I’m a terrible drummer, but I’ve been getting out of my comfort zone and working on learning to produce full tracks. It’s been an adventure focusing on more of music than just hitting things with sticks.
Ay I’m a terrible lead guitarist. Finally learning to open up the fretboard and play over backing tracks in whatever key
Plus, learning some crowd pleasers rather than obscure folk punk songs so maybe I can play a gig one day
I’ve been learning how to take care of the exterior of a car better.
I got to a stage now where I can clean it without messing up the clear, polish out defects when necessary and protect it with a bit of sealant.
God I wish I had a garage. It would be so much easier.
If you guys are interested, the Forensic Detailing Channel on youtube is a gem. Jon has loads of experience, no BS sponsors at all, and he’s really chill.
Also I wish birds would stop shitting on my car!!! 😭
Hand tool woodworking, refurbishing antique tools and furniture, building a home lab server, learning Ubuntu/Debian/arch, welding/soldering eyeglasses, 3d printing, milling rifles, lockpicking, cooking Indian, Japanese, and Cajun food, building custom furniture, fixing clocks, rebuilding engines, removing rust and japanning metal, playing piano, identifying specific architecture, being more supportive to friends, building a community action group, sharpening blades, trusting others to make decisions, sign language, and raising a daughter to be an assertive mastermind.
Who are you, the fucking Renaissance man? Goddamn.
I’ve been trying to be for 20 years. You’re the second person in that time to call me that, and you made my day for it.
This was not a: “tell me you have ADHD without telling me you have ADHD” haha.
Sounds awesome with all of these projects. I am the same way.
Some of the projects have to be isolated, since they’re so drastically different. I don’t totally understand it, but I can’t woodwork and homelab in the same evening. It’s like they use such incompatible parts of my brain they have to be separated by several hours, or I’ll just stare at the terminal or workbench and not know what to do.
I’m impressed that you can keep track of all of these projects. I can never find my tools. Some tools are in the shed, because i most often need them there, but sometimes I need those tools inside, so I have my tools scattered between inside and outside and in between. So before I get started on a project I’m burned out by searching for tools and suddenly I’m too hungry.
I use a modular toolbox setup. Each chest or box has everything I need for one task. One box for electrical work, one for plumbing, one for painting, welding, simple repairs, power tools, etc. I also have a modular tool belt, and the most used tools in pouches on the outside of the box. On top of that, I have a small drawer with my inside tools in the house, screwdriver set, multitool, tape measure, utility knife, markers and hammer.
It helps immensly
Damn, that’s the dream. Which toolbox(es) do you have? I’ve been looking for something to organise my tools, but I’ve hit analysis paralysis wall every time I’ve started looking into it.
I got a killer deal on toughbuilt boxes when Lowes first got the stacktech. They’re great. Heavy as hell, but I’m big so I don’t mind it. With how expensive they are, I’m not sure i would get them again if they were normal price, though. I also lucked out when the toughbuilt modular belts were being clearances out through menards a year or two ago. Got way more pouches than I’ll ever need for 3 or 4 bucks each. Again, at the regular price, I’d stick to my leather apron belt. 50 bucks for a tool pouch? Get fucked.
Menards just recently got stacktech stuff in, but it’s regular price at the moment. Anything that ends up there will eventually be on clearance though, so if you live near one, keep an eye out.
Side note for your analysis paralysis, I’ve used a few box sets and can give opinions. Milwaukee is too expensive and the connection system is irritating and overcomplicated. Klein and stanley are both a lot more flimsey than the major sets, but I still haven’t broken my stably box after several years of abuse. It just bends a lot. The FLEX toolboxes seem like the highest quality of the bunch, but I have no idea how much they cost. If I recall correctly, they’re also slightly smaller than the toughbuilt and Milwaukee, in a way that makes them seem more convient.
I looked at some clones by Keter, but the quality seemed like a major step down for not much of a discount.
Off grid communication ,meshcore, reticulum
Rectuluml
Nope , https://reticulum.network/
Learning to code and building a game in Godot. I’ve tried a few times before but all the coding projects I wanted to do required some form of interaction with a web browser and as soon as it got to that point it became so unenjoyable. But making a game has been very fun. My game is pretty shit right now and adding a feature breaks everything. I’m struggling to plan ahead which is a bit frustrating but it is what it is.
Learning the Microsoft Intune stack to fix the bad deployment process at work. Switching to full intune will actually make it easier to support mac and linux as alternative devices so im excited about that. Its feels bad knowing that this is destroying all the competition in this sector but its all closed source windows shit anyway so fuck em.
I’ve been learning Irish for a few months now - incredibly difficult language but fascinating.
Also getting back into poetry and learning different techniques around writing. Not sure I always like some of the very rigid “rules” but it’s interesting to learn. I’ve never been particularly technical with my writing but it has opened my mind to trying new styles.
Been brushing up on mine too. :) What are you using? I had hit a wall but then came across the Sionnach app which is good but hitting a wall with it a bit too.
Nice! Are you Irish yourself? Yeah I started with Duolingo which I still use - I’ve looked at Sionnach but I don’t love the interface though I like the concept. I used duocards for a while too. I think they both have different methods of learning than Duolingo but neither quite has the easy, smooth interface yet! Also did a local online class for a couple of months but the teacher wasn’t very engaging unfortunately so I didn’t carry on 😭 I want to get some 1:1 tutoring at some stage, I think that’s the best way but obviously $$$ 🙄
I have a coworker and friend who is Irish (but not fluent in Irish) and I love getting to practice it with her and leaving her notes in the office in Irish haha. I think getting to use it is the key which is why I’d like a tutor. I’m Australian so no “need” for it here, I just enjoy it and find Ireland fascinating.
I am indeed. I’m honestly fascinated that an Australian would choose to learn Irish. Really cool tbh! What prompted you to pick it if you don’t mind me asking? There are a heap of resources in a thread I started a while back that might be of use to you. I’ll be going through them more deeply soon.
Just a heads up - the dialects are bananas. Like I used to be very comfortable having a conversation with a native speaker back in my youth but the Ulster Irish I find really, really difficult to understand. Partly accent, partly pronunciation.
One small example, the name Róisín in Connacht dialect is row-sheen (like row your boat) but for folks in Ulster it’s ro-sheen (like box). To me the fada on the o = “oh”. Not sure how it ended up like that but there you have it.
I hear you on Sionnach, but I liked that it’s open source / a community effort and spoken by natives. It ramps up very quickly is my only issue.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Kneecap is great.
Ooh fantastic, I will have a look through there for sure - go raibh maith agat!
So I am autistic and my interests tend to get quite stuck on one thing. I think mine started with Derry Girls lol which I needed the political context for so started reading books about the troubles. Then I heard Sinead O’Connors song Famine which is better than any history lesson I ever did at school and that led me to digging further into the history of Ireland!
One of the things that kept coming up was the erasure of the Irish language which really pissed me off 😡😅 I enjoy creative writing and learning different communication styles it’s all very close to my heart (I know I sound articulate here but I can struggle quite a bit with my verbal communication!). I don’t like the idea of people limiting that for others! I find the Irish language very interesting historically and it sounds so beautiful. I like the roots of words and phrases - even though I’m not religious haha and a lot of it is based around religion of course.
Things like tà bròn orm being the sadness is on me - as opposed to I AM sad really speak to me. The well wishes of the greetings/farewells. Slàinte - health, slàn - safely, etc.
I love learning the direct translations and deeper meanings behind the words. I think it’s a very poetic language.
The dialects absolutely 😅 Picked up on that through Duolingo giving different pronunciations for the same words!? Even different phrases!? Conas atà tú was what I knew for how are you but all of a sudden that was wrong and the answer they were looking for was Cad é mar atá tù? And some dialects still use mh = w for certain words whereas others don’t! Maidin mhaith - some say “ma” some say “wa”!?
Northern accent is brilliant but definitely harder to understand for a lot of people (my mum needs subtitles for Derry Girls 😅). All the accents are so lovely haha. Are you still living in Ireland yourself?
Of course I have seen and listen to kneecap! I love music that uses English/Irish interchangeably! Fun way to pick up on the language.
If you read all of this go raibh maith agat as léamh 😅
I want to start making small electronics repairs and maybe some clock repairs. It’s not that I like clocks as such more a lesson in patience.
Tree removal. I have a shitty blue spruce that needs to be removed and I’m too cheap to pay someone to do it. So I’m practicing climbing and using a chainsaw.
You’re probably aware but be extremely careful. Get the chainsaw safety chaps and other PPE.
It could save your life if it goes wrong.
Yep I’ve got it all. I wouldn’t even be considering doing it if I wasnt already very handy and comfortable in most of the PPE. Chaps will be new, but the discomfort is worth the safety.
I have been trying to pick back up watercolor. I did a daily series last year and posted them on bluesky for a couple months before a depressive episode sapped my will to paint. I’m not very good, but when I can adequately muzzle my perfectionism and just have fun with it, I really enjoy it. Maybe one day I might even be good at it.
Does it matter if you are good as long as it brings you joy?
Nope. All it really does is make the fight against perfectionism easier.
I’ve gotten back into exercising. I’m starting to see some results in strength and endurance. I’m also a lot more physically tired because my body isn’t used to this kind of exercise.
I’ve been working on a small-Web inspired server that hosts cryptographically authenticated files. It renders markdown as HTML, and supports CSS. It requires no user registration. Just generate a keypair, and start uploading your Web site.
I barely got the basic system put together and I need to refactor the backend since it was originally built to work with minio. Still some key features I want to finish up like moderation tools and custom domains. Trying to decide if it’s worth the effort.
I want to switch from taking pictures on a smartphone to using a small DSLR, which has brought me into a rabbit hole of photography. So, now I’m seriously considering taking up photography as a hobby and learning all there is to know about taking pictures.
I really like my old canon 700D. It wasn’t top of range 10 years ago when it came out, but it’s reliable. Ive kept my spending on it low-ish. Mostly focusing on macro photography. I’ve been thinking about getting a 400mm lens for it but I decided I really ought to do more with less, if I can.
Oh I am right behind you on this journey I think. I love hiking and have found myself taking more and more pictures when I do. The more pictures I take though, the more dissatisfied I am with my smartphone camera.
Just watched a very funny animated sketch about photography as a hobby and it sums up exactly all my fears about buying a camera.
interesting, I found that for landscapes, my phone was simply so much easier and roughly as good as my DSLR
I brought my DSLR on trips for high shutter speeds, zoom, and low light. taking wide photos during the day? just snap with the phone while the canoe is on your shoulders
Careful now. First couple hits of photography are cheap. Then you’ll want new lenses, and eventually find yourself becoming semi-pro to feed your new addiction.
Accepting
Stop cryjng
What’s starting it?
i recently finished my electronics engineering capstone project! it’s a scratch-built midi keyboard heavily inspired by the moog model D. i got a 93% :)
