Michael K Johnson @mcdanlj@mastodon.cloud

I play wordle; my wife also plays many of the offshoot games. As we waited for our takeout to be ready, I asked, "Want to play one of your weirdles?"

We now have a general family name for these games, and I'm newly familiar with squaredle.app — in which I get lots of archaic words before noticing many of the words in current use.

I went looking this morning and discovered that you can buy a kit which *replaces* a stepper driver and turns a normal stepper motor drawing up to 3A into a closed-loop stepper, for less than $20. That's a pretty low incremental cost for going closed loop!

https://forum.makerforums.info/t/motion-detection/85550/4?u=mcdanlj

Why does social.makerforums.info exist? Why have both Discourse and Mastodon at Maker Forums? Do you want to join us?

https://forum.makerforums.info/t/introducing-maker-forums-social-mastodon/85533?u=mcdanlj

I've been working on a design for a keyway cutting tool for my lathe, based on a morse taper 3 quick-change tool holder. I finally learned that I can make hidden line animations in FreeCAD that make the inside workings clearer, so here's one to enjoy. ☺

https://forum.makerforums.info/t/keyway-cutter-design-and-project/85441?u=mcdanlj

I turned my notes about how I set up Mastodon on CentOS 9 derivatives with Docker into something I hope is useful for others.

https://musings.danlj.org/2022/06/04/mastodon-on-centos-9-derivatives.html

It would be really awesome to be able to follow `@k40@forum.makerforums.info` and see new posts (with threaded comments) from the forum throughout the fediverse. It wouldn't have to be bidirectional to be useful.

Anyone want to write a plugin for Discourse to enable that? It's mostly back-end work, and there are patterns between the RSS and chat integrations in Discourse that might make this a reasonable project for someone who doesn't know Ruby but is interested to learn.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/59?u=mcdanlj

It was interesting getting Mastodon up and running on AlmaLinux 9.

The CentOS 9 derivatives boot amazingly fast. At least half of my boot time to shell is waiting for grub! That's awesome for reducing the overhead of maintenance.

I ended up using Docker, which probably makes it take a few seconds longer to boot than if I just ran it all from source, but means I can manage all the services separately. It definitely makes tootctl take longer to run.

It's interesting having two (for the moment) Mastodon accounts running. i have been at @mcdanlj@mastodon.cloud for a few years, and now also am at @mcdanlj — which means that I get to see how well notifications flow around the fediverse, at least between those two accounts.

I'll *probably* end up redirecting my account at mastodon.cloud to the one at social.makerforums.info since I run that one. But I'm new to this running Mastodon thing! ☺

Collecting parts and having SendCutSend.com fabricate some parts to see if I can replicate what Russ Sadler did to his K40. But section by section instead of all at once.

When Google+ went away, I got permission from a bunch of community moderators to preserve community content on https://forum.makerforums.info including the wonderful #3dprinting community there. Occasionally folks find their old posts that I preserved for everyone's benefit, and it's always a pleasure when someone like @foosel shows up and enjoys a trip down memory lane.

But it's more than memory lane! We have several fairly active communities there and new folks keep showing up and joining us. 🎉