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My #Lego stash was getting out of hand and taking over most of my office. So, enjoy some pictures of the build process.

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The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again
Watching Artemis II launch stirred something deeper than excitement—something human. After decades of routine spaceflight, this mission reminded me what it feels like to hold your breath, hope, and believe again.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/the-momen…

The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again – Bob Mueller
Artemis II rekindles the wonder of human spaceflight, blending nostalgia, risk, and hope as we take our first steps back toward the Moon.

🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

Next up is the Motorized Lighthouse.
Bags 1 & 2
#Lego
#inprogress

SO!
I can fix my code so that the arguments to FEXPRs are not evaluated, by deferring the call to EVLIS into APPLY; but this is not what the code given on pages 70-71 does, and so my code will then not directly follow the specification in the #Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual;
OR,
I can not do this, in which case FEXPRs will not work as specified on pages 18 and 19.
(Note that…

I just tagged release 3.8.0 of Crell/ApiProblem, providing full support for RFC 9457 messages!
The only change of note in this release is dropping support for PHP versions older than 8.3. There's scarce few users on older versions, but there are new error constants to support, so it's easier to just bump the version requirement.
Have at!
https…

GitHub - Crell/ApiProblem: A simple implementation of the api-problem specification. Includes PSR-15 support.
A simple implementation of the api-problem specification. Includes PSR-15 support. - Crell/ApiProblem

FreeBSD's position on the use of AI-generated code?
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1sbzf3q/freebsds_position_on_the_use_of_aigenerated_code/> – asked a few minutes ago, currently pinned (a community highligh…

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