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I blogged again! About my hike last Monday in the cold. On the hike I tested warming pads in the shoes which were almost great (almost because I should have adjusted them on the way down).
But NOT getting cold feet was really preciousss!
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/testing

Last bit of car maintenance for the year: the Boxster is back from it's 4yr major service. Along with that, we have new front discs and pads and new hardlines from brake junction to calipers, and to top it all off, the original dealer plates are back in place.
Driving home, it definitely felt faster - though that could be a result of my now much lighter-weight wallet 🙂

Activists heckle Dem politician with knee pads so he can "blow" Donald Trump - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/activists-heckle-dem-politician-with-knee-pads-so-he-can-blow-donald/

Has anybody here swapped an M.2 1216 SMT Wi-Fi module on a board? Looking for any tips I may need especially re: unsticking the 8 ground pads under the package. Do you just heat up the can? Put the board on a hotplate?

Don't do full system water cooling if you don't like maintenance. I did a full disassembly and flush of the system this time around. Including a multi chemical process to make sure everything is killed as algae started growing.

Second try on a B/C PS3 board: no ripped pads!!!
The old RSX itself has ben superheated though, either way it was dead, now more dead.
Now question is how do i solder on the new RSX without overheating it.

A short clip from the weekend:
It was indeed a bit cold up there but it was really good to get out and get my feed on the mountain 🙂
My wife gifted me some warming pads and gosh was that comfortable to have warm soles!!! Just on the way down, they shifted slightly and caused a little blister. That's something to improve. But on the way up is was great

"strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API."
good thing I don't do C 🙃
Seriously though - projects defining their own strc(o)py do mean flaws in a standard library.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/

no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

Welp, my back is banjaxxed.
Had pain last week, but heat patches sorted it by Wednesday.
It has been fine for the last few days
Until today when I lifted a bucket of coal and I near collapsed with the shooting pain.
Good thing I bought extra heat pads...
#noxp

(sound on)
Tfw scanning photos and making mouse pads is a whole experience

Surely ... Surely there is a better way to phrase this?
#CalgaryFlames #EdmontonOilers #Shitpost

Second try: succes))
This time no ripped pads and cleaned them like they should be!

It's hard and i broke 4 pads, but also kinda fun)
Also just started learning how to desolder with the copper whick! (The rows on the top)

First try for a BGA desolder: succesful failure)
~10 ripped pads on board and core, but at least got some experience and a better sense of temperature.
Still a lot of training left until i can do a frankenstein mod for my PS3