HMC Weekly Recap - 6/9

Abner Coimbre is our Handmade Cities founder. You may reach the author at abner@handmadecities.com

Dear Handmade folks,

Our server admin Mariano should be returning next week. In the meantime yours truly will enlighten you with the goings on at Handmade Cities~

The June Meetups Announced So Far

Seattle, Boston, London, and Denmark events are confirmed for June. (Seattle always happens on the last Saturday of every month.) However, Boston requires a different venue from their usual Boston Public Library. If you live there consider helping the meetup host with some advice!

Community member Scott is hosting Seattle’s second Zig Day next weekend! I heard the first one was very enjoyable: let’s show him some support and drop by.

Abner Wonders If You’re Harold Bloom

I wrote a blog post on the uncanny resemblance I seem to have with the late Yale professor, because I always sound like him when talking about AI usage. This essay is a funny reflection to anyone who can relate.

Practical to Self-Host Email?

As a rabid fan of the Linux Prepper podcast it still never occurred to me I could run my own mail server. However, user vincent.lee does exactly that and now I’m digesting the possibility. Perhaps we’ll invite Lee to the Homelab & Modding Party so he can show us how it’s done… I know I’ll need two-to-three months to feel more comfortable with this haha!

Pinball Convention: Is it Handmade?

User tstack made us aware of another community that (at first glance) appears completely unrelated to Handmade Cities. Allow me to quote Mr. T:

There is a growing community of homebrew pinball makers. There’s some really creative folks and the convention is a nice place to let people try out their games and to chat. I managed to get the ball stuck in this Fallout-themed game. I saw the builder looking through the logs later on and went to mention what happened. They said it was the first time it had crashed and were trying to figure out what was going on. The machine runs Ubuntu and they took off a panel to show some of the guts.

Visit our server to see pictures and links of homebrew pinball! I know I’ll be checking it out in my free time. What I’ve learned in life is we can always find Handmade devs in unlikely places.

AllenW’s Home Garden

Ever since I added a new #off-topic channel my favorite thing is the ongoing pictures of user AllenW’s garden. It started with him buying the soil for a garden bed… and now he’s moved on to hot composting new soil on the cheap. The latest pictures are starting to show the (literal?) fruit of his labor. Please don’t stop posting these :)

Have a lovely week and Mariano will hopefully greet you at the next recap!

Your community organizer,
Abner