Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 26/09/2026Coincidentally, my son asked about this knife earlier today. I had these made for the Site Isolation Team, for accelerating the launch due to Spectre/Meltdown. I do kinda miss sandboxing, though. It's security engineering that just really clicked with me, which is probably why I did it for so long. 190
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 25/09/2026Eve's packaging also bugs me. Take smart plugs: The Eve box is 6x the volume of IKEA's. It's the wasteful legacy of the luxury packaging craze that Apple popularized. Relatedly, at 5x the price of IKEA, Eve does have some nice extra features. But IKEA can add all of that in future software updates. 110
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 22/09/2026It's wild that it even makes sense to do this. We're using a modern, high-density battery chemistry plus a tiny battery-brain to emulate a weird quirk of a century old chemistry and cell combination that's been a de facto standard for 60+ years. It works. I'm buying them. But it's crazy. 110
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 21/09/2026Hey, whatever gets the job done. 😉 I was just trying to answer the question about managing the wires. The few times I soldered a breadboard I used the style in this pic (note the bus lines on the bottom side). It worked well enough to connect multiple modules without a tangle of jumpers. 100
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 19/09/2026According to the letters I keep getting for the Anthropic copyright settlement negotiations, TAoSSA was included in their training set. We clearly gave them the tools of our demise while also antagonizing them with our wit. I publicly apologize to our future robot masters for this gross insult. 031
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 02/09/2026We were at Old Navy a few weeks ago getting fall clothes for the kids and I came across a Misfits t-shirt for $8. I was never a big fan—at that age my tastes ranged more between DRI, Jane's Addiction, and Suicidal Tendencies. But I felt ironically compelled to buy the $8 Old Navy Misfits t-shirt. 130
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 03/08/2026I didn't know schadenfreude came this pure. fortune.com/2026/08/03/p... 150
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 29/07/2026These things are one of the most useful purchases I've ever made. There are so many projects they let you safely tackle as one person. 030
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 28/07/2026A "science journalist" and "fact checker" claimed that "most Americans have never met a Jew." I pointed out how wildly false this assertion was and got blocked (along with seemingly anyone else who noted the error). Just a reminder that there's a whole lot of misinformation out there. 382
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 28/07/2026To explain: 2% of Americans are Jews, and 80% of them live in the top 21 metros along with 38% of all Americans; the remaining 20% of Jews live with the remaining 62% percent of Americans. So, you have to work out the probability of interaction within a given social network, which looks like this. 100
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 15/07/2026Seriously, Chicago's air quality sensor network is impressive... and by tomorrow I expect this all to be orange at best. 110
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 15/07/2026The kids' track camp got postponed for the week due to the heatwave, but it looks like the air quality would have ended it anyway. On the plus side, Chicago does have the densest air quality sensor network in the world (~1.2 sensors per square mile), so we at least know exactly how bad it is. 370
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 14/07/2026About two thirds of the meds I'd been prescribed are now getting thrown away, because I don't need them anymore. The majority of this was just for the last week of post-op, and before that I was regularly declining notifications from the pharmacy that I was due for refills. It all seems so wasteful. 010
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 13/07/2026People are so gullible, thinking this is an AI image. That's what they want you to believe! The truth is that when you zoom in close on the newspaper text you'll see it's the subliminal incantation that opens the torment nexus. That has to be real, otherwise the incantation won't work! 030
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 08/07/2026Looks like a crude drawing of a kidney. I knew they were marking the side, but I guess it's a good idea to note the organ as well. 100
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 22/06/2026The 13yo asked to stop for a pastry while we were walking the dogs. Turns out pretty much all the coffeeshops are on Square, and their payment system is currently down. Many are cashless, but even cash ones can't open the register to make change. That's really gotta suck for those businesses. 143
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 22/06/2026I'm just remembering how much these guys dominated the economic world in the 1990s. I expect history will be kindest to Greenspan; for Rubin it's mixed; and Summers can go to hell. 000
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 03/06/2026I just got spammed by a NIMBY group opposing the Grand Ave safety improvements for pedestrians/cyclists. Here's the RSVP information for their meeting this Saturday. Seems like they'd benefit from being presented with a broader set of perspectives than just maximizing street parking. 120
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 21/01/2026At Trump's one year mark foreign markets are massively outperforming the US. After adjusting for inflation and the weak dollar, a US whole market index returned a measly 5% over the last year, while a non-US whole market index returned an adjusted 22%. Not a sign of confidence in the US. 042
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 05/01/2026Remember the Snappy capture device from the 90s? We were stuck watching the Stranger Things finale on a hotel TV with motion smoothing, and it's all I could think of. Frame interpolation was a fun gimmick for still images in 1995, but it just murders the cinematic viewing experience. 120
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 23/12/2025Forcing the kids to watch the 1982 Tron movie and only just now appreciating that it's genuinely a contemplation of religion and the notion of individual agency. Also, the Cybertruck is clearly a cheap knockoff of the Recognizer cockpit. 130
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 29/11/2025When I told people in California that I was moving back to Chicago they'd typically say something like: But what about the weather? The thing is, I love Chicago in the winter. 1212
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 29/11/2025Looking out the window of my mom's condo and I'm pretty sure there used to be a lake there. 🤔 080
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 24/11/2025I do AMS style multi-color only for a layer change or graphic on the top/bottom layer. But on my old MK3S/MMU2S I used to do multi-color regularly for large batches. The pic below was from tchotchkies for one of my old teams, and the purge blocks were around 1% of total print weight. 100
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 18/11/2025That does leave me with quite a few whistles that are suddenly in far less demand, but I'd call that a very happy trade off. 191
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 15/11/2025Picked this up at Neighborly, a cozy little home goods store down the street. It's a good example of how strongly the city has unified against the ICE/CBP occupation. I can't walk down the street without seeing "HANDS OFF" signs (or more colorful language) in the windows of houses and businesses. 051
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 11/11/2025Took the kids to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Humboldt Park and had to share a pic of this bad ass piece. 030
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 08/11/2025Still seems concerning that we're nine months into Trump's term and the US market has been basically negative in real terms (ie. adjusted for inflation and the US dollar). 191
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 04/11/2025Between that, a careful choice of fonts, and slowing down the text perimeters, I got legible text all the way down to 3mm tall (ie. the ICIRR hotline and phone number). That and the flag on the bottom came in at only six color changes. Anyway, I'll clean up and post the files today or tomorrow. 120
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 02/11/2025I'm mostly printing this whistle, but sometimes I swap the Chicago flag section for something more appropriate to a specific group. Nice to know it helped in an unexpected way. 2161
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 01/11/2025It was a very simple costume, but it sure went over well. 1100
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 30/10/2025And the current code went with checking for a range from -1 to -12, landed by @quidity.bsky.social back in April. There's also a nice comment about how they got to -12. source.chromium.org/chromium/chr... 110
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 27/10/2025Honestly, you erase almost all the gains in the US market just by accounting for how much the dollar has weakened since inauguration day. (The dollar adjusted value is the black line in the graph.) 221
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 27/10/2025I don't get the narrative that the US market is performing well. It recovered from the April low, but is overall middling―practically zero after accounting for a weak dollar and elevated inflation. And that's all before feeling the effects of tariffs, layoffs, benefit cuts, the shutdown, etc. 131
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 21/10/2025Now I'm wondering if the W3C wasn't simply trolled by a designer who was intentionally making reference to the various dick jokes in the Silicon Valley TV show. Because, this is the Gavin Belson character's signature. 240
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 10/10/2025Jersey City really is a model that other cities should aspire to. They also scored a major win on the superhero front. 000
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 17/08/2025I suddenly realized I can 3D print crocs for my dogs. Does that qualify as cruelty to animals? What if I ensure proper fit and sizing? 050
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 08/07/2025The daughter wanted to watch Heartstopper. So, we've been watching it with her, and one thing I have to say is that I'm a fan of this Tori Spring character. She's the real star of the show. 1221