Tim Boucher

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Beyond impressed by the number of books read and the embroidery!

Exquisite!

I love how the fabric’s color becomes the dress’s color, the subtle darker blue accent on the little water dashes, and the way the rocks look like a drawing.

“2D flat” when it’s clearly going for a Penrose triangle.

I’ve been thinking about how so much of what’s happening is due to the inability of the US to get something other than a two-party system.
And one of the consequences is believing that.

The important thing to know is that impeachment is a political process, whereas the immunity decision relates to criminal offenses committed as president.
Congress can impeach regardless and if convicted (very unlikely at this point) could decide on political remedies like removal and ineligibility.

Moving that radiator so that it’s not awkwardly in the middle of the wall inside the tub isn’t selbermachen, you have to hire professionals.

A good sponge and some white vinegar will take care of the rest.

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Not the same FFF, but these _are_ blue hats with FFF embroidered on them. 😊

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I love the concept and execution!

It looks like something where the bottom half takes 90% of the time. That’s a lot of French knots 😯

The drawings made me think of the book “Open Circuits”, which has detailed photography of the internals of components and circuits.

www.opencircuitsbook.com

Somehow I had never come across the idea of dimensioning solder pads. That makes sense of course, just not something I’ve seen when people talk about the PCBs they design.

Beautiful work!

Almost three weeks later, I still think this is a step back.
The effect on the icons looks bad, the unnecessary flashing wherever you tap, the stupid distortion effects with the glass.
All unnecessary and bad looking.

Photo of the table fan with its cover removed, exposing its internals. On the left, you can see a black plastic rectangular component with a red and black wires coming out of it. That’s the old capacitor that I replaced.

Most things have gotten so cheap that fixing them doesn’t make economic sense. How much would you have to pay someone to do the same fix? Likely much more than the cost of a new fan.

One thing I really enjoy is fixing things, especially when the thing to fix and the fix itself are cheap.
I had this fan that was mostly working but sometimes struggled to get started. Turns out it’s a capacitor issue which can be replaced for $3 and 20 minutes.
Better than getting a whole new fan.

Person 1: _does the worm_
Person 2: “Not only that, but…” _does the mashed potatoes_

I received a recruiting email for a blockchain/token company. In the year 2025.

In a way, it’s actually refreshing in a stream of AI companies!

YouTube video by Anil Dash The Threat to Video Creators Online

This was a quick one — I think video creators are under a big risk right now, bigger actually than before Kimmel was pulled off the air. One part of the reason why is a behind-the-scenes consolidation that almost nobody is paying attention to. youtube.com/shorts/3cK51...

I should rewatch some.
I loved the games, but what I remember of the movies I saw felt kind of flat and… muffled? I don’t know how to say it, just not very memorable to start with and not really fun.

Photo of the same mountain and trees embroidery kit the trees are still done in different greens. The two mountains are partially done. The new stuff is on the mountain on the right which has dark blue stitches and also some kind of burgundy mixed with the purple.

We’re back!
This is from a handful of sessions.
I don’t love making these types of sections because the colors are mixed and it’s hard to know where this is going. The flip side is that it’s nice when it’s starting to take shape!

#embroidery

Indeed. The stuffed crust from back then:

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The paw print is such a great idea. A nice homage, a constant reminder of your cat, and probably therapeutic while doing it.

We’ve had an annoying bug for a few months that I couldn’t pinpoint fully. Today I found a way to reproduce at least one set of conditions.
There were layers to it, and I had to dig into one part that was written in 2016!
Only a change I made recently highlighted the bug from that part.
😅

It makes me think of a stick of RAM. 😄

This passage nearly broke me.

YouTube channel about woodworking releasing new video and talking about 3D printing the new project instead?
Oh look at that! Sponsored by Bambu Labs.

🙄

And yes it has a print timelapse.

Screenshot of Facebook post by Merriam Webster about “legal doublets” like “cease and desist”, “breaking and entering”, which use French and English words because of the Normans.

Just saw this post yesterday.
“Colors and hues” belongs.

Yeah. It’s weird to consider how much video content (movies, TV series/shows) has been made to be the default “relaxing time” behavior. Socializing is also so often centered around that.
Rewiring that and looking for alternatives also means accepting not participating in that common thread.

Well done!

There needs to be (enforced!) limits in place to these conglomerates. Or maybe reset of my own consumption and just reject a lot of media forms? It’s tiring.

I had a similar question about the tag on the sleeve. It’s obviously out of place but I remember seeing someone with it.
And I get it: which other clothes do you have to modify in this way after buying? There should be regular PSAs about these things.

I hadn’t heard about this. Very interesting model. And it makes a lot of sense: if the art continues to generate revenue that long after it came out, it’s not due to the studio and who put the money at the time.

Startups should do that too 😁 if it’s still around after 25 years, it becomes a coop.