Paul Ruiz
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Paul Ruiz
@ptruiz.bsky.social
DevRel for mobile and IoT @ Google DeepMind
Gardener and maker
Opinions/spam my own
Two and a half months later, we bottled two kinds of mead. 15-18% of deliciousness. One is a white wine yeast and very sweet, other is dry with berries added to flavor it
April 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Weekend plan: master the Jaws theme to play on the piano in the living room when there's a child toddling around looking to cause chaos.
March 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
First official range day with a Colorado liberal gun owners group. Zeroed some stuff to 100 yards, moving drills for competition, some fun with my shotgun and suppressed 9mm. Grasslands are a wild place to go shooting. Balanced it out with starting some vegetable seeds.
March 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Nothing like looking over to see some nice smoke on the desk. Whoops. Sensor hit other pins in the rat nest of wires I currently have up.
February 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Finally got one of my #TheExpanse kits up and just brought it to the office because of space. Has a sweet #Gemini patch on it though, which feels fitting.
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Cylinder wasn't initially spinning because of the pawl. Going to take this plinking next week. I'm pretty damn stoked to have this running again since it's been sitting in a closet broken for the last decade.
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Tonight's project: fixing a replica cowboy revolver. Pawl had snapped, so I disassembled the entire thing to see how it works. Took me longer than I like to admit to realize the hammer wasn't seated on the main spring in the handle when I had first reassembled it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Took this a week after the last picture to measure difference. Should have cabbage, cauliflower, and celery soon, which is great because I really need the greenhouse space for new seed starts. #gardening #greenhouse
February 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Thing to learn for this weekend: fixing a 110 year old piano key. Looks like I just need to disassemble the whole key setup to re-pin the flange.
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Multiple inches of snow outside today, but this is growing strong in the greenhouse.
January 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
January 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
So my Tikka rifle has a proprietary magazine that cost ~$100 for the official steel version. 3D printed a new one with high rigidity/heat PLA and tossed in 1/3rd of an AK-74 spring and we're off to the races for ~$5 per magazine (and I have enough spring to do 9).
January 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Finally got around to making a venting system for the laser. Tested it out making the golden Voyager record that I've wanted for my space corner for a while. Pretty stoked with it.
July 4, 2023 at 6:07 PM