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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 20/05/2026

This is insane Jeremy. I echo the others in saying that I’m so sorry this happened to you, and you should probably take a day or two to rest and process. I’m really glad you’re ok ❤️

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 10/12/2024

I will pay top dollar for a machine that will separate thyme leaves from their stems.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 08/12/2024

Kelsey, I don’t know you but have been following you over the years. Not sure if you’ve ever checked out The Great Simplification podcast, but I think you’d appreciate it. Specifically, this episode that starts with the question “what is progress” www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/126-...

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Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment” | The Great Simplification

Episode 126

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 04/12/2024

Showing network request details is table stakes, but screenshots of the rendered page over time!? Detailed time and durations of layout changes!? Script evaluation time, timer and GC events!? For a performance nerd like me this stuff is GOLD.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 04/12/2024

As a newb frontend developer (but with many years of backend experience), it blows my mind how good all of the web profiling and performance tooling is! I just opened the “Timelines” tab in Safari dev tools and I can’t believe how much information you get without having to do anything! 🤯

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 21/11/2024

Hello, I wrote a new talk that is ultimately about how misery is a dumb strategy egoless.engineering

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Egoless Engineering

It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 14/11/2024

“If I were an Intel executive looking at this chart and Apple's new laptops, I would be scared out of my mind right now.” Amazing to see how this turned out, 4 years later, with Apple silicon now absolutely dominating Intel

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 11/11/2024

A game changer for my developer productivity has been @raycast.com AI. I very rarely need to web search anything anymore. It just removes a bunch of friction and gets me to my answer much quicker.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

🍂 Finally, I had to find a new home for the dish once the dock was brought in for the winter. During the summer there are too many trees (and leaves) around the outhouse but by the fall, there’s enough of a clearing for the dish to work well enough. It’s not as good as the dock, but good enough!

Photo of an outhouse with a Starlink dish mounted on the roof.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

How to get around that? Starlink uses cat5e cable with custom connectors. I cut off one side and replaced it with an RJ45 connector. Then connected that to a 150’ section of 23 gauge pure copper (not CCA!) cat6 cable. The larger gauge pure copper wire was enough to minimize the voltage drop.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

🛜 The final issue I ran into was the distance between the dish and the cottage. The maximum Starlink cable length is 150ft, which was too short for me. The reason why the cable can’t be longer is because the voltage drop is too great at a longer distance.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

⚡️ For power: I have a limited electricity budget and try to account for every watt of power. I ended up using a special type of PoE injector built for Starlink to avoid having to use the Starlink router. This allows me to run the dish directly from my 48v battery and removes the need for AC power.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

I settled on putting it on the dock. One downside is that the coverage is not _perfect_, but is good enough for my kids to play online games without complaining about high ping. Another is having to relocate the dish when the dock is pulled in at the end of the season. But it worked!

Photo of Starlink dish mounted on a lakefront dock.

Screenshot of a Starlink obstruction map with slight obstruction to the north east.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

🌳To address the trees: I had an arborist visit to investigate mounting it in a tree. This would give me perfect coverage, but ultimately I thought it would be too hard to maintain (or fix if something went wrong). And potential lightning strikes!

Picture of trees with a red arrow pointing at the candidate tree to mount the Starlink dish in.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

This past spring I set up Starlink at my off grid cottage. I had a few constraints, mainly : lots of trees that I refuse to cut down, limited power and cable distance.

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Scott Francis @csfranc.is · 09/11/2024

I was thinking the other day while browsing the other site, “I barely see any posts from the interesting people I follow anymore... what happened?”. Turns out they’re all here!

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