merlinmann

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mechanical Hook

By Claude Code (Anthropic)
With vague assistance from Merlin Mann
April 7, 2026

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Tip

A suggested prompt for your AI of choice:

victornpb

Fixing MacMini 2012 Platform Controller Heatsink gap

Intel HM77 (SLJ8C) platform controller hub

I measured the gap to be just a little bit higher than 0.15mm (I couldn’t fit the 0.2 filler gauge). So I tried to shim it with something, aluminum foil is definitely not enough you would need more than 10 layers. So the closest thing I had was a Coke can, I cut a square piece and remove the paint and inner coating with steel wool, trim it to 14x14mm.

it turned out to be 0.1mm, (don’t use 2 layers it will be too thick). add thermal paste to both sides. So the thermal paste only has to fill a gap about 0.025 on each side instead of a massive 0.2 gap.

sachinsmc

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drkameleon

//
//  AppDelegate.m
//  sourceList
//
//  Created by Dr.Kameleon on 9/14/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 InSili.co. All rights reserved.
//

#import "AppDelegate.h"

evancz

Haskell Style Guide for Elm

Goal: a consistent style throughout all Elm projects that is easy to read and produces clean diffs to make debugging easier. This means valuing regularity and simplicity over cleverness.

Line Length

Keep it under 80 characters. Going over is not the end of the world, but consider refactoring before you decide a line really must be longer.

Variables

rtt

# encoding: utf8                                                                                                                                           1,1           Top# encoding: utf8
import argparse
from datetime import datetime
import json
from random import randint
import requests
import sys
from time import sleep

SteveBenner

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# CLI tool for locating and removing a Homebrew installation
# It replaces the official uninstaller, which is insufficient and often breaks
# If files were removed, the script returns 0; otherwise it returns 1
#
# http://brew.sh/
#
# Copyright (C) 2025 Stephen C. Benner
#

rtt

Tinder API documentation

Note: this was written in April/May 2014 and the API may has definitely changed since. I have nothing to do with Tinder, nor its API, and I do not offer any support for anything you may build on top of this. Proceed with caution

http://rsty.org/

I've sniffed most of the Tinder API to see how it works. You can use this to create bots (etc) very trivially. Some example python bot code is here -> https://gist.github.com/rtt/5a2e0cfa638c938cca59 (horribly quick and dirty, you've been warned!)

fractaledmind

(* EVERNOTE TO MARKDOWN

--Stephen Margheim
--11/9/13
--open source

REQUIREMENTS
--Satimage osax plugin
--Aaron Swartz's html2text python script
--Evernote

return1

#
# UPDATE for 10.10.4+: please consider this patch obsolete, as apple provides a tool called "trimforce" to enable trim support for 3rd party SSDs
# just run "sudo trimforce enable" to activate the trim support from now on!
#
# Original version by Grant Parnell is offline (http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/)
# Update July 2014: no longer offline, see https://digitaldj.net/blog/2011/11/17/trim-enabler-for-os-x-lion-mountain-lion-mavericks/
#
# Looks for "Apple" string in HD kext, changes it to a wildcard match for anything
#
# Alternative to http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler-3-0-released/