Correction: one does not walk a block in Texas, for there are no sidewalks. One drives a block, like god intended! That’s why we were born with wheels instead of legs.

(I’ve only ever been to San Antonio for a work thing and I am very bitter about the fact that attempting to walk the half-block between my hotel and the nearest grocery store for some snacks was an absolutely miserable experience due to poorly maintained sidewalks that disappeared and reappeared at random. To say nothing to the fact that my hotel was less than a mile from where I needed to go, but couldn’t walk to, due to the mega-highway with no pedestrian crossing between the two.)

Can I get in on that action?

Yeah! I put an order in for it back when it was announced and I think I saw that they’re not far from shipping out (I’m excited!)

I’m also a Kickstarter backer for Olan’s new project Godspeed whenever that gets off the ground. I’m just still bitter and very willing to hold a corporate grudge (it’d take purging the CEO and board before I’d even consider giving them money again).

From the deep Final Space shaped hole in my heart, fuck WB/ Discovery.

I’m of the opinion that claiming media for tax breaks should immediately forfeit IP/ copyright protections and require it to be made available to the public.

So… A Chromebook?

Yeah, watch faces can be switched at any time (I can’t imagine it’s changed, be you used to be able to switch faces from the watch itself as long as it was a face that you’d already installed). The landscape when Pebbel originally launched was vastly different and I’m not sure how vibrant the community still is, but it’s crazy that it’s endured this long. Plus now that new watches are being made, it can only grow from here, I’m super excited to be able to rock a pebble again (I still have my Time Steel and a sealed Time, but I think the batteries are well and truly shot (and one of the stand-out features of Pebble has always been their battery life)).

Hopefully it’s a quick four months for you (and everyone else waiting)!

I’m in my late 20’s and while I have a good job and enough cash on hand that I could make a down payment and move out, I’m not sure that I want to… As a US-ian The economy is in pretty rough shape and I’m not sure I want to be tied up in a mortgage when the bubbles start popping. Plus, if I were to uproot myself and move away from my family and friends, I’d almost rather full send it and emigrate to somewhere walkable, where the wrong medical diagnosis isn’t a financial death sentence.

Hi and welcome to the club!

If we’re talking bare minimums to get started, all you should need to install is the Pebble app, from there you can connect to the watch, and you should be good to go (I think there’s some kneecapping if you’re using an iOS device, but I can’t personally speak to that).

The time 2 line of watches aren’t really out yet (and I don’t have mine yet), so take this with a grain of salt, but one of the best parts of the original Pebbles was that they were watches first and foremost. Out of the box, I could always tell time, get pop ups for push notifications on my phone, calendar reminders, and control my music, which covers the vast majority of my use case. While the app store does have extra utilities and such for the watch, the only one I really remember using was called Find My Pebble- it lit up the screen and buzzed the watch so that I could find it if I took it off (and lost sight of it).

Everything after that is customization, one of the other nice parts about Pebbel was that they had a pretty vibrant community of folks making watch faces, so there was usually something for everyone. Some of my favorites for daily use:

• Timestyle
• Poke Trainer
• R2D2’s face

I also remember using TH3 if I was at a career fair and wandered something a bit less whimsical for the setting.

I’m partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it’s also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).

Carol of the Bells absolutely slaps! I’ll very much agree that it’s one of the few Christmas songs I genuinely enjoy.

Ender’s 3 price point is tricky, because the initial machine is so cheap there isn’t a whole lot else in the same sub-$200 bracket that’s particularly great. Realistically, if you can step up to $300 (which you’d probably spend in upgrades for the ender anyway), you’ve got the Bambu A1 and Elegoo Centauri Carbon. I’m not personally a fan of Bambu, but they are very set and forget folks that don’t mind being in an ecosystem seem to love them. Centauri is on the newer side, but from everything I’ve seen, it seems to be a very strong contender for best budget printer (also worth noting that there’s rumblings of a version 2 coming out early year, so you might be able to snag a clearance sale or some shiny new features).

I’m taking this as an excuse to share Ian’s shoelace site (complete with step by step instructions on how that knot works and how to tie it) because it’s one of those corners of the Internet that’s handy to know about. Plus, I feel like most people don’t realize that how a shoe is laced can dramatically change the fit and comfort of said shoe.

As someone stuck in a car-centric suburban-hellscape, sign me the fuck up!

It was absolutely Bughouse (with some house rules tacked on)! It’s been years since I’ve played, but I’d never thought to see if the variation had a formal name. Thank you!

I once played a team chess variant where each player could place pieces captured by their partner on their half of the board instead of moving. Made for some of the wackiest play lines since a piece materializing on the board could throw off your whole plan, but super fun from a strategy perspective, since board state could change dramatically between turns.

Streets ahead

Gamers Nexus did a piece on this, but short of a crash or bubble pop, it’s not expected to recover any time soon.

Woo hoo! Decidedly not boring! I’m usually content to make a 3D printed part that holds load and fits where it’s supposed to, I can’t imagine the amount of time and skill it’d take to knap a quartz blade that large and not shatter the whole thing, let alone have the thing hold up over 5000 years.

Any chance you know what the handle is made of? Naively, the pommel kind of makes me think of a jaw bone, but the more I think above it, the more likely I think I’d be carved ivory, which is a whole other set of crazy skills and limited tooling.

Won’t bore us with it? This is the first I’ve hearing of it and that artifact sounds cool as hell!

Also, gorgeous sketch, really clean line work!

Sonarqube is a kind of like an automated code quality checker that works for a bunch of programming languages. It’s pretty configurable (though I’ve never configured it myself), so it can be set up to check a code base for a wide range of things.

There’s a couple of different ways to run it, in my experience bigger companies usually have a dedicated server on their internal networks that connects to their CI/CD pipelines so that code gets checked before it gets merged in.

On a smaller scale, it’s also possible to run locally (either on metal or inside a docker container). From there you’d install a plugin to your IDE of choice.

More info:

• Wikipedia

• Geeks for geeks