Things are coming together for the mailbox post project. Next step is to do some final assembly, staining, and shou sugi ban on the lower part of the post. #woodworking

I really do find it sad and pathetic a company worth in the billions of dollars is unable to communicate to its community through its own system or platform. Instead relay on a platform that breeds hate, generates AI CSAM, and loses users. Time to innovate @TeamYouTube @reneritchie.bsky.social

YouTube, imo, has video views all but useless as a metric in how your video is performing. Using engaged views as the new, true metric to follow. Thought the latest video was doing really great, only to realize that it's in line with the rest.

🔩 New episode: corded vs cordless tools, and the real math on what a cordless setup costs once you add batteries and a charger. Spoiler, it's almost $1,000 for one tool. Watch: youtu.be/18LU8O2Ez3o

Cordless Tools Are Costing You $1,000 (Here's the Math)

YouTube video by The Maker Dad

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I would like to start a thread of artist's blogs so I can subscribe to them using my RSS feed reader. I honestly hate "microblogging" posts, and constantly getting triggered every time I hop on social media is killing my mental health. Here's mine: coreyartusimagery.com/blogs/musings

Musings

Greeting cards, prints, and other art stationery items featuring hand drawn, human-made art.

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New blog post regarding the state of the internet from my perspective: coreyartusimagery.com/blogs/musing... #art #artistlife #indiesrtist

A Plea to Shop In-Person

Wherein I urge people to get offline and support artists in real life, not just virtually.

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🛠️ New Maker Dad Podcast episode! Mapping out my business startup checklist: name, EIN, entity type, and why your LLC's home address might come back to bite you. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4kaD7WCxf3Le6TtvkvWIdG 📺 youtu.be/_XdrwHlS4xQ

What I'm Doing First to Start My Maker Business

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I urge you to shop in person. • Postage for <3lbs is cost prohibitive to 20% of the US. • Algorithms hide the posts of those you follow • Scraping is out of control • Generative slop is killing the internet & environment • Tariffs are destroying international sales Shop in person. Interact.

New episode is up. Stepping away from shop talk this week to get into something bigger: getting your spouse aligned on money before starting a maker business. 1/5

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

Just putting this guy out there. He's a good friend. Not on Bluesky a lot. But his work is amazing. tedhsuart.com/pages/homepage #art #BskyArt #Tarot #IndieArtist #BSNM

Ted Hsu Illustrations

Explore a love story through the adventures of Emi in "Tarot of the Guiding Muse", a 78 card tarot deck.

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Spent the last three weeks testing Riverside's mobile app for live streaming and recording. Time for an honest breakdown. 1/5

I launched the community. community.themakerdad.com is live. Here's what almost broke me getting there. 1/5

Live tonight: Dialed In, this week looking at setting up Riverside for recording and streaming. If you've ever wondered how to actually get this running, come watch me figure it out live. 9pm EST on YouTube. Link below. www.youtube.com/@TheMakerDadO...

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Just askin’: does anyone have any Starter Packs for artists who don’t primarily do Magical/Fantasy Realism? I’d love to find some examples of digital artists who do things other than TTRPG/MTG/Game/Comic art. Like Symbolism and Expressionism, for example. Anything out there? #StarterPacks

So many woodworking YouTube videos do tend to blend together that this one encapsulates them all in a great way. youtu.be/LCyzfXZ8An4?si=pXeq8...

What Woodworking YouTube Sounds Like

Let me tell you everything you need to know about woodworking

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I’m taking @streamlabs.com desktop for a spin this month on the Ultra plan. So far the experience with using the macOS app is not great. Moving through settings is slow and everything feels sluggish. This is on a M2 pro with 32GB memory.

Continuing to let bad parenting rule the future generations. idlehands.zone/t/fallacy-of-i...

Fallacy of internet child bans

The British government will introduce a ban on social media access for all users under 16 years of age, set to take effect in 2027. UK prime minister Keir Starmer announced the plans on Monday, calling the move “the right step for Britain” and the best way to keep children safe online. I really don’t believe these bans are going to work. The kids are definitely going to be making workarounds faster than the supposed adults in the room will block. All this does is give bad parents yet anothe...

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This. A million times. This. As an aside, those eight scam emails Scalzi received that he mentions at the end used water we can’t get back and electricity that drives up all our rates. So using it demonstrably shows you clearly haven’t a clue, and don’t deserve my business.

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Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with scammers and frauds. Don't do it! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/p...

Am I the only old man yelling at clouds about the over abundance of 1-second jump cut edits in videos? idlehands.zone/t/one-second-j...

One Second Jump Cuts in Videos

I know I’m not the only person who has noticed this, watching many videos through YouTube and other networks. I’ve noticed for a few years that there is a growing abundance of jump cuts that are only one second long for each scene. The only thing I can think of is that the video was to be edited in this way for the short-attention span audience on TikTok or elsewhere. Maybe I’m just getting into the old man yells at clouds stage of life.

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Was really surprised in that Linux is getting some good outlooks from the LTT crew. It's not everyday Linus can escape the PopOS curse he seemed to be struck with at the beginning. idlehands.zone/t/results-of-t...

Results of the LTT Linux Challenge

I’m actually happy with what the LTT team did for going through the Linux experience challenge. They brought to light many points, both good and bad, that I think more normal Windows users should start to look deeper into the Linux ecosystem.

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Finally knocked out the garage cleanout that had been haunting my to-do list for over a month. 🧹 Tried something different with this one - no music, no voiceover, just the sounds of the work. A new experiment for Maker Dad. Full story on the blog 👇 themakerdad.com/roadblock-of...

Roadblock of Procrastination Conquered

On this page I've been battling that ever present ball and chain of procrastination in dealing with finishing the garage clean out. Something that shouldn't take more than a few hours to just go...

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I guess I caught the attention of the Only Fans bot accounts for some reason.

Minion Says Yippie

ALT: Minion Says Yippie

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Hey, MakerTube got an update! I use it in lieu of YouTube for all my video needs. Open Source, donation-based. I’m happy with it. I doesn’t generate income for me, but it also doesn’t steal my vids. I link all my speedpaints and livestreams from there. Worth checking out.

Coreyartus Imagery's Art Channel

This channel is a repository of the speed paints and livestreams of Corey Johnston, the artist behind Coreyartus Imagery. The videos shared here are mostly speed paints from Procreate, formatted in...

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Got a new piece listed on my website: “Redwood Secrets”, a print inspired by the local flora and fauna of Humboldt County in the actual Northern California. A Red-Legged Frog, Marbled Murrelet, Banana Slug, Yellow-eyed Ensatina, and Trillium included. Also a greeting card version!

Illustrated Redwood Secrets 11x17" Limited Edition Print

Support local art! Purchase Redwood Secrets 11x17" Limited Edition Print from illustrator Corey Johnston. Handmade in Eureka, CA.

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Issue #1 of Good Enough is live! 🪵 Procrastination, getting the garage workshop organized, a wall rack that changed everything, and a chat about imposter syndrome on the podcast. This newsletter is a work in progress, just like the rest of us. Read it here: themakerdad.com/good-enough-...

Good Enough #1 - Procrastination and Getting Started

🪵 From the Workshop — Starting to get down to documenting the journey of converting a section of our two-car garage into a workable woodshop. I know that it’s been quite a few weeks, longer than that,...

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There's a slow building of resentment against the social feed algorithm, which I think we're going to see a return to the pre-algo days, but with a slight twist in the next 5 years or so. idlehands.zone/t/echo-chamb...

Echo Chambers, and the Social Feed

Funny enough, the following video got fed to me on YouTube, while it does bring up a lot of great points about the algorithm. There are some others that I wish could have gotten a bit more attention, ...

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PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.