#14

Stage #14 (yesterday) A year ago I picked up the 2022 and 2023 "Conservation Breed Fiber Bundles" from The Woolery, which contain 250g of top from Devon, Exmoor Horn, Manx Loaghtan, Welsh, Wenslydale, Swaledale, and Jacob, plus 500g of Lonk. I've done nothing with them since, but now seemed a good time to do so! I measured out 50g (1.8 oz) of each with the plan to just spin each one and experience the differences in the fibers. Simply handling them demonstrated just how different each is from the others! I chose 50g as it was a perfect amount to spin on my Nano's 2 oz bobbins, leaving the EEW 6.1 free for other projects. Or so I thought! I started with the plentiful Lonk because it felt the best pairing for husky fur in future blendings: soft and fluffy and very white. However, I REALLY fought with the Nano, trying to get the speed and tension right. I just could NOT get it to take up properly! After getting through about 1/3, I gave up on that setup, but in one final act of desperation I tried putting the Nano bobbin on the 6.1 and it fit! I was able to continue with much better control over tension. I managed to get in some pretty decent long-draw drafting and finished the batch. I was trying for a bit thicker, loftier yarn than I'm used to with dog fur, and I'm pretty happy with the final results. There are still some thin sections I might have gone back and fixed, but I kept these in as part of the learning process. #TourDeFleece #TourDeFleece2026 #HandSpinning

Video Dispatch #14: Pay to Disable Features that are more profitable as a detriment than a benefit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BECMsuhX6Zw 1/7

Ways to make yourself impopular in this nook of the fediverse #14: write about LLMs in a way that isn't doomsday-ish. Oh well, here goes nothing. A blog post about my experience using Claude Code almost exclusively for the last month-and-a-bit creating lots of #elixir and #lisp. https://cdegroot.com/programming/2026/08/03/ai.html

#bikepacking trip, day #14. We took the morning ferry from Lysenbotn to Lauvvika and then cycled to Stavanger, where we explore the city a bit before boarding the ferry to Hirtshals. 64 km. #cycling #norway #norge #stavanger

Sysadmin rule #14: The only thing worse than going with your least appalling idea is to do nothing.

Hey #woodworking folks! I got a question for ya. How would you estimate the safe load for L brackets? Steel with triangle braces. Going through drywall into studs with #14 x 2.5" lag screws. 8 brackets holding up the wood (another 3 are slightly too low. Not sure if I can easily move them up) Another note, for a few of them the drywall had maybe a 1/4" gap between it and the stud. I screwed things down so they were tight, but tried to avoid bending/cracking the drywall noticeably.

Glass half empty: Wow. They're not even trying to convincingly fake this cheapo SSD's SMART self-test status. 21 entries, each permanently at 50%, all at the exact hour that the last test was started? Nobody believes this. (Also, I wonder what else they're faking) SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 2 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 3 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 4 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 5 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 6 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 7 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 8 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - # 9 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #10 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #11 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #12 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #13 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #14 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #15 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #16 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #17 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #18 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #19 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #20 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - #21 Offline Self-test routine in progress 50% 795 - Glass half full: My bare-metal backup and restore routine has never been more tested (and improved from what it was) than it currently is. 😂

2026 Movies #14 Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh (2025) Truly unhinged. Love. https://boxd.it/dq2ydb

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VF7vbmGwt9Y (ハーピー) (#14) #ウマ娘 #スーパー戦隊

@dansup@mastodon.social Loops seems to be #14 in the app store for the Netherlands: https://apps.apple.com/nl/iphone/charts/6005 Has there been a noticeable influx of dutch people? :P

AI bez lukru #14: Czy AI może się zbuntować z nudów? Cześć! Z tej strony Tomek Turba. AI bez lukru to cykl moich felietonów o sztucznej inteligencji bez marketingowego lukru, bez korporacyjnych slajdów i bez bajek o „rewolucji, która wszystko zmieni”. Pokazuję AI taką, jaka jest naprawdę: z absurdami, wpadkami, halucynacjami i konsekwencjami, o których rzadko mówi się głośno. Bez zadęcia,... #Aktualności #Teksty #Ai #BezLukru #BuntAi #Felietion https://sekurak.pl/ai-bez-lukru-14-czy-ai-moze-sie-zbuntowac-z-nudow/

New Year’s Rsolution #14 Go Space Truckin’.