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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  1mo ago (text post)   409 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for August 19, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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I finally got a body with an appropriately specced neck pocket for my parts bass project. It's a fairly light mahogany three piece.

Now I'm on to the neck itself. I'm going back and forth between an inline four headstock or a 2+2 setup. I think I prefer the latter. Does anyone here have experience with roasted maple? The claims on stability in shifting temps and humidity sounds fantastic.

Mostly monitoring the situation and fixing the odd bug that pops up. Things are pretty stable, so I've been plotting my next move.

Not gonna lie, the main reason this project got as far as it did is using the old nitter+miniflux setup daily, the thought of returning to Twitter, or even just plain old Nitter is unfathomable to me at this point, and it's been driving me to power through until I got something usable. While there's a whole bunch of basic features I should add to make it reasonably usable to anyone who isn't me, the thought of working on them instantly sends me into a comma. OTOH, I've found myself more and more frustrated with Substack, and thinking that it sure would be nice to be able to follow all the people from there on the same app I use to keep track of Twitter. Importing articles would be easy enough, but I think I'm more interested in the "Notes", but the prospect of integrating them was daunting. Cursory searches revealed no alternative Substack readers that I could raid for code, so I thought it would take forever to figure out how to deal with their API... until I actually looked at it. Turns out you can literally just fetch Notes with curl, so I won't have to worry about reverse-engineering their authentication process, unless I'll want to implement fetching paid content.

How have you been doing @Southkraut?

No progress. Thanks for asking anyways.

On Friday I printed the second draft of my NaNoWriMo project for the missus to read. She's about halfway through it, and so far the feedback has been guardedly positive. She's consistently said that it is neither boring nor cringe (my primary and secondary worries about it, respectively) and that the prose is, for the most part, very readable.

Side note: I was unsure of what NaNoWriMo was, and after googling found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole of juicy controversy. What a ride!

I'm now coining FtttG's Law: the longer an online organisation goes on, the probability of it becoming embroiled in a child grooming scandal approaches 1.

I didn’t even see that controversy, I was hooked by the insane statements on green lighting LLM use and how complaints around this had ‘classist and ableist undertones’. What a shit show.

The other scandal.

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