Daniel Hepper

🐍 Pythonista 🏃‍♂️ Amateur runner 👨‍👩‍👦 Dad

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In today’s episode of “Spending way to much time and money on a stupid idea”, I proudly present you my PoE-powered can of spam.

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@bryan_johnson @dhh @tobi Daniel Ricciardo said it best https://t.co/KM2QR7jtvV

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Can we please all agree that reenacting this part of Terminator is enough and we skip the part with the nuclear armageddon?

https://t.co/Ql01HWObbB

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Programming in 2026

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@CoachDanGo Not saving time or money, but sparking a bit of joy in others. New lamp shades for my parents. A drawer organizer for my wife. Personalized treasure chests for my son‘s birthday party.

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TIL the hard way that the build plate isn’t just for decoration. I ruined my heated bed surface with a remote print. 😐

Before anyone asks: the print actually turned out surprisingly well.

@anycubic3dprint, does your warranty cover stupidity?

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Nearing the halfway point on day 12, my experiment hit a rough patch.

Once again, I hadn’t made time for it during the day, leaving me with another late-night session. I stopped after 20 minutes because compromising sleep didn’t seem like a smart trade-off.

I’ve noticed that these sessions leave me feeling wired afterwards. At the end of the day, that’s simply a poor allocation of energy.

Also, after initially dropping by about 30% last week, my screen time has climbed right back to its previous level.

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I’ve devolved from Homo sapiens sapiens into Homo distractus.

To reverse the trend, I’m running a little experiment:

For 30 days, I’m going to stare at a dot on a wall for one hour a day.

Today was day one.

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According to my Garmin, I will end up burning 5000 calories today. That means it’s totally legitimate to scoop caramel peanut butter straight out of the jar, right? RIGHT?!?

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When I put this tweet into Claude for spell-checking, it remarked:
"For the record: there is no list. Which is, admittedly, exactly what someone maintaining a list would say."

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Every time Claude passive-aggressively opens with "This is a bigger design change…", I worry that I just moved up a few spots on the Great Purge list.
Quick question: does the right to be forgotten under GDPR cover kill lists?

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Day 3. An unexpected obstacle appeared: the weekend, with family plans that didn’t account for me sitting still for an hour.

So here I am at 1:11 a.m., after staring at a dimly lit door for an hour.

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I’ve devolved from Homo sapiens sapiens into Homo distractus.

To reverse the trend, I’m running a little experiment:

For 30 days, I’m going to stare at a dot on a wall for one hour a day.

Today was day one.

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Did I feel reborn with laser-sharp focus? No.

But at least I resisted the temptation to crawl into bed and curl up into a ball, a fantasy that had crossed my mind multiple times over the past hour.

Instead, I followed another impulse:

I’m going to document the experiment here.

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The sounds of children playing in a nearby playground became a welcome distraction.

Then a heavy drowsiness fell over me.

For a while, simply keeping my eyes open felt like the main challenge.

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One minute before the end, the kitchen timer beeped.

The sound sent a tingling sensation through my entire body and gave me new energy.

A few more deep breaths, and the hour was over.

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My mind spent some time digging up memories of deranged 4chan posts I had read about two decades ago.

When it wasn’t doing that, the dot began to dance.

Sometimes it split into two before I managed to refocus.

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Let me tell you: 60 minutes can feel very long when you don’t know when they’ll be over.

I tried to sit still, avoid fidgeting, and not scratch every itch.

I changed posture a few times. This is supposed to be a mental challenge, not a physical one.

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I’ve devolved from Homo sapiens sapiens into Homo distractus.

To reverse the trend, I’m running a little experiment:

For 30 days, I’m going to stare at a dot on a wall for one hour a day.

Today was day one.

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The setup is simple:

• Mark a dot on the wall
• Set a kitchen timer for 60 minutes
• Sit down and stare

To make it more interesting, I placed the timer behind me, so I wouldn’t know how much time was left.

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Every time I 3D print something, I can’t help thinking this is as close to magic as it gets:

Think up a thing, apply some mediocre 3D modelling skills, wait a bit - and it‘s real

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@NielsHoven That’s cheating, you are supposed to buy your sugar and salt in little pouches at $2 each.