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That was great advice. Seemed to fix things. Thank you!

Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices.

I had not expected an iPhone and MacBook Pro announcement BEFORE the special event in Wed. #Apple arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Bald man with ample gray beard smiling as he poorly works a bow at a pottery wheel.

Trying something new today. Don’t tell my wife - it’ll be a Mother’s Day gift. Good thing I’m an undesirable troll man, or coming home with my wedding ring off and jumping right in the shower would be sketchy.

Thanks! I’m sure you’re right. I need to be more comfortable with frogging. When I’ve tried before I seem to have always made things worse but I’m sure practice helps. I’m nearly the end of a blanket (it’s now about 4.5ft long) so I’m trying to find a “low potential damage” approach.

Oh, neat. So I’d use a short piece of yarn, knit that through while keeping working yarn where it is. Then return to the working yarn and continue but it should have a repaired row now below it? Do I have that right? Kind of you to offer advice. Thanks!

That second pic, where the badness began, likely means I should have somehow worked backwards to the right & added that lost row, but I have no idea how I could have done that. Thanks for your wisdom!

I don't want to tink or frog - it's an 85 stitch-ish blanket row. I can likely knit through & it won't be too noticeable, but I'm wondering if there is an easier recommended fix. And any idea what I did wrong & how I should have fixed things? Below is when I started losing the row I think. 2/3

New & seeking knit fix advice: ~6 stitches slipped off my blanket & my working yarn looked about 6 stitches in. I put those stitches on the right needle and continued knitting. Now that I turned around I can see that those stitches (now on the left) are one row lower than the ones on the right. 1/3

YouTube video by Build With Prof. G. Pico DJ Board! Use an Adalogger CowBell to Boost Storage w/a microSD card (CircuitPython School)

Fun lesson - Build a @raspberrypi.com pico DJ board while learning to use the @adafruit.com $8 Adalogger Cowbell to expand file storage to 32GB, & add a STEMMA-QT port with no wiring! My students built this in the MakerSpace last class & it was a blast! youtu.be/yZdR7oGbTX8?... #CircuitPython #CSEd

Looks like AirDrop broke with the latest macOS upgrade. I'd never used the Image Capture app on the Mac to drag & drop files from my iPhone to my Mac, but this is a temporary quick fix when attaching a USB-C cable.

Tabs is enjoying the big fluffy snowflakes this Boston Sunday AM.

Kitty’s gonna nap. ‘Specially on #Caturday.

Working on a pico dj board using CircuitPython and the Adalogger CowBell. 128bpm wav files are mixing without crashing. DJs & beat-bosses, point me to a slot of 12 beats that mix well & get students slappin’! Will post code & build vid when thoroughly texted.

“Low key” is the new “like”. It’s in almost every sentence a person under 20 says. If I had a transcript of conversations I overheard in the lab this week and had to black out every sentence with “low key” or “bro” it would look like an Epstein file.

Spent the day prepping a dozen kits for our MakerSpace CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico workshops. In 90 mins we’ll copy & paste then describe code as we wire & run NeoPixels, sound, a potentiometer, and servo.

I neither drive nor partake in “the herb” but am shocked at how many toke drivers there are. Every time I walk down Hammond Street there are one to five cars that absolutely reek. Makes me wonder how many are driving drunk. I know it’s not the same thing, but it’s clearly not ideal public safety.

Yell-mumbled at by the neighborhood wanderer again. Only thing I could make out was “…on vacation from the North Pole!” He remains committed to the idea that I look like Santa. He’s sad, harmless, and I must admit this is weirdly flattering, as being mistaken for Santa carries a bit of cachet.

This is the casting we need

Put my mod of @blitzcitydiy’s ESPN sports tracker peeking through the MakerSpace window in hopes of drumming up more interest in Fall’s Physical Computing course.

Is there something wrong with the MicroPython feed here? Are these things curated? It seems many CircuitPython posts aren’t appearing. Is there an alternative where we can get things to work more reliably? #micropython

#CSed w/AI is *so* different than what we'd previously done. We had taught techniques with mostly right and wrong implementations. Now it's: you've got this skilled and flawed partner who will give you different answers than your peers. Build skills to manage & critique this partner.

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Sorry if you know this and I know you said Mac and not iOS, but I’ve found Mark Moeykens books super approachable for visual learners. Hack on! www.bigmountainstudio.com

It’s 12:35AM and the city of Newton has a series of incredibly loud snow removal machines running across the street. I have a white noise machine on high and can’t mask the beeping and scraping. No one can sleep through this. Whole family is up. The road has been cleared two days so what is this?

View from home lab window. Plow mountain is “stop sign” high.

After shoveling today my body is screaming at me: "Dude, don't you know how old we are?!? Get a damn snow blower ffs!"

A Grace “twin!”. The Admiral’s sister is also an unusual color mix. A real harlequin tortie. They were rescues and real siblings. Found behind a Walgreens in a box.

Admiral Grace on her throne by the fire. #cats on a snow day.

Doorbell cam pic at the end of the storm. Plow got stuck outside our house this AM and they just started running again at 8pm. Just outside Boston. Looks like about a foot and a half on top of what was already there - maybe a foot left from last week.

Thanks for all this advice! I’ll check out the parts you’ve mentioned. Appreciate your input. Cheers!