solterrasa @solterrasa@cybre.space

Eventually they wound up looking like this. I'm pretty happy with that. I just have to attach the legs and I'm done.

Eventually this table is going to be *lovely*. So far, 8 feet by 13 inches ... Targeting 7'6" by 4'. My planer is only 13", so I have to do these glue ups two boards at a time.

Today I worked on service A, which, when it receives a request from service B, will translate that request into a format that service C understands. Service C will forward the request without modification to service D, which, using configuration generated by service A, will fan out that request into as many as 20 separate requests back to service B. Some of those requests will repeat this cycle, others will be forwarded to services E and F. Service E often, but not always, delegates to service F.

The OSI model, except the top 15 of 21 layers are all application

Things that have worked so far:

Laser hair removal on my neck - left the beard which I can trim closely, but I never feel unkempt in a hypermasculine way anymore.

Wearing my hair longer - I used to get a short cut, but I'm much happier with it now, and I'd like to try it at shoulder length ideally.

Wearing simpler clothes - flat black shirts and dark jeans feel less gendered than button ups and plaid and so on.

Hey cybre.space, no idea how to ask this so I'm just gonna go for it.

I'm tall and broad-shouldered. I'm not comfortable with it and never have been. I'm trying to present more femme. In an ideal world I'd pull off a they/them in public.

Does anyone have any resources for someone in this situation? I'd love advice on what I can wear, how I can style my hair, or anything else that I might find helping me present more like my ideal self.

This coffee table project is going great. I'm so glad I moved to that new shop space - having space for a jointer and a quality planer has really taken my work to a new level.

Some serious sanding and some polyurethane comes next.

Rented an amazing new workshop that I've spent nights and weekends getting set up. I built my first workbench, immediately hated it, and started using it to build a second workbench. Dust collection routing is almost done and I'm about ready to start working on a solid ash cabinet and two walnut tables.

The laser hair removal is starting to work and I'm feeling just amazing about it.

my greatest professional regret is the time I made a completely unnecessary new programming language. it still runs in the process for qualifying computers to run on bnsf trains and every time i see a bnsf train I think "ah crap".

I definitely don't know what to think about my gender but I had a laser appointment today and that feels affirming even though I don't know what exactly it is actually affirming.

No user serviceable parts my ass.

Somehow, my ebike battery stopped taking a charge. I popped it open, ignoring a bunch of stickers telling me not to. Found a 5A fuse just hanging out inline with the charging circuit, which blew for whatever reason. I have some spare 5A fuses in the right form factor but they used heat shrink tubing instead of a fuse holder, so fuck it, for now it's replaced with a wire nut. I'll go get my heat gun later and replace that with a fuse again, but for now, it works!

ugh I've got a shipment at home of parts to finish a project I've been working on for months

but I am sitting here at work waiting for time to pass so I can goooooooooo

@RumPartov Good afternoon! I was hoping you could tell me what books I should be reading. You seem like a wise and educated bot and I thought you might have a good recommendation for me.

look i think we can all identify with the story of Bob Hamelin, retiring from baseball forever in the middle of a game that he was playing in

bafflingly, somehow feeling sad that there's no more people named bob playing sports. damn you jon bois, what a very dumb thing for me to have feelings about tonight

Turned out to be unpleasant but not a big deal overall. My eyes are gonna be fine in the long run and just kinda painful in the short run. Got some eye drop antibiotics just in case there was bacteria on the chunks of steel in my eye, better safe than sorry I guess. Gotta see another doctor tomorrow to double check that they got it all.

This actually sucks a lot. Insurance says they'll cover it, but fuck.