More fence building today. The same fence as my last post for a riding arena. It was the same deal as last time, except more streamlined. It still ended up taking longer because the dirt hardpan was so much closer to the surface. We were almost done with the fence…
In my quest to develop skills, something I was hoping to run into was welding. It's a niche skill but I've always wanted to be able to do it. As luck would have it, the dad of one of my church friends decided to put on…
Out of all the people. After all my work. My little brother got perfect bed adhesion. He figured out the extruder tip was slightly too high, and would drag the extrusion on the build plate instead of smushing it into the texture, so it wasn't binding properly. He…
One of our close family friends rides horses for the San Joaquin P.D. Mounted Unit. She keeps the horses in a field on their property, and recently they've wanted to build a smaller enclosed riding arena. It only took 4 hours, counting planning. The fence panels had…
A couple of days ago my sister wrote up a big Google Doc report of some horse training stuff she was doing for a friend. My mom was wondering if there were any AI tools that she could feed the report to that could format it for her. Whether it…
I recently started learning how to create AI workflows. An AI workflow is essentially stitching together different online tools and using them as parts of a machine. The one I'm building right now has three nodes, and it works like this: I enter information into a form I…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 today. The first Mythos class model ever, and this is a heavily restricted version for public use. Apparently it's significantly more capable on "long, complex, multi-step work". I'm extremely excited to see what this thing can do. I…
My cousin graduated high school this year, and yesterday was his graduation party at Dillon Beach. The forest said a high of 63°f and 20mph winds on the beach. We get a lot of breeze and wind in California, but nothing like that. It didn't take long…