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yeah, unfortunately they sort of got choked out by the dahlias and a big tree

dappled sunlight: very pretty for humans, very unhelpful for growing

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let's just say it's a good thing we're not subsistence farmers

the smallest carrot ever from our garden

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fun fact about canada:

$online piracy damages are capped at $5k _total_ regardless of infraction count$

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yellow just hits different

3D printed gears and parts on a workbench, fujifilm grainy 35mm glimmer glass

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hehehe it's really fun to have a lil buddy who can directly control USB devices we're debugging axis directions and it does really feel very iron man movie montage

cetus 3D printer now converted to GRBL

opus 5.5 helping control the different motors and writing us a nice lil plotter program

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brennan @brennan.computer · 27/09/2026

okay, I ordered these parts in january so I desperately need to finish my intentions before the end of the year old cetus 3D printer to GRBL arduino conversion to turn it into a lil pen plotter I can drive from my laser.brennan.computer plotter app

cetus 3D printer PCB (blue, left) replaced by much more adorable arduino uno plus CNC shield (red, middle)

the bambu (right) is printing parts for a yarn winder

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I have a sticker printer / cutter it's a couple hundo to get started but the stickers themselves are 5-50 cents each depending on size (how many you can cram onto one sheet)

Liene S1 sticker printer and cutter combo unit

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brennan @brennan.computer · 25/09/2026

the walk to the coffeeshop is poppin'

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brennan @brennan.computer · 23/09/2026

hot air balloon wedding content

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brennan @brennan.computer · 22/09/2026

mechwarrior 2, maybe? I was a literal toddler, my dad would hold me on his lap and I could "play" with that sidewinder joystick running around the desert but later it was the first game I remember that had like, lore and the in-universe themed instruction manual was supremely cool

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brennan @brennan.computer · 21/09/2026

some goldsmithing photos we melted in some heirloom gold from her grandma(s), so that's also special; part of her ring is literally made of other family rings it was a really cool experience, you get to customize everything to your exact details, and everyone gushes when you say you made them

gold ring melting / annealing - you have to heat up metals after they've been cold worked to add back ductility so they don't crack. so the process (like blacksmithing) is heat, work, heat, work, etc

fujifilm xpro3 35mm

melting gold from the crucible into the strip molds. the molds are flat strips and then you bent them into a ring second (see other photo)

fujifilm xpro3 35mm

annealing after the joint gets soldered together. you curl the strip into the ring shape and then weld the ends into a band

fujifilm xpro3 35mm

this is what the flat ring strip looks like - you add the hammered surface finish first while it's flat, and then roll it into size and cylinder second

fujifilm xpro3 35mm

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brennan @brennan.computer · 20/09/2026

thank you everyone for your well wishes!

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brennan @brennan.computer · 19/09/2026

we also forged each others' rings from raw metal!

wedding rings, some new gold and some heirloom gold from her grandma(s) that we melted down into them

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child labour was bad, of course, but reading a history wherein teenagers constantly invent things and modernize the world sure does feel like we underestimate and underutilize our own

...up stones. As a teenager he was shipped off to work for his eldest brother who ran a tack factory-and Blanchard had found his milieu. His first job was hand-fixing heads on tacks, which he hated, so he invented a tack-making machine that turned out five hundred tacks a minute. After winning a patent for the tack machine, Blanchard sold the licensing rights for $5,000-а stupendous sum for a young man-and opened his own...

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you know, when you're a shy teenager who worked at a bookstore, taught yourself land surveying, end up stumbling into building and operating a small town of men in the middle of the forest that is named after you, that you then defend from a crew of hired thugs. just teenager things

lasted well into old age. Nineteenth-century tanners cured animal skins by soaking them in tannic acid derived from a mash of tree bark. It was dirty, dangerous work, requiring vast amounts of timber and water, and was usually conducted deep in the woods. Pratt hired Gould to survey a tanning site, but was sufficiently impressed that he made him a partner and manager of the projected new tannery. So the pint-sized Gould, barely out of his teens, led fifty workmen into the woods and built virtually a full...

...scale town, including living and food service quarters, a mule-powered bark crushing plant and curing vat facilities, plus a post office, a wagon house, a water race, and eventually a general store. Work proceeded so fast that the settlement was named "Gouldsborough" by acclamation.

...discussions broke down, one of his backers, Charles Lee, hired a crew of toughs and took over the tannery by force. Gould hastened to the town and addressed a spontaneous gathering of about two hundred townspeople and employees, who rallied to his banner. That night he led a group of fifty men, divided into two assault teams, and stormed the tannery from the front and rear. There was a brief, but wild, shooting melee before Lee's ruffians fled.

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making unique cyanotype napkins for each wedding guest using plants from our garden

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ayy! my hometown has a bunch of these silos

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brennan @brennan.computer · 17/09/2026

and also it was all just that one rich patron hired all the out of work architects and crafters to build in a medium they had never done before for wages that rivaled their old careers what a wild story

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everyone is sick except for meeee

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brennan @brennan.computer · 17/09/2026

dappled light so good right now our flowers grew so tall we had to string 'em up to the soffit, haha

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brennan @brennan.computer · 17/09/2026

what a perfect september morning peak crispness

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brennan @brennan.computer · 16/09/2026

there's a museum here that's all overhead belt systems they all still run, too

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brennan @brennan.computer · 16/09/2026

yeah, I always liked those charts that map where characters are together over time could do (or perhaps has been done?) this for arbitrary human clusters

randall munroe / XKCD movie narrative chart

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brennan @brennan.computer · 16/09/2026

so apparently new kasa bulbs don't talk to home assistant and there's been a open issue for 8 months (??) sitting there about it guess we're going to make a fix and submit a PR about this

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oh! so, for example, I made my own CAD program because none of the other free ones did what I wanted them to and that's super cool! you can just have needs and dreams and then build them exactly how you want www.instagram.com/p/DasamMyyTCA/

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heh, yeahhhhh, who would ever... do that...

balatro steam page with 92 hours on the clock

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the 3-4 crop is pretty good in isolation

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it's on sale even! I'm gonna do it

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