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(for me) Sometimes your job might make you run reference time for a large service provider... and then you need multiple reference signals... and then you realize you have spares that are going to be thrown away... and suddenly your home lab becomes way too geeky for you to admit to 99.999999989% of your friends... unless they also are on the same time email list as you ;)


> time email list

How do wannabe time nerds find this email list?


http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

Any time we fix an old radio that goes down to 60 Khz, I always have to see if WWVB is coming in loud enough to be heard.


Thank you!


I'd debate that the custom LCD buttons made the difference... I've got a few macro keypads for some specific use cases, I ended up with a elgato for a -very- niche radio related use case and love it


If this spiked your interest... take a look at https://satnogs.org


thanks a lot, much appreciated


I have a 3 character .com as my primary email... it gets rejected more often than I'd like... including at my bank :) I've got a longer more normal domain that I alias, but it annoys me none the less.


Have you got this lot sorted out:

  MX->A->PTR->A->MX
  SPF
  DKIM
  DMARC
  mta-sts - DNS and webpage
Also your IPs must be squeaky bum clean, ideally for several years. DNSSEC might help too. In the UK getting as far as DKIM is usually enough (plus clean IPs, even FTTC connections will work if static).


Raised with my grandmother with Alzheimer for all of my childhood she called me by her long dead brother's name.

Walked out the door one day said "See you later grandma" and she said "Have fun ______" and called me by my real name, called my older siblings and said go spend time, she died two days later.

Very common.


https://conormclaughlin.net/2024/04/published-how-i-finished...

I have used this on my tidbyt (now a Tronbyt) for years for this purpose... simple solution tied into my adsb system


Ham radio as a whole is a great hobby to sink your random RF projects into already.. its a hobby within a hobby, no matter what path you may take ;)


I have two of these up in my office.. absolutely love them


I remember the early gnutella releases and we'd use the search history as a chatroom for the first like 24 hours before it got too saturated ;)


Its one of the books I include in my 'desk library' at the office.. I'm an old graybeard, but it's an amazing book for folks to understand the joy and shortcommings and pressures a project can put on you


I hoovered up all the hardcover copies I could and for many years gave them as gifts to my teammates after our projects shipped. Mostly as thanks for a job well done, and just a tiny bit as an apology for what they'd just been through.


Did your team work similar jobs as described in the book? That must be fantastic! Yeah I know most of work is 80% chore, but at least the other 20% part is fantastic.


Entirely software, far above the Hardy Boys and Microkids in the stack. But the general pace and pressure of the story are still relatable.

I got the same vibes, by the way, from Season One of Halt and Catch Fire (recently and deservedly discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314).


I can't confirm it, but I think a few of the scenes from Halt and Catch Fire come from Soul of a New Machine.


Thanks for sharing!


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