Joe Pasqua

You remember when Zoom was so great because it wasn't a bloated, confusing mess like WebEx?

Ah, those were the days...

Well, Amazon still insists my package will be delivered today. It's 3:53PM and it still shows as not shipped yet. Unless one of my neighbors has a secret Amazon warehouse in their yard, I don't think they are going to make it.

the left edge of the safari scrollbar while it is not all the way to the left

An image showing how it is cut off when scrolled all the way to the left

Another #LiquidGlass problem: the horizontal scrollbar in Safari is cut off on the left due to the increased radius of the window "corner".

The first attached image shows the left edge of the scrollbar while it is not all the way to the left. The second […]

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@brouhaha I’ve followed your work - amazing. Yes, the display is very cool.

@brouhaha I’ve always been an HP guy, but that is pretty!

Is there anyone out in #hamradio land that has one of the new #ICOM IC-7300 MK2 transceivers? I'd love to hear a review from someone other than a youtuber or retailer. Nothing against either of those groups, but I would like to hear more of a "person on the street" opinion.

The MK2 would be […]

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not a voracious reader, but over the decades of my life, I've read a lot of books, most of which I couldn't name. I find this quote wonderful, in part because it […]

2025 stats from online #hamradio testing with the WM7X.net team:

2,542 got their Technician licenses
1,268 upgraded to General
498 upgraded to Amateur Extra

We had a total of 4,035 distinct applicants - some took more than one exam. A few took and passed all three in one sitting.

Even with […]

I happened to look at my #HamRadio Volunteer Examiner stats today and noticed that I've been in 499 sessions. It should roll to 500 tomorrow. All of these sessions were with the WM7X team. (https://wm7x.net).

I don't think I can figure out the total number of people I've tested. I'm not in […]

Thanks for pointing this out Trevor. I think one of these with the Anderson Power Pole option is in my future. Or it may motivate me to build something like it. Or more likely, I will look at my list of unfinished projects and just order one.
https://hachyderm.io/@trevorflowers/115865815536078324

It sure is nice to have power and internet back after 3 days. We dealt with the power outage pretty well with backup batteries, but loosing the internet was a challenge. There's nothing tougher than being forced to be alone with your thoughts for days on end ;-)

Actually, there is one thing […]

Well, that was a first. I just gave a #hamradio Technician exam remotely to a college student who happened to be on a cruise in the Caribbean. It was pretty cool, and yes, he passed.

Funny, I don't remember any cruises while I was in college. My typical activity during breaks was going to visit […]

If Alan Dye is the person at Apple who is responsible for Liquid Glass, then I couldn’t be happier that he’s leaving to go to Meta. Just sorry it wasn’t sooner.

I’ve been waiting for the #BambuLab H2C to be unveiled so I could check it out. Now that I have, I ordered an H2S instead.

I really just wanted a bigger, updated X1C and that’s basically the H2S. Back ordered until 12/21.

@colin_mcmillen I haven't uploaded but it's just because I've been lazy. I'm happy to share it.

I've had an uncharacteristically productive morning. My wife woke up early and I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and did some (#hamradio) #FT8. I pretty quickly got 13 contacts into Japan which was fun.

Then I was on a high so I got out and did a 5 mile walk along the beach. It's now ~8 […]

@colin_mcmillen Thank you. I hadn’t though about applicability to an external drive.

I got a BMOW FloppyEmu for my #Apple IIc and made an insert to expose it in the 5.25" drive opening. This prototype is pretty close to the final version. I just need to tighten a couple of tolerances and I'll be happy.

I extended wires for the buttons and […]

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@kalleboo Because we're far too "sophisticated" now for that sort of thing.

@brouhaha what’s the point arithmetic

OK, a #dumbjoke about #startrek #tng:

What do Picard's Security Officer, Medical Officer, and Counselor have in common?

One is a Worf, one is a Doc, and the other is a Marina

The interface of the macOS Tahoe Systems Settings app. The Search field is very difficult to discern because the layer below is showing through the "Liquid Glass"

Disclaimer: I'm about as far from being a UI/UX person as you can get.

Having said that, if I had an employee who demoed a project with a UI like the one in the attached screenshot, I would discreetly talk to their manager afterwards and ask if we needed to get that person some additional training.

Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl@w3c.social) Attached: 1 image A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with Thomas Friedman made for a great atmosphere last night. Huge thanks to Tom for the questions covering the web's history, it's future and everything in between 🌐

I grew up with Kepler’s. It’s been in multiple locations over the decades (all within a few blocks), and it almost went under thanks to Amazon, but it remains a great local bookstore with incredible guests. Case in point:
https://w3c.social/@timbl/115345706880517151

System 8.1 Install Process

A friend of a friend gave me their old #PowerMac 8500 with Sonnet G3 upgrade. There was no internal drive so I mounted an internal BlueSCSI.

The plastic is super-brittle. Pretty much any part I touched snapped into pieces. I got things back together again […]

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An image of the opening cut into the bottom of a BambuLab AMS. A printed border is placed in the opening top clean up the edges and provide a place for a TPU "plug" to fit into securely.

If you have a #BambuLab #AMS, you might be interested in the "AMS PTFE Access Mod". You cut an opening in the bottom of the AMS that provides access to the PTFE couplers so you can easily clean out broken filament. A TPU "plug" fits into a printed border to […]

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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with them there.
-- The late, great, Mitch Hedberg

@aka_pugs What an impact he has had!

I was on a panel with Andy once. You can tell how fascinated he was in my comments ;-)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, thank goodness for repeater timeouts!

Right now I’m listening to a history of the Great Depression. Did you know that “unlike then, people now just don’t want to work”? Ugh.

#hamradio #amateurradio

Heard this today and appreciated it:

“Sometimes you have to be a bit too optimistic in order to make a difference.”

Some of my best work has come from diving into tasks I had no business thinking I could handle.

#optimism

Knock knock
Who's there?
HIPPA
HIPAA Who?
Sorry, I can't tell you that

#dumbjoke #usprivacyregulation