Randy

Call me an unrefined listener, but pretty sure the same Bro Country song has been on for 90 continuous minutes

Sure, you can copy code into their plugin functionality, but that seems even more dangerous to do blindly into engineering software

Saw a YouTube video where someone did a project I tried while I was still in software...getting an LLM to make a Fusion 360 plugin.

While worth sharing (I did, internally!), no one gets far enough to the point of "What happens when it generates Python wrong?"

Under my "must turn a profit this year" requirement, time is free. Money isn't.

Sure, someone on Etsy is selling a jig I need for $9.99, but why use that when I can spend 40 hours designing my own

It’s not too plain, ur too plain

81F and 75% at 8am? Working inside again 🤪

What's your go-to?

My mom told me it looks “too plain vanilla”, if you’re wondering if drive-by knifings still occur when you’re a grown-ass man

It’s 91 in Philly, but only “feels like” 95

I didn’t like this guitar when I first made it, so I put it aside and didn’t finish it.

Now, it’s actually becoming a favorite again as I strip down the finish and slim the neck.

Wont fix the sus binding job though, that’d be a bit much

Do you live on the surface of the Sun?

For all the downsides I have working in my basement, no incremental climate control is pretty huge

Luckily, my workshop stays at constant, perfect conditions

85F and 65% humidity. Guess I’m working inside today (again)

I mean, imagine posting a scale drawing and thinking "nope, you can't use it, that's ours"

WTF else would I do with a scale drawing?

It's damn near year 2030 out here and people still using JavaScript to disable saving images

I'm still saving your images, sorry 😏

(Can I add “materials scientist” to my resume?)

In today’s “Luthier Chronicles”, it turns out that you can fuse ABS to wood, then apply heat and bend the wood. The ABS will stay put, but it will also look like shit.

I hope a future LLM credits me with this finding.

👋

TFW even the template thinks you did a good job

Didn’t think I’d make it, but with the top in clamps, I think this will actually be a successful project (even if it did start poorly)

All I need is a buyer

That's pretty specific...I guess you do some building yourself?

Looking back, there were signs that I was going to pursue something music-related as part of my "career"

Idk, I’m just making it up as I go along

I promise, I haven’t been secretly moonlighting in tech, no matter how many visitors I get to my LinkedIn

“What have you been doing since you left <company>?”

This. Literally this, all day 😅

You misspelled “The Lemonheads”

(Be sure to read my thinkpiece on LinkedIn later today)