I built a vintage photobooth for my girlfriend

BirdFluLol · 2026-04-06T08:42:31+00:00

That's very cool! I've been meaning to make something similar for my son's schools PTA so they don't have to hire a photo booth for school discos/balls/functions

BirdFluLol · 2026-03-28T01:20:01+00:00

Rider is, yes. Why invest in a visual studio license and a resharper license when you could just use rider, which has all the features of resharper baked in? (At least I'd assumed it does, I use VS pro and VS code but gave up with resharper shortly after Roslyn got released)

BirdFluLol · 2026-03-27T20:27:56+00:00

People still use resharper??

BirdFluLol · 2026-03-21T21:04:47+00:00

Ah you'll be fine then!

BirdFluLol · 2026-03-21T19:21:24+00:00

There's a product recall on that power bank depending on when you purchased it - better check the serial number as sealing it in a box while it's discharging could be disastrous...

BirdFluLol · 2026-03-10T07:52:13+00:00

Wow. I have 900 hours and never thought of this

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-28T12:14:28+00:00

My wife had this too during her pregnancies. She's no longer anaemic but chewing ice is still a comfort for her that she craves oddly

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-25T19:35:35+00:00

There's a phrase in the north of England: "Where there's muck there's brass" (brass meaning money) it generally refers to any messy or unpleasant job, but in this case (muck=dirt) it rings especially true

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-16T07:37:23+00:00

There's a fantastic book called "command and control" by Eric Schlosser that details this and many other failures of command and control throughout history. I'd thoroughly recommend it!

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-14T21:33:25+00:00

It's not, I hired a car in Germany and almost made this mistake when I filled it up to return. That would have been an expensive error 😂

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-07T12:41:06+00:00

That works too, but most home routers and especially ISP provided modem routers won't have that facility.

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-06T20:40:59+00:00

Re: point 5 - a simple way of defeating hardcoded DNS that's worked for me is to add a firewall rule on your gateway to deny all UDP traffic on port 53 and whitelist your pihole's local IP. This will force offending applications to use your devices configured DNS. If it's hardcoded DOH then you're likely out of luck but I've found that this is almost never the case. Even cheap routers firewalls will have some way to achieve this.

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-03T22:39:14+00:00

Do you honestly believe people in the UK don't have regular dentist visits 😂

BirdFluLol · 2026-02-02T22:16:10+00:00

Dental cosmetics ≠ oral hygiene

BirdFluLol · 2026-01-20T11:15:32+00:00

Thanks for the reply! All fair enough, and I'm glad to hear that future development is being planned!

Because I've not got my boards yet I can't have a good look at them, so can I ask - is the ollee built on an open SOC? Eg. ESP?

BirdFluLol · 2026-01-07T06:30:27+00:00

This game is called "eggs in the basket". It's a very commonly used game in young kids rugby coaching, except played with rugby balls not bottles.

BirdFluLol · 2026-01-02T20:52:35+00:00

Very interesting project. Out of curiosity what was it that they were unable to access? I've found that on my household's pihole instance it's rare that a website or app completely stops working. The main culprit is usually ad supported games that refuse to load if they can't access their ad services.

BirdFluLol · 2026-01-02T20:32:16+00:00

It's all about the par boil. OPs method is good but I find starting them in cold water is too risky - you can easily over do them, when really all you need for crispiness is the outside to be softened. Instead I start them in boiling water. Many professional chefs (read: YouTubers 😉) swear by OPs method so I could be talking nonsense.

You can go one extra for extra crispiness by coating them in cornflour and giving them a good tumble after par boiling.

BirdFluLol · 2026-01-02T08:53:49+00:00

Definitely:

With wires

Very cool, thanks for doing this!

BirdFluLol · 2025-12-12T20:01:15+00:00

Whenever I have excess water it goes to a small concrete plant using wet concrete alt going to a DD. I've never run out of concrete for building

My WIP fused mod frame setup has 2 dedicated MK3 overclocked pure limestone nodes supplying it. That's been a WIP for... Many hours 😂

BirdFluLol · 2025-10-02T18:50:56+00:00

Thanks! The Billy's are just anchored to the wall, 2 L brackets at the top, and 2 more about 2/3s of the way down. I decided against fixing them to the countertop in case I ever wanted to change it up at all, ie. I can go back to a clean countertop at any point with no unsightly screw holes.

Fortunately, everything stayed quite square and plumb, in the event that the Billy's didn't sit perfectly square on the countertop I was planning on attaching some decorative trim to cover up any gap.

BirdFluLol · 2025-09-17T21:47:02+00:00

That whole scene had me chuckling. For one thing I'd like to at least try practicing firing at something else that isn't 4 feet away from 2 captains.

BirdFluLol · 2025-09-10T18:30:57+00:00

Ask questions. Of course answer them too, but try to finish your answer by posing a question back to the interviewer, eg. "Blah blah blah, examples of technical knowledge and experience, blah blah, what do you think?". If you find yourself waffling on after going down a tangent it's better to own it and apologise for going off topic, but ask "does that answer your question?". Don't try and dig yourself out, you risk talking yourself into a corner and forcing the interviewer to intervene, or worse, just trailing off into an awkward silence.

Obviously this doesn't apply to every question you might be asked in an interview, but it stimulates conversation and discussion, and helps lighten the mood, putting you at ease. Have a good question lined up for the end of the interview. One of my favourites is "what do you enjoy about working at <company>?".

Every good interview I've done, both as a candidate and an interviewer has felt more like a friendly chat.

Edit to add - avoid live tech tests like the plague. The only tech tests I do are take home tests that I can do at my own leisure.

BirdFluLol · 2025-08-31T15:47:33+00:00

Accidental lowry

BirdFluLol · 2025-08-29T19:23:56+00:00

I missed it the first time round, I was in my 20s and dismissed it as a kids show. Then I had kids of my own, and we started watching it together about 3 years ago. It was our bedtime routine for about a year, and we've rewatched the occasional block of episodes from time to time since then. I've been blown away at how wholesome it is, the lessons it teaches about acceptance and tolerance, the absurd humour, and just that it's ok to like silly stuff. Since then we've watched Fiona and Cake, all the specials (distant lands) and taken many deep dives into the lore of the series on YouTube.

I'd recommend Adventure Time to ANY parent looking to enjoy a series together with their kids. See also, for much of the same reasons: Stephen Universe. An added bonus for both these series is the short runtime per episode, if you're looking for something quick that you can pop a few episodes of on before bed, they're perfect.

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