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JimmyWires
@jimmywires.bsky.social
Human person for sure. I'm into woodworking, electronics, wellness, and being a good person.
I love how PowerToys is 30 years old and still not v1.0.
July 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"9/10 times the number of turns for bikes will be 10x what it is to drive."

I've read this sentence 9/10 times and I still don't get it.
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Well? What's on the list?
January 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
As a very young and curious lad, I kept a shoebox full of wires, switches and other interesting electronics I had disassembled. I got this nickname from my dad after I accidentally disabled all of the phones in the house by shorting out the nest of bell wire in the attic.
January 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
An 8th grader made that?? Top marks indeed.
January 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy it went well for you! What kinds of projects are in store for the students this term?
January 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I saw a show like 25 years ago and the inside of my wallet smelled like smoke afterwards.
January 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I've never had to do that, so I'm not entirely sure. I have read that using BLE is better than fiddling with wires though.
December 31, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I'm decent, with a very high probability of being human. 10001110101!
December 26, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I had one of these in my dorm room! Remember when dorms had landlines?
December 2, 2024 at 2:55 AM
I'm a simple country chicken. I like maple and walnut. If I'm getting fancy, sapele.
November 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Thanks so much. The controller is about 10' from the sensor (and through the floor to the basement where the PSU is mounted) so I used 18-6 wire. That kinda takes STEMMA QT out of the running. The photo was from my testing. I actually soldered the 18awg directly to the sensor. It felt so wrong!
November 13, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Neat project! A hundred years ago in college I wrote a simple webserver in C. Tremendously useful for understanding how everything works.
October 31, 2024 at 7:37 PM