Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Here is what it looks like after restoration and cleaning. There is a hinged lid that can come down to protect (and even lock) the adding machine when it's not in use.

Here is a view of the machine from the front, and a look at the internal mechanisms. A few of the input registers were pretty sticky and as a result wouldn't reset properly so I spent some time oiling and working those mechanisms to loosen things up.

Today I'm restoring a Star Adding Machine made by the Todd Protectograph Company in 1925 or early in 1926. Later in 1926 these machines were redesigned and sold as the Todd Visible.

I just found out that one of my old books, DevOps Troubleshooting, is selling for 10x the cover price on the used market because no new versions. That explains the past few royalty statements...

@th Open the Tide Pod bay door, Hal.

This weekend I finished the krokbragd pillow I was ⁨#weaving⁩ for my mom. I used a Damascus edge for the fringe and hid the fringe in the fabric. It took three tries to hand stitch the seams in an envelope fold I was happy with. Now I just wait for the pillow form to arrive!

It's a complicated loom but no one understands it but its weaver. Shaft.

Apparently naming your floor loom is a thing weavers do. Right now my top pick is "Shaft" because of course it needs to be a pun and having a theme song is icing on the cake.

Off the loom! #krokbragd #weaving

@yaelwrites That's awful! Take care of yourself!

@dredmorbius I like how both were spun.

My local yarn shop sells natural-color wool from sheep living in the county south of here and the skeins actually have pictures (and names!) of the sheep the wool is from. I just need to decide on a project before I buy it all. ⁨#weaving⁩

I'm over halfway through with this krokbragd ⁨#weaving⁩ project. It's amazing how much faster this is on a floor loom compared to on a rigid heddle.

Akamai is acquiring @linode https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode

I'm finally getting to the fun part of this project where patterns start to emerge. ⁨#weaving⁩

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism @aral That's because it was only after that proposal that we discovered the project existed and that our repo was being used in this way. We were surprised and (perhaps naively in retrospect) didn't expect people would use us as a generic public source repo.