Michael Krotscheck

So what you're saying is that there will be plenty of pie for me if I come to visit?

Can you explain to me why they are not filled with pie?

I have a problem.

I won't lie, I'm having a lot of feelings about saying goodbye to this room, which I painted for both of my boys.

Who's out there building a future-thinking chatbot army to convince online trolls?

I have discovered my secret to detaching from my mobile device.

Apparently, switching from biometric to a password unlock, and to make that password unlock obnoxiously long, creates enough friction that I just don't bother picking up my phone anymore.

Birb

Not me!

Not for a lack of trying though. I heard very-not-good things about Hashicorp's Identity Team though.

Friendship bracelet charms, banana for scale.

Crowdsourcing question: assume you have a bucket of separated Lego pieces, all irregular shapes. How would you mechanically separate them, so they end up on a conveyor belt one at a time?

I am currently thinking some kind of vibrating Hopper.

My son Benjamin would like everybody to know that today is National Hot Chocolate Day.

I learned today that Paris Olympic Bronze Medals, with steel from the Eiffel Tower, are corroding quickly.

And I immediately realized that a copper alloy and an iron alloy create a cathode and an anode. Oops.

I promise, the resemblance to a tank tread is purely coincidence.

That's awesome! My gym is right down the hill from there, you should come lift heavy things with me!

/me considers replying, from his own node which was easy to set up....

Android phone user, OSX for my laptop. Standard "I want low level control over my devices" tech nerd.

An accessibility question: Mobile keyboards are becoming increasingly hard for me to use (Essential Tremor). Does anyone have direct experience with mobile screen-sharing software so I can access my phone from my laptop?

Okay, this is a little impressive. On the Right you see a brand new laser tube with no improved air assist. On the left you see a 500-hour laser tube with an approved air assist.

I'm currently exploring ways of building a conveyor belt using laser cut plywood, this first version seems to work pretty well, but I haven't tested it yet under tension.

Farewell Belize, you are an unexplored gem. I hope that tourism helps you thrive, without overrunning you.

Does anybody else think it's curious, that the elves in the movie "The Polar Express" are using Yiddish?

Upgraded my second hand 50 watt laser today, wiring an aquarium pump directly into the original power line. You can see the improvement: There is still a little bit of charring around the cut line, but it is way better than it used to be.

Custom stackable Lego boxes, exactly big enough for all the pieces in each box.

I have reached that engineering career level when my job is more about reading compliance documentation, than writing actual code.

I... am surprisingly good at this.

That feeling when your gym posts new promotional pictures, you're in them, and they make you confront your body image issues.

30 minutes of googling and a bit of help from Copilot, and boom: I have SPF, DKIM, and verified email sending for my BlueSky PDS. Hello, world!

Still feeling my way around this PDS thing. Call me a branding nerd, but using my own last name is worth it :)