Engineering

vintage-magazine

it’s estimated that roughly 10 million or 3% of American citizens are descendants of the mayflower voyagers. That’s from only 22 males that survived the trip. That’s higher than i would have expected.

book-recs

https://a.co/d/3uxC0U7

I’ve been reading this and wish I’d have read it 10 years ago. Requires reading for anyone invested in crypto or doing trading of any sort. It’s a fun read too.

fasting

helium

I’ve been skeptical of /helium not showing enough real utility to justify its valuation. But with last few months of data we are seeing on their Mobile wifi network i’ve become super bullish. I think enough people were burned over speculation during the IoT days that they’ve given up on it.

Parenting

Baby poop stains are hard to remove but if you just hang them in the sunlight they disappear. It’s because baby poop has a lot of bilirubin in it due to babies’ undeveloped livers. Bilirubin breaks down in the sunlight.

Data

world.helium.com - great onchain resource for finding where and when humans with cellphones are congregating

health

Homelabs

This is one of the best homelab servers I ever had. Not the most powerful, but really silent, very small footprint and it feels so reliable compared to much higher-speced (but same price range) computers I've had in the past. 

Really love it. (Runs snapchain like a pro)

- Raspberry Pi5 16GB
- NVMe Base Case for Raspberry Pi 5 (pimoroni)
- NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5 - 2x2TB SSD

I didn’t know about this dual nvme gadget for pi. Might have to spin up a @dappnode on one

The easiest way to RUN WEB3. It just works.

privacy

As a cypherpunk aligned (even though I don't directly agree with them) person:

If you line up to reveal your addresses and holdings to government agencies for the "candy" of subsidized interest rates, I will not sympathize on what possible futures await you.

I find it insane that corporate lobbying has normalized making people choose privacy over convenience, sometimes even paying for it (Clear and TSA Pre-Check come to mind).

The government is effectively making people who are private second class citizens, at *your* expense, and I'm shocked our society normalizes this.

vintage

Global Car Culture

Get pumped for the absolutely mediocre 1983 Pontiac Phoenix with its 2.5 liter 4 cylinder. Came standard with a notchback seat - whatever that is.

barrydyne

Pontiac Phoenix with 2.5 liter 4 cylinder.