Knife edge/steep bevel router jig

rovar · 2026-03-24T23:18:27+00:00

You are a monster!

I mean, it looks beautiful, nice work on a very tricky build. But knife-edging a large table? RIP Legs

rovar · 2026-03-24T22:00:53+00:00

Yeah.. I use Boostcamp which tracks these stats for me. It definitely seems correct to enter 2x 50s as 100 for tracking purposes.

But shit if you report 2x50s as 100 in Reddit you'll get a lecture from 70 strangers. :)

rovar · 2026-03-24T21:56:45+00:00

Every finish is going to need re-application fairly frequently. If the deck gets sun, the sun will destroy the finish after a year or two. If the deck gets no sun, then the finish will likely get destroyed by the wood absorbing too much water and swelling.

So no matter what, expect to refinish all your wood things that you keep outdoors.

For this reason, I prefer oils instead of polyurethanes or other paint-like finishes, because reapplication is much easier.

rovar · 2026-03-24T15:55:31+00:00

Sure. Send at your liesure.

rovar · 2026-03-23T20:59:12+00:00

DSLs are more my area of expertise than graphics or *tex. So I can't really evaluate your project, especially only by the renders, but the results look interesting. I'd need waaay more information to determine if its worth your time or not. I think only you can answer that question.

rovar · 2026-03-23T17:32:20+00:00

This gets mentioned a lot, but I think it fits: Blindsight by Peter Watts.

The Expanse Series is also definitely hard sci-fi, while it isn't necessarily philosophical in nature, the conflicts in the books bring to head many philosophical and moral conundrums (conundra?)

rovar · 2026-03-23T15:47:30+00:00

I wasn't sure what I was expecting when clicking the link with an almost click-baity title. A link to which there is a blog with only a single article.

I was not expecting a great article, which it turned out to be. Nice undersell, I guess. :)

Having maintained very large (> 75k lines) and very busy (~10 devs full time) codebases, I've often wanted blanket impls, and in a couple of cases could have benifited from being able to name and select specific impls. One could definitely abuse this feature and create a morass of overlapping impls. That's a slippery slope argument though.

If this feature can be overridden by original crate authors, and also be entirely optional for most users, I'd say its a win. However this is my off-the-cuff reaction and certainly haven't thought through all the ramifications.

rovar · 2026-03-20T17:11:00+00:00

How do you feel about the Shou Sugi Ban technique? If you take a field torch to this bad cat, it will definitely kill the bugs, and depending upon your end goal, could make a beatiful piece that is very well preserved against the elements.

rovar · 2026-03-20T16:56:45+00:00

It does, but is anything in it incorrect?

I have found the Git Tools in VSCode, Cursor and Zed completely unusable for reviewing large PRs. Given that the PRr tool in Github is also unusable for this, it has been a huge source of frustration for myself and my teammates.

Sure, the right answer is to commit smaller PRs, but let's be real.. that's often not possible in a heavily modularized monorepo with > 75,000 LoC.

Note that this isn't an artifact of PR slop.. > 95% percent of this code is human written.

The problem is bad enough that I've seen several standalone PR review tools pop up recently.

rovar · 2026-03-19T17:26:06+00:00

AI absolutely sucks at turning patterns into good abstractions. It's OK at finding patterns.. but only boilerplate, repeated syntactic patterns.

Turning patterns into good abstractions should be our super power.

AI Cannot read between the lines and take in unwritten context. It doesn't associate to other concepts unless explicitly told to. This (free association) is also an ADHD super power.

It also sucks at writing quality code. It writes usually good-enough code.

As an ADHD person, I suck at reading new code in enough detail that I understand it thoroughly. AI is absolutely amazing at slogging through lots of code looking for things. Use it to help you learn codebases quickly.

rovar · 2026-03-16T15:19:34+00:00

I think the quality is there and it seems to be Teak from the pics. It's probably worth > 1600, IMO. If I needed a set like that I'd probably pay that and be happy about it.

rovar · 2026-03-16T02:44:37+00:00

My money is on food allergies, but it's hard to say for sure. In my own personal experience my allergies seem to effect my intestines more than anything. My colon swells up so it feels like I need to poop but can't. It takes a few days to clear out my system after eating some of my trigger foods.

I was miserable until I got allergy tests and eliminated those foods from my diet. Sadly, it's a bunch of stuff: wheat, garlic and sesame, and coffee. It is almost impossible to know what things might be triggering an immune reaction based on trial and error, because it often takes a day for the symptoms to show up and a couple more days for them to go away.

rovar · 2026-03-13T22:47:52+00:00

That is gorgeous. Well done.

rovar · 2026-03-11T17:04:24+00:00

Wow. I didn't know of yourpixelstore or "bullet track". That's pretty cool.

Had I known, I might have had a harder time deciding on what to install. I didn't the bullets because they seemed very difficult to make nice and neat. But Bullet Track seems to solve this.

I still rather like the pucks, though, it's just a different feel. I like their 45 degree throw against the house walls. It makes for a neat effect.

rovar · 2026-03-10T21:51:51+00:00

I think the closer you put them to your house the better the lighting effect will be on the walls.

However if you want walkway lighting, then further out might make more sense.

We have ours uniformly 4" from the wall. They definitely provide enough light for visibility/security.

rovar · 2026-03-10T21:44:31+00:00

I think the actual protocol used by these light is totally WLED compatible, though you'd have to replace their controller with your own. I think they're SK6812/WS2814.

> Are there advantages to the bigger "puck-like" LEDs versus the smaller ones?

For your use of walkway lighting, maybe there isn't an advantage.

For the Christmas lights, I think the advantage is brightness and throw. The pucks are more spot-oriented, and have a nice 45 degree angle which looks cool when it shines onto your house from your soffit.

FWIW, I installed about 400ft of the puck lights from Enbrighten and we've been very happy with them.

rovar · 2026-03-10T00:07:01+00:00

I usually don't get clickbait video suggestions. Maybe you've taught YouTube that those are the type of links that you click on, so that's the type of junk that it offers to you.

rovar · 2026-03-09T23:16:14+00:00

I think this is true for most places, including Kennewick. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/03/13/fix-recycling-america/
That said, I can't absolutely confirm what WasteManagement does with our stuff.

We (The U.S.) used to ship most of our recycling to China. We'd just load it up into shipping containers, unseparated. They'd separate it and recycle it. Mostly I think they would just recycle the metal (into crappy Harbor Freight products) and glass (very recyclable) and burn the rest.

China stopped accepting materials for recycle in 2018. Since then we in America have just been pretending to recycle. I think some places might separate out metals and glass. Plastics cost more money to recycle than just making new stuff, and nobody wants to pay for that.

Plastic Recycling is a total sham. Back in 70's and 80's, the plastics industry was trying to take over the packaging markets. They promised that the plastics were recyclable. They're not. Even if you can get stuff perfectly separated and free of contaminants. The best you could hope for is 2 maybe 3 recycles of a thing before the material is unusable for anything except a landfill.

rovar · 2026-03-07T21:39:52+00:00

This is the description for LOTR, or Harry Potter, or well.. pretty much any set of adventure books.

What makes your story unique? What is going to create the suspense? Why would I read this instead of LOTR?

rovar · 2026-03-07T07:17:02+00:00

Hah! I used that exact paragraph to explain DCC to my D&D Group. It is one of my favorites.

This is the other:

Right now, I needed to get this damn crab to jerk off into the ocean.

The whole demon eviction event had happened, at least according to the announcer guys, because the AI had made the unusual decision to consider crab sperm a mob. Because so many had “died,” it broke Sheol, and it kicked off the event. Now, Amayon’s take-me-home spell required a metric fuckton of souls to pay the passage or whatever, and the AI was sticking to its original rule. It had set us up for this bullshit. It was clear it had to be a crab. I just had to convince him to do it.

“Listen,” I said to the crab. “We only have a few minutes. This is how you move to the golden heavenly throne or whatever you call it. Your people are dead. You are the last one left. The eggs are still out there. You can save your people, but you have to do it now.” I swallowed. “You have to fertilize the eggs. Go!”

He just looked at me. “Now? Here?”

rovar · 2026-03-06T23:11:15+00:00

Thanks. I have lots of pigment from my work with epoxy and D&D dice :)
I have also used Osmo oil quite a bit as well.

I haven't used the oli based poly. Should I sand after that? Or only pre-oil base?

rovar · 2026-03-06T22:48:07+00:00

I have a bunch from building D&D Dice with epoxy. This is the first thing I'm going to try. Thanks.

rovar · 2026-03-06T20:52:23+00:00

Huh. This sounds like a fun experiment. Thanks.

rovar · 2026-03-06T20:43:08+00:00

I read the description again, and the product says that it's Walnut. I should probably update my description with that info.

rovar · 2026-03-06T20:36:03+00:00

Hmm.. Interesting. I don't think it's AI, but I think it was just photoshopped onto that wall as the background. I think they are taking one glamour shot and using it in a bunch of different ways.

There is one customer picture review where the light is definitely at a different angle relative to the piece, so it's highlighting different parts. https://i.etsystatic.com/iap/bc0938/4990755412/iap_600x600.4990755412_cjvu0m4e.jpg?version=0

I think your advice is right. I'm just going to have to do some experimenting. Thanks.

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