Mikayla H
@mhut.ch
I make tools to help people create wonderful things • metalsmithing, gamedev, garden, & more • adhd • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 • prev. 🔭, 🏴, dotnet, xamarin • she/her • boston area
Sooooo my girlfriend hasn't seen the Matrix, but I showed her Bound first, and I'm honestly envious she gets to see them in that order
October 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Sooooo my girlfriend hasn't seen the Matrix, but I showed her Bound first, and I'm honestly envious she gets to see them in that order
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Last week, Dean Spade talked about how we’re all being socialized into being anti-social — which is really the heart of most of our problems today — and the only way out is to push ourselves to become social again.
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Last week, Dean Spade talked about how we’re all being socialized into being anti-social — which is really the heart of most of our problems today — and the only way out is to push ourselves to become social again.
I'm bemused by the difference between "jewellery" in the UK and "jewelry" in the US. I grew up in the schwa-heavy soup of the UK but learned jewelry skills in the US, and "jewelry" makes far more sense to me
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm bemused by the difference between "jewellery" in the UK and "jewelry" in the US. I grew up in the schwa-heavy soup of the UK but learned jewelry skills in the US, and "jewelry" makes far more sense to me
I went into a bar, and something triggered an idea for a jewelry design that was important enough that I opened my notes app to record it.
In my notes I found a half written idea, and was compelled to complete it. After that, my original idea had vanished #adhd
In my notes I found a half written idea, and was compelled to complete it. After that, my original idea had vanished #adhd
October 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I went into a bar, and something triggered an idea for a jewelry design that was important enough that I opened my notes app to record it.
In my notes I found a half written idea, and was compelled to complete it. After that, my original idea had vanished #adhd
In my notes I found a half written idea, and was compelled to complete it. After that, my original idea had vanished #adhd
Beginning to mentally reframe myself as a "designer / maker". My short term goal is making jewelry as art and maybe a business, but I love dabbling in all sorts of disciplines and love making tools, and don't want to leave software entirely, so it's difficult to define exactly what I do...
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Beginning to mentally reframe myself as a "designer / maker". My short term goal is making jewelry as art and maybe a business, but I love dabbling in all sorts of disciplines and love making tools, and don't want to leave software entirely, so it's difficult to define exactly what I do...
I have wondered about ways to use my metalsmithing skills to make things other than jewelry... and @lackingceremony.bsky.social's keynote at @qgcon.bsky.social now has me thinking about making metal artifacts for TTRPGs and how they might contribute to gameplay 🤔
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have wondered about ways to use my metalsmithing skills to make things other than jewelry... and @lackingceremony.bsky.social's keynote at @qgcon.bsky.social now has me thinking about making metal artifacts for TTRPGs and how they might contribute to gameplay 🤔
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Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
I kinda wanna create a cathartic social media app where the messages just disappear into the void without anyone ever seeing them
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I kinda wanna create a cathartic social media app where the messages just disappear into the void without anyone ever seeing them
Slow but steady progress on the jeweler's bench... finished edge banding and sanding on all 14 drawers, but unfortunately I left my Osmo TopOil 3025 cap loose and it dried out so I can't finish them yet 😩
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Slow but steady progress on the jeweler's bench... finished edge banding and sanding on all 14 drawers, but unfortunately I left my Osmo TopOil 3025 cap loose and it dried out so I can't finish them yet 😩
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
I would pay good money to be able to temporarily hide political posts from my social media feeds... would make compartmentalization much easier
September 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I would pay good money to be able to temporarily hide political posts from my social media feeds... would make compartmentalization much easier
Feels weird to think that the first pieces of jewelry I sell are likely to be castings when the thing that I most love about jewelry making is working in metal directly. But I love how this piece turned out, and casting scales so much better....
Here's a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese that I hand-carved in wax at a figurative wax carving class with Kate Wolf in Portland, ME.
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
September 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Feels weird to think that the first pieces of jewelry I sell are likely to be castings when the thing that I most love about jewelry making is working in metal directly. But I love how this piece turned out, and casting scales so much better....
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Here's a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese that I hand-carved in wax at a figurative wax carving class with Kate Wolf in Portland, ME.
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
September 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Here's a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese that I hand-carved in wax at a figurative wax carving class with Kate Wolf in Portland, ME.
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
Here's a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese that I hand-carved in wax at a figurative wax carving class with Kate Wolf in Portland, ME.
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
September 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Here's a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese that I hand-carved in wax at a figurative wax carving class with Kate Wolf in Portland, ME.
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄
I've been exploring the idea of creating a jewelry business and maybe going back to software only part time or not at all - but I haven't really figured out my creative voice and "brand" yet, let alone a business model 😞
August 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I've been exploring the idea of creating a jewelry business and maybe going back to software only part time or not at all - but I haven't really figured out my creative voice and "brand" yet, let alone a business model 😞
Final tally of my lapidary work from 8 days of classes with Michael Boyd - I focused on the lapidary side, but learned a ton about integrating stone and metal, and excited by all the possibilities this opens up for my own designs 😄
August 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Final tally of my lapidary work from 8 days of classes with Michael Boyd - I focused on the lapidary side, but learned a ton about integrating stone and metal, and excited by all the possibilities this opens up for my own designs 😄
Miscalculated the amount of 1/4" plywood I needed for my drawer bottoms and ordered some more to make up the difference. But when it arrived and I started cutting, I realized I was still short by a factor of 2 😩
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Miscalculated the amount of 1/4" plywood I needed for my drawer bottoms and ordered some more to make up the difference. But when it arrived and I started cutting, I realized I was still short by a factor of 2 😩
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My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
Spent most of the day cutting and milling the drawers for my jeweler's standing bench, and started gluing. There are 7 drawers on each side and the smallest are only 1.5" high - perfect for making small and narrow things like files and measuring tools easy to find.
August 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Spent most of the day cutting and milling the drawers for my jeweler's standing bench, and started gluing. There are 7 drawers on each side and the smallest are only 1.5" high - perfect for making small and narrow things like files and measuring tools easy to find.
It's jarring how a lot of young queer folks today have a completely ahistoric understanding of the term "gay panic" that seems to be primarily rooted in ignorance of our recent past rather than a desire for reclamation (and I don't think "reclamation" even really makes sense in this context).
August 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It's jarring how a lot of young queer folks today have a completely ahistoric understanding of the term "gay panic" that seems to be primarily rooted in ignorance of our recent past rather than a desire for reclamation (and I don't think "reclamation" even really makes sense in this context).
Designed drawer stacks to hang under my standing bench, and was making solid progress on them until the template guide bushing came loose, wrecked itself on the router bit, and spun across the floor in a shower of brass shavings. Project on hold until I can get a replacement bushing 😩
July 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Designed drawer stacks to hang under my standing bench, and was making solid progress on them until the template guide bushing came loose, wrecked itself on the router bit, and spun across the floor in a shower of brass shavings. Project on hold until I can get a replacement bushing 😩
I have fond memories of hanging out in TeamSpeak with a couple guildmates guarding a dead-quiet borderland in @guildwars2.com WvW at 3am a decade ago, somehow drunkenly deciding it should be "musical night", and all singing along to everything we did for a couple hours
July 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I have fond memories of hanging out in TeamSpeak with a couple guildmates guarding a dead-quiet borderland in @guildwars2.com WvW at 3am a decade ago, somehow drunkenly deciding it should be "musical night", and all singing along to everything we did for a couple hours