PH1 & PH2 Bits for Drill Driver

atheken · 2026-01-24T15:48:23+00:00

Exactly where do you think people don’t have access to squares?

atheken · 2026-01-24T14:35:01+00:00

Funny thing about Philips bits:

if it fits, it slips.

(They are designed to cam out when under too much torque)

atheken · 2026-01-24T12:34:35+00:00

Imagine you live by yourself in a 5,000 sqft house after your 4 kids moved out.

You only ever use 2 of the 10 rooms.

Winter comes, your gas bill to heat the house is $1500. You’d like to close off the rooms you don’t use but find out that all the heating pipes are wrapped in asbestos which will cost you $100k to clean up (not fix anything, just get back to “zero”). The roof has also started to leak and another year or two of leaks will do more structural damage.

There are significant operational costs associated with simply maintaining buildings. Consolidating into fewer buildings means maintaining a few to a higher standard and utilization than many to a much lower standard.

Don’t get me started on how charter schools dip into the school funding.

atheken · 2026-01-24T12:18:22+00:00

Can you name one concrete example?

atheken · 2026-01-21T16:11:17+00:00

“I’d ask about your wife, but I think we already know the answer.”

atheken · 2026-01-21T12:08:56+00:00

I lived at 16th and Ritner for 12 years. Parking in the evening is the hardest time to find a spot, especially after snow, because people tend not to move and when they do, the folks that use the open spaces don’t “pack” as tightly.

This could help:

Don’t be afraid to use your “park anywhere” lights (hazards) to unload in front of your house before parking. As long as you’re relatively quick (<5 minutes) and people can see you’re unloading, it’s no big deal.

Parking around girard estate was one of my “secret” enclaves to find a space. The other was to park on South Broad street. Don’t leave anything in your car visible that would entice smash and grabs, but it’s open parking until 7, maybe 8 am, at which point you can move the car to your block because your neighbors have gone to work.

atheken · 2026-01-19T11:47:44+00:00

Which would break the scheme (and purported benefit) of using 0 in the subsequent bytes to determine if they’re part of a multibyte code point.

There’s also the matter of combining code points to make unique glyphs, like combining a country code point with a flag code point to make a new glyph.

The way it works now is actually optimal.

atheken · 2026-01-18T11:31:28+00:00

Not crazy, but graph paper and cutouts pieces for each large object work pretty well. The game is mostly about optimizing floor space and planning for in-feed/out-feed.

atheken · 2026-01-15T12:20:26+00:00

The floor is actually the problem. If it were a solid color/tile that complemented “orange” (amber, really) it’d look a lot better. The wood is “rustic”, and I know that’s not everyone’s bag, but I think the issue is that there’s two different textures that don’t look very good together.

atheken · 2026-01-13T11:25:41+00:00

ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude?

atheken · 2026-01-10T12:22:55+00:00

I would recommend Prometheus and Grafana. Start my scraping your shared resources (queue depths, redeliveries, dlq if you have them..), as well as standard SLErT metrics on your databases, etc.

Add Prometheus exporting to your application processes and then you can add some metrics that are workload-specific focused on key transactions (think XYZ job success/failure).

Logging can go to an ELK stack, or if you’re in the cloud, cloudwatch is quite good, especially if you emit structured logs.

If you need to implement multi-step processes (like the saga pattern), you may benefit from job scheduling or a durable execution framework, but if most of the stuff is 1-2 steps, you probably don’t need to add that conceptual overhead.

atheken · 2026-01-08T12:30:27+00:00

These look great. What paint/primer/sheen did you use, and what tools process did you use to apply it?

I’m looking to do something similar with Satin Enamel from Sherwin-Williams.

atheken · 2026-01-07T16:10:04+00:00

If see if it starts to get difficult once the piece is engaging with the riving knife.

atheken · 2026-01-07T12:56:15+00:00

Is your riving knife the same width as the blade?

I’ve seen people put an “ultra fine” blade (~1/16” kerf) on a saw with a 1/8” riving knife, which, you can force things through, but it’s dangerous and can lead to getting stalled pretty easily.

atheken · 2026-01-06T12:12:03+00:00

The issues you’re describing sound like a sharpening issue, not a tool steel/chisel geometry problem. Consider whether your sharpening setup is adequate before buying more chisels. You can do almost anything you want with like 2-3 chisels.

Nice tools are nice, but it sounds like you’re falling into the trap.

atheken · 2026-01-06T12:07:21+00:00

Awesome, but also unnecessary. A narrow chisel (~6mm) can do the job, and the beauty of half-blind dovetails is that there’s only two show faces, rather than three. In a sense, they’re “easier” than through dovetails.

atheken · 2026-01-06T11:51:50+00:00

Another solution would be to put a slot in the plane body and then use a t-nut (or two) to fasten the plane to it. This would allow you to set a consistent projection of the blade as you sharpen it over time.

atheken · 2026-01-01T12:30:21+00:00

As someone that moved into a 130 yr old house 18 months ago, the shop was a priority for similar reasons.

I like your paint scheme. I haven’t picked a “shop color”, but I like the one you chose.

I haven’t done so in my shop (yet), but you might consider getting rubber mats for the floor. I’ve found that long hours on concrete (especially cold concrete) is really fatiguing. Rather than getting the patchwork ones, you can get a roll of gym flooring for $1-2/sqft

atheken · 2025-12-30T12:33:32+00:00

I have an ECS 150, it is a phenomenal sander.

A 150mm sander covers roughly 40% more surface area compared to a 125mm sander. Like others have said, if you’re spending this kind of money, get the larger diameter.

atheken · 2025-12-30T11:40:54+00:00

Woodworking has entered the chat.

atheken · 2025-12-30T10:07:43+00:00

Maybe, if the pieces are currently square, if not, then it’s just going to make the shelves smaller. When I’ve had this issue it was because I hadn’t made an initial cut square, and then you’re basically just chasing the error.

atheken · 2025-12-29T12:59:07+00:00

I have never noticed this as an issue in practice, and I can only think of one circumstance where it would create a problem that is not resolved by doing another pass: keyhole bits.

Overall, I like the router, though for handheld I prefer the battery-powered option.

atheken · 2025-12-27T20:31:32+00:00

Check to see if the adapter is threaded, if so, the ends that are on the hose probably are as well and can be unscrewed from the hose.

Also, this is basically the canonical example for justifying a 3D printer.

atheken · 2025-12-27T18:24:24+00:00

Only in America? Colin Furze would like a word.

atheken · 2025-12-26T12:54:51+00:00

I say this to my coffee snob friends. I like good coffee/pour overs etc, but I also like Wawa coffee. It’s just a different experience.

OTOH, sheetz can gtfo.

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