👍Maximum Derek👍

That’s probably me, I’ve been playing a non-steam installed version of KSP for a month or so.

Dave Davies of The Kinks changed rock music with a razor blade. Distortion pedals existed but they couldn’t provide the same kind of fuss sound that we hear in “You Really Got Me”… but a year later they could.

It’s a decent general purpose data formatter (like “convert this giant json to yaml”) but there are other ways to do that.

It’s ok at being able to ask questions of documentation, as long as you don’t take anything at face value. Really if you understand 90% of something its not bad at giving you the missing 10%. And it makes me a bit faster when I go back to bash, the anti-bicycle, after a break.

And I find myself not writing as many IDE snippets because AI is good at super repetitive stuff like, “wrap this promise in an async function.” That’s not the best example but it’s what I could think of quickly.

For me it has to be the end of In The Pale Moonlight

So I will learn to live with it…Because I can live with it…I can live with it.

Computer – erase that entire personal log.

Gives me chills

There are quite a few but none are super active.

Electronics / microcontrollers.

Took just a few months to go from, “I can make a wifi connected weather station for like $20 in components!?” to “oscilloscopes cost how much?”

A “Bullet” style Fisher Space Pen.

People need pens more often than you’d think and you can be their hero. They’re nigh indestructible in a bag or pocket and the thick ink will write on many things a normal ballpoint pen can’t. I’ve written on ceramic, glass, wet cardboard, and one time (in the 90’s) high school cafeteria roast beef.

The only downside is that if you damage the tiny ball in the ballpoint pentip and then don’t use the pen again for a while, the sticky ink can ooze out and make a mess inside the lid.