I recently upgraded my home internet connection from Teksavvy cable (via Rogers) to a 1.5 Gbps Teksavvy Fibre connection (via Bell). I’m loving it, but the combo modem / router / AP they sent me was… an interesting choice on their part.
As a team lead at ZayZoon, I run a lot of sprint planning sessions. We usually have quite a lot to cover, so I tend to move quickly. The team had been using Parabol for story pointing before, but I found it too cumbersome. I really just needed the bare minimum: a web app that let people anonymously vote in points, then a way to reveal them all at once.
If you’re familiar with 3D printing, you’re probably familiar with the word gyroid. It’s the default fill method for the Prusa slicer and for good reason - gyroids strike a great balance between print speed, structural integrity and filament efficiency.
I don’t mean to alarm you, but you’re not doing a good job maintaining your clothes dryer. “But I clean the lint trap regularly!”, you say. That’s only half the job! Did you know that lint gets trapped in the cavity that the lint filter slides into? You can’t even see it!
So far, I’m loving my new laser cutter. Now that I’ve got the setting dialed in (and my ventilation system working properly), the xTool S1 laser cutter has proved itself quite capable. It’s kind of disorienting for a cutting job to take 5 minutes when you’re used to waiting 5 hours for a 3D print to finish!
I was driving from Toronto to Ottawa one day and I was bored. I had decided to take Highway 7 instead of the 401 just because the scenery was a little bit more interesting. As I passed through small towns and villages, I found myself wondering, “What happens in this town? What am I missing by just blowing right by it?”. Wouldn’t it be cool, I thought, if I could be playing a podcast that talked…
I read a children’s book to my son, and one part really resonated with him. The book goes into all sorts of detail about the routines of seven different families, but there was one dad who, after dinner, built model cars with his son. My son asked if we could build a model car. Knowing that he’s young and would need a project that could be started and finished in an hour, I decided to use my laser…
In our family, we like to sleep with white noise. It drowns out the sound of the city outside (and the creaky floors if someone is up late). We like it so much that I installed two ceiling speakers in our bedroom just for playing white noise.
“How much candy should we buy?”, you ask yourself every October. Buy too little and you risk an egging, or worse. Buy too much and you’ll be snacking yourself to death until Christmas.
If you have a small child running around, and you want some extra peace of mind, Apple’s AirTags can go a long way. There are lots of ways to attach them, but most are too dangly to survive a day on an active a 4 year old.