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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 04/07/2025

@munichmakerlab.bsky.social Hi! I’m in the process of moving, and have some spare Prusa MK3+ parts (motors, cables, Y axis guide rails, etc.) Would you all be interested in taking them? If not they‘ll probably go to the Wertstoffhof. Ciao!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 24/04/2025

Oh my god, if you find one please share. I’ll settle even for Carta, ISO, NSO, stock option, and exercise window

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 07/02/2025

Went through this about 6 months ago and didn’t trust any specific site. Ended up reading multiple reviews for year/model combos to get an average sense of reliability and quality. That being said, we had a firm and small budget, which eliminated a lot of cars to research!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 25/11/2024

Love to see people using this and getting value out of it!

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 11/11/2024

Starter pack for folks building with @emberjs.com Where my ember peeps at, I'd love to add some more 💜 go.bsky.app/2uVJucq

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srrrse @without.boats · 06/11/2024

FCK FDP

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 06/11/2024

Americans opened up a history book to 1930‘s germany and said I’ll have one of those thanks

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 30/10/2024

I think I’d be less anti-AI if it was still just called machine learning

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 28/10/2024

Now that the rain has stopped, the fog has started. The spirits are not on my side

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 23/10/2024

Has anyone gone from front end development into something cool like writing software for rockets?

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 04/10/2024

me: ready to maybe do my first solo flight earth: here’s some rain every day for several weeks

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 17/09/2024

I can’t say I really feel like an elder, but I’ll take it

A Bluesky card that reads “Celebrating 10M users! #486,733, First 10%, Certified Bluesky Elder. Joined Aug 5, 2023”

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 05/09/2024

No one tells you how much superglue you’ll use when you have a kid

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 30/08/2024

*eating healthy during the week and then absolutely eating a zillion calories of garbage on the weekend* it's called a cut/bulk cycle look it up

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 12/08/2024

That feeling when according to the syllabus you could have your first solo flight in three more missions, but then the CFI tells you you need 100 landings to do a solo flight, but you’re only at 45 😭

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 07/07/2024

Congratulations France

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 07/07/2024

It’s probably a good thing that American presidents can’t dissolve congress and call a snap election

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 03/07/2024

Flight training progress during my sabbatical: Monday: sick Tuesday: recovering Wednesday: IFR weather Here’s hoping Thursday and Friday are better 🥲

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 01/07/2024

federal background check: check flight log: check knee board: check plane reservation app login: check medical exam: check headphones: check theoretical test: practical test:

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 19/06/2024

federal background check: check flight log: check knee board: check plane reservation app login: check medical exam: scheduled headphones: almost theoretical test: practical test:

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 24/05/2024

Finally got my background check for flying (Zuverlassungsüberprüfung), so now I just have to wait for the invite to the scheduling platform and my flight book and I can finally start flying in a real plane

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

SCULLY: how much data is there TECH: enough to fill seven 10 gigabyte hard drives ME: so ME: 70 gigabytes

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 20/03/2024

I’m pretty sure I’m learning just as much about flying from @kyracloudy.bsky.social as I am from my textbooks

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 17/03/2024

Yeah, being able to swap them out mid-flight or at a stopover makes replaceable batteries seem pretty convenient, especially if you use rechargeable ones!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 17/03/2024

Wow, ok! Thanks for reporting back! I’m pretty much committed at this point, but I’ll probably wait until I get past the radio parts of the program so I can at least know what I’m doing with the radio to justify it a bit 😂

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 06/03/2024

Is it because most items in the kitchen serve a utilitarian purpose? When these things live in a cabinet or drawer, aesthetics don’t matter much. The same can’t be said for almost anywhere else in the house!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 06/03/2024

I don’t think I’ve ever regretted investing in the kitchen. Small things like a timer (with three concurrent timers!) or mise en place dishes, medium things like a carbon steel pan, or large things like an induction cooktop all increase the joy of cooking

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 06/03/2024

Please share if they help! I couldn’t understand anything on my first flight, and if this helps significantly I may also invest

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 24/02/2024

Likewise! I will undoubtedly be going slower since I can only study a few hours a week between work and a kid, but it would be super interesting to see the difference between an AU and EU PPL program!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 23/02/2024

I got my FBI background check returned early (what a terrible process) and signed my PPL practical training contract after my intro flight last week!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 19/02/2024

Is an RPL an Australian thing? I just started my PPL in Germany and we don’t have anything like that. We do have an LPPL for lighter aircraft, but nothing that restricts distance

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 31/01/2024

The cool thing about being a bluesky user in europe is that all the bugs appear and are fixed while I’m sleeping

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 02/01/2024

Erotic videos are just fine, but don’t make me pick up a package you decided you didn’t want to deliver at a dirty, seedy porn shop please

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 02/01/2024

My new favorite activity is traveling to the erotic video rental shop to pick up a package UPS couldn’t deliver because I wasn’t home (I work from home)

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 02/01/2024

The final architecture gets *so* close to this, but stops short of the cooperation bit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fin...

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 02/01/2024

I’m not a write though so someone else else should make it

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 02/01/2024

Had an idea for a story where everyone on earth disappears as the new year rolls in and the clock hits midnight. People in the west slowly discover that people are disappearing thanks to the internet, and by the time it hits the US, people are saying goodbye. Only the 3 people on the ISS survive

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 14/12/2023

In germany it’s physically impossible for ups to find your address. Just can’t do it

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 13/12/2023

has npm link ever worked?

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 12/12/2023

German dentists are nicer than American dentists by far

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 29/11/2023

There’s something magical about working with ASTs. I normally don’t need to use them, but when I do my power feels limitless

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 14/11/2023

Really good UX on GitHub when creating a PR with lots of changed files and the inputs slow to a crawl. 11/10 great job!

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 13/11/2023

Officially a part of the mushrooms, on shiitake no less, probably my favorite mushroom! plc.directory/did:plc:teyl...

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 17/10/2023

That’s exactly why I pretty much stopped using it, but am now thinking I might give it a go and see if I can get better at quick manual focusing. Otherwise I’m sticking with the 35mm 1.8 FE, which is also decent though not as lovely in anyway 🥲

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 17/10/2023

I’m pretty sure you’re no actually looking to buy another lens, but if you ever are, I *really* love my Zeiss Loxia 50mm f2. It’s manual focus, and “slow”, but the sharpness and color rendering are really great. It’s also small and pretty light! www.dpreview.com/products/zei...

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 26/09/2023

I gotta ask where you got this, it’s amazing.

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 09/09/2023

Hi I wrote about my struggle to use variable fonts on macOS with SwiftUI and how I got it to work. Maybe you’ll find it useful, too. mike-engel.com/writing/vari...

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Variable fonts on macOS with SwiftUI

How to add variable font support in a SwiftUI project for mac.

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Mike Engel @mike-engel.com · 22/08/2023

Wrote my first rust macro today 🥹

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