie & I's 25th anniversary we decided to get a space for our printing activities.

Jason J.

A day late because yesterday was an arctic adventure. * https://www.bluettipower.com/products/ac2a?

A couple years ago we decided to give our parents small Bluetti "solar generators" for xmas.

WARNING: Potential spoilers for One Battle After Another ahead!

I have a small collection of vinyl records, but even with a small collection it's hard for me to keep track of what I have, and suffer the tyranny of choice when I'm trying to select something to play.