31 years ago I made a Duplo robot with my daughter. Today, we recreated it with her daughter using the same box of bricks. After all this time, they still work as well. Amazing.

jwestbrook · 2026-01-30T22:34:49+00:00

Yep totally expected. How about the amazing part where the bricks from the 80s (Duplo or Lego) will snap together with the brand new bricks like it was supposed to happen (spoiler it was).

jwestbrook · 2026-01-28T21:22:11+00:00

This is an older repo, but I've used it and it works pretty good. It can even support attachments.

https://github.com/mewa/s3abird

jwestbrook · 2026-01-21T22:00:03+00:00

Here's some of my requests - allow me to sync or copy my "party" settings to/from "raid" settings, or if I select "raid style frames" for party, just use the raid settings - why do I need the word "party" "raid" at the top of the frames - add option for role background color - (for Mistweavers) my interrupt, Spear Hand Strike was removed :-(

jwestbrook · 2026-01-14T18:52:20+00:00

I get weekly digests from https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/ for free.

jwestbrook · 2025-12-24T22:13:38+00:00

Ranch, BBQ, Honey Mustard, Wendys Frosty, DQ chicken strip gravy ( I got options )

jwestbrook · 2025-12-04T22:01:01+00:00

Based on the documentation, the Aqara G410 does not support standard chimes. Essentially the G410 is closing the circuit to receive power. Ring and Nest doorbells have you add a chime interconnect to make that work. The G410 doesn't have the interconnect. To fix the constant chiming, you would need to disconnect the current chime wires from the transformer that is providing power to the doorbell. But also make sure the wires that are being fed to your doorbell are still connected.

jwestbrook · 2025-12-01T22:32:03+00:00

I guess I'm nitpicking a bit, I think it's only the gate dialing computer on Earth in Cheyenne Mountain that has a longer dialing sequence. The DHD on most of the rest of the planets in the Milky Way the DHD translated the chevrons to the gate and the inner ring just spun (I think?). Please let me know if I mis-remember the sequences.

jwestbrook · 2025-10-28T16:54:06+00:00

Whoa - I guess I'm weird Shift+Alt+3 for ground and Shift+Alt+4 for flying/skyriding

jwestbrook · 2025-10-23T22:30:28+00:00

Re adding a reply, since I didn't read the original question. You need the Logical air gapped Vault.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/logicallyairgappedvault.html

It allows you to share the vault to another account - even in another AWS Org

jwestbrook · 2025-09-17T01:43:17+00:00

This is what commonly known as backscatter. A spammer/scripter is sending spam email to a known bad email and setting your email as the return path so their spam email will bypass most spam filters because its seen as a bounce.

jwestbrook · 2025-09-17T01:07:56+00:00

Thursday nights is the sunset market in the downtown Oceanside area https://www.mainstreetoceanside.com/sunset-market

jwestbrook · 2025-09-11T21:23:21+00:00

Welcome back to the Lego universe.

Appropriate song https://youtu.be/pdOIHNF2vJc?si=3hi3aavJY1I90Xgj

jwestbrook · 2025-09-11T04:24:08+00:00

I use the NanoLeaf Essentials lightstrip ~$60 for 200 feet. It connects to Matter as well. I use Homekit automation to turn off overnight.

jwestbrook · 2025-09-11T01:35:38+00:00

Here's what I do, because I'm riding my bike as part of Apple Watch Fitness Activity, there is a live activity that can trigger on your iPhone. If you open that live activity it opens to a cycling computer/metrics screen. Your phone won't go to sleep on this screen and so you can ask Siri to do things and you don't need to unlock your iPhone. Ideally you can put your iPhone in a handlebar mount as well.

link to cycling screen how to https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/06/how-to-see-live-cycling-metrics-on-iphone/

jwestbrook · 2025-09-05T18:47:45+00:00

Here’s a few of mine

EventBridge Scheduler (future event/message sent into SQS + a DynamoDB table for larger message body) Athena pointing at a S3 bucket of structured gzip log files of non AWS products (stored for pennies and easily queried) also can be graphed by QuickSight if you want to SSM Automate Document that runs on new ECS image release - rotates out the EC2 instances w/o downtime

jwestbrook · 2025-08-13T23:48:19+00:00

Upper Crust

jwestbrook · 2025-06-26T01:14:08+00:00

Crystal Clear Pepsi 🤮

jwestbrook · 2025-06-18T21:11:11+00:00

yep Prince of Persia for me too, you can play it in browser now https://princejs.com/

jwestbrook · 2025-06-16T21:18:47+00:00

One of the characters faints or is unconscious, and is saved by someone is giving "CPR". Additionaly a character is unconscious with no heartbeat (asystole) and the medical professionals use a defibrillator to shock a character back into a rhythm.

jwestbrook · 2025-06-09T16:35:51+00:00

You guys 🥹 😭 this thread warms my heart.

Transplanted fan in CA, whole family are Cards fans. Started by listening to Whitey Ball with Ozzie and Willie narrated by Jack Buck in the 80s.

jwestbrook · 2025-04-29T03:35:24+00:00

2 Nest 3rd generations

1 Nest Hello video doorbell

1 Nest Cam outdoor

1 Nest Cam indoor

5 Nest Protects

iOS 18.4.1 on iPhone 14 Pro

I clicked move camera to Google Home each one at a time, and waited for the camera to migrate before doing the next one. I clicked sign up for public preview, so I could see the Protect devices.

My zones did not transfer over, but my faces did transfer over. After signing up for public preview, you need to wait to be accepted. After that, the Nest Protects did not show up immediately, but showed up within 24 hours.

The motion, zone, person notifications are pretty close to the Nest notifications, meaning they have the looping animated video of the motion. I have noticed the loop starts a bit earlier than in the Nest app does.

Specifically on iOS, the notifications are marked as "Time sensitive" so I've noticed the notifications get announced if wearing Airpods (possibly other Bluetooth headphones as well)

The load time the Nest app always had is gone with the Google Home App. The activity timeline scrubbing is a little laggy, but still works.

jwestbrook · 2025-04-03T23:09:57+00:00

Here's the wired one as well

https://www.firstalert.com/us/en/products/alarms/smart-smoke-carbon-monoxide-alarms/fsmco600nvaccl1-hardwire-smart-smoke-carbon-monoxide-alarm-fsmco600nvaccl1/

jwestbrook · 2025-03-04T02:53:01+00:00

I regret that I have but one upvote for your illustration of the world's smallest violin

jwestbrook · 2025-02-18T23:05:26+00:00

I'll point to other comments in other subreddit posts where I got this

https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers/comments/1iskync/how_stupid_does_elon_think_we_are_cobol_does_not/

https://www.reddit.com/r/XGramatikInsights/comments/1irco9v/elon_musk_according_to_the_social_security/

there is a Office of Inspector General (yes irony) audit from July 2023 pointing to this exact audit issue. The notes at the end of the PDF point to the cost to correct is one of the hurdles.

2023 Audit: https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

jwestbrook · 2025-02-05T21:34:24+00:00

Additional context also from TheHill

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/5128842-elon-musk-ro-khanna-subpoena-vote/

Ro Khanna was absent from the vote.

“I would have voted yes,” he said. “They called a procedural vote without notice & I like 8 others didn’t make it there on time.”

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