The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning
Ed Nisley's Blog: Shop notes, electronics, firmware, machinery, 3D printing, laser cuttery, and curiosities. Contents: 100% human thinking, 0% AI slop.
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Over the past year, the ancient WordPress theme I use for this blog has gradually stopped working, to the extent that some of you cannot enter comments and the GitHub Gists no longer display properly.
So it’s once again time for a new theme.
The notes from the last time this happened remain appropriate and I commend your attention there while I screw around setting up whatever the new hotness might be.
It seems nobody else can find all the fuse boxes hidden around a Forester, either, and water heater anode rods continue to pose a challenge:
What is it about the Thermador heater?
Surely better cat pictures would create more traffic:
So I asked the WordPress AI to come up with a picture, given the minimal text in this post:
The cat has approximately the right number of legs, if not toes, but what is the head in the corner?
Let’s take the rest of the day off …
Perhaps an AI / LLM has learned to write just like I do:
The same thing happened last month, although a closer look shows no human can read that fast:
These Dirac-delta pulses seem to be a new thing, with one “reader” hitting many posts, rather than many readers hitting a single post. I can’t tell if it’s a new way for search engines to scan pages or an entirely new algorithm doing the scanning.
Should you run across another blog with similar verbiage, you know where it started …
Last week, somebody evidently found the blog interesting enough to more than double the usual page view count:
Singlehandedly tripled the “Views per visitor” number from the usual 1.3-ish to 3.6, too.
It happens occasionally and sometimes I go back and read a few dozen posts just to remind myself what I was doing / thinking at the time.
The process of transferring domain ownership from Network Solutions to WordPress may take five to seven days, for reasons I do not profess to understand, and may interrupt regular service.
Until that settles out, here’s a cat picture to tide you over:
I suppose if you can’t see the cat or read this post, things have really fallen off the rails.
To give you an idea of why I’m doing this:
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Here we go …
The sellers have accepted our offer on their house, so over the course of the next couple of months we’ll be moving, then selling this place. Having begun dismantling and packing the contents of the Basement Shop, Laboratory, and Warehouse, my blog-worthy activities will grind to a temporary halt.
Should you or anyone you know be interested in moving to the trendy Hudson Valley region, we have a conveniently located property with a shop-ready basement:
Maybe we can make a deal …
Another problem with the same monitor as before:
This one looks like an ordinary broken link:
Mary has some opinions on their software testing process, but AFAICT that entire department is missing in action.
Having spent entirely too much time on the road and not nearly enough time in the shop, things will be quiet around here for a few days.
Drive to stay alive …
