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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation: the plastic band that held the foam part onto the lock ring, by making the edge…
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood for the handle, and attaches it with screws; I hope he’s using washers. The design is…
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
Meta was barfing, so I turned to Claude, to help with something I’ve never been good at: Gutenberg Blocks. I asked it to make a block that writes the shortcode. I guess it did exactly that, but that’s not really what I wanted! The code it produced almost worked. It was intended for a flat…
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
I gave Meta AI a break, because I had to do most of the refactoring and debugging by hand. I lost track of time, but I’m guessing it was 4 or 5 hours work, because I had a typo that screwed me up for at least an hour.
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
This wasn’t a good session. Aside: Cleaning up Meta.ai’s code I griped about the code formatting, so I asked it to help me out: write a composer config script that will: delete backups that end in ~; run PHP code beautifier with the WordPress format on all the PHP files Refactoring Continues I continued with…
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get my Regolith + i3xrocks working right. So here’s what I’m doing. First, create .config/regolith3/i3xrocks/conf.d Then, copy…
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
I decided to drop into Meta AI to see how it did with this code. Unfortunately, it took a couple hours, and the code wasn’t as good as Gemini.
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
So, I decided to beautify the code, and the tool told me there were a lot of errors and problems, so I spent today trying to fix those. Start time: 2:37, end time: 4:50. I still had problems, but… Some of the errors were not errors. Some of the errors, when fixed, caused minor bugs.…
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
This continues the work in the post Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections. We complete the admin by linking the ID to the post, fixing the Delete feature, adding a CAPTCHA and a settings screen.
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
I sat down with Google Gemini to try and write a WordPress plugin to allow site visitors to suggest spelling corrections or other corrections. The TL;DR: it helped a lot, but started to make errors that were hard (for me) to solve shortly after starting. As the plugin got more complex, the help it offered…
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Plastic Tubing Leak Repair Lifehack
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Downshiftism
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Get in Touch
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3