#rubegoldberg — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rubegoldberg, aggregated by home.social.
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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480091
#HackerNews #cloudservices #doorbell #techinnovation #RubeGoldberg #smartdevices #DIYtechnology
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This is What It’s Like Projecting Gigantic 70mm IMAX Film for ‘The Odyssey’ https://petapixel.com/2026/07/15/this-is-what-its-like-projecting-gigantic-70mm-imax-film-for-the-odyssey/ #christophernolan #projectionst #rubegoldberg #projection #theodyssey #Features #imax70mm #theaters #imax
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Ah, yes, just what the world needed: a #filesystem that turns your storage into a Rube Goldberg machine 🤹♂️. Who wouldn’t want to "log-structure" their S3 buckets until they can't recognize them from a block of Swiss cheese 🧀? And let's not forget the dream of using #Docker to turn your cloud storage into a pretentious art installation that only runs in 17 easy steps! 🚀
https://www.zerofs.net/ #RubeGoldberg #cloudstorage #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, look, another masterclass in over-complicating simplicity! 🎉 The author boasts about a task queue on Erlang/OTP using #SQLite, but let's be real—it's "lightweight" like a sumo wrestler in a tutu. 🤡 Why bother with elegance when you can just duct-tape a Rube Goldberg machine? 🚀
https://github.com/entGriff/ezra #overcomplication #simplicity #ErlangOTP #RubeGoldberg #machine #HackerNews #ngated -
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: Steve Price posted a 15-minute, house-wide follow up to his popular 2018 #video called The Lemonade Machine 2. 🍋
Watch walking #wine racks, swinging #plants, bells, balls, and an #owl on a skateboard come together to create a chain reaction long take. ⚙️
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-lemonade-machine-2-an-inventive-rube-goldberg-long-take
#engineering #fruit #gravity #hotwheels #lego #physics #play #rubegoldberg #science #machines #toys #tksst
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: Steve Price posted a 15-minute, house-wide follow up to his popular 2018 #video called The Lemonade Machine 2. 🍋
Watch walking #wine racks, swinging #plants, bells, balls, and an #owl on a skateboard come together to create a chain reaction long take. ⚙️
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-lemonade-machine-2-an-inventive-rube-goldberg-long-take
#engineering #fruit #gravity #hotwheels #lego #physics #play #rubegoldberg #science #machines #toys #tksst
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🤦♂️ Ah yes, the age-old tale of the DIY coder who thinks they've outsmarted the fintech world with a Rube Goldberg machine of #cronjobs and Chrome DevTools. Spoiler alert: it breaks more often than a New Year's resolution. 💸🔧
https://driggsby.com/blog/claude-code-routine-watch-my-finances #DIYCoding #FintechFails #ChromeDevTools #RubeGoldberg #HackerNews #ngated -
Why #XOR when you can SUB? Because clearly introducing unnecessary operations is the key to #efficiency, right? 🤔🔨 Let's just keep adding more steps until our #codebase looks like a Rube Goldberg machine of pointless #complexity. 🙄💻
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247 #SUB #RubeGoldberg #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the almighty "botctl"—because clearly what we all need is a Rube Goldberg machine 🛠️ to manage our army of AI minions. With its thrilling terminal dashboard and "declarative configuration" (whatever that means), it's like having a conversation with HAL 9000 just to get a weather update 🌦️. Who knew orchestrating #Skynet could be this... mundane? 🤖
https://botctl.dev/ #botctl #RubeGoldberg #AIminions #HAL9000 #HackerNews #ngated -
🖍️💻 ALERT: Keith has #Opinions about colors, because apparently, #CSS can't handle "Too Much Color" without imploding into a rainbow puddle of failure. 🚨🤦♂️ The real masterpiece here is his #minifier test suite—because what the world really needed was a Rube Goldberg machine for proving that "precise enough" still means completely unnecessary. 🎨🤔
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/ #Color #RubeGoldberg #DesignFails #HackerNews #ngated -
… of this was to pay out... $34. And even better, after I confirmed that, yes, my address was the one on file that they had used to send me a letter, they said that the check would be sent out in... 3-6 weeks.
Ahh, Rube Goldberg devices are so amusing, aren't they?
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… did mention this discrepancy to the representative, who was dutifully concerned and promised to bring it up with someone.
After proving myself to both silicon- and carbon-based individuals, I finally got to the point of the letter. Apparently they had tried to pay out the remainder of a 401k for a company I had left *five years ago*. A 401k that I had rolled over to my new company. But there were some dregs, and they needed to balance their books. So all …
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… stream of invective that is produced by programmers and IT personnel. That's different.
So anyway, after proving my identity to the AI and then convincing it that, yes, I really did need to speak to a representative like the letter told me, I was directed to a person. And this very nice person had to verify my identity *again* - by sending me a code. I was highly amused. At least this time the notice with the code didn't say not to give it to anyone. I …
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… someone was trying to scam me and steal my money. At best it was bad design. But I figured *I* called *them*, the number was in a certified letter from a financial institution that they made me *sign* for, and "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Stupidity and incompetence seemed to be the theme of the day, so I rattled off the code.
By the way, I *hate* talking to computers. Unless, you know, it's the normal …
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… representative.
So I called them. I of course got an AI agent. The AI agent told me it needed to confirm my identity by sending me a code. The message with the code said "Do not give this code to ANYONE! Representatives will NEVER ask for this code! Please, we beg you, be smart about this and DON'T give it to someone else! If you do it means you're being scammed!" (I may be paraphrasing here.) Now, this did actually stop me for a bit. At worst, …
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… about it, but they didn't have it and said I had to go pick it up at the post office. Being lazy, I didn't. Friday, my doorbell rang and the mail carrier delivered the letter after getting my signature.
The letter was from a financial company, telling me that they had the wrong address for me in their records. This letter, delivered to my house, at my address, was telling me they had the wrong address. And that I needed to call them and ask to speak to a …
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It all started with a "sorry we missed you" note from the Post Office on Tuesday - despite the fact that I was home that day. There was a letter that required a signature for delivery. The note had my name on it, it was in my mailbox, but the street number was off by one. Minor, funny, and it set the mood for the entire saga.
Anyway, I went online to schedule redelivery. They said it would be redelivered Thursday. I saw the mail carrier and asked them …
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CW: CW: ARM kvetching
lol my ADHD brain is a #RubeGoldberg [device], though. XD
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Ah, JuiceFS! Because what's better than turning your POSIX file system into a Rube Goldberg machine powered by the dynamic duo of #Redis and S3? 🤖🔧 Clearly, the only thing more convoluted would be creating a file system out of spaghetti and meatballs! 🍝🔍
https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs #JuiceFS #S3 #fileSystem #techHumor #RubeGoldberg #HackerNews #ngated -
🎮 Oh joy, yet another game that's convinced it's the #Inception of #puzzles, where a tap on the screen supposedly sets off a Rube Goldberg machine of 'strategic' second and third-order effects. 🧠 Because clearly, what everyone craves in their "daily" #gaming fix is a Sudoku that pretends it's quantum mechanics. 🤡
https://ripplegame.app/ #RubeGoldberg #quantummechanics #satire #HackerNews #ngated -
🍷 Tedium's "How to Assemble a #Zine Using a Rube Goldberg Machine" features a Linux-Windows-Affinity cocktail that sounds like the world's most tedious way to generate a #PDF. 🍹 Ernie Smith bravely ventures where no one really needed to go, proving once again that the most efficient way to do anything is as convolutedly as possible. 🙃
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/? #Tedium #RubeGoldberg #Linux #Windows #HackerNews #ngated -
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Ah, yet another ✨ groundbreaking ✨ attempt to turn the humble #Markdown into the Swiss Army knife of #UI building, because why not reinvent the wheel with more complexity? 🛠️ But hey, who needs simplicity when you can have a markdown-powered Rube Goldberg machine right in your browser? 😂 #InnovationAtItsFinest
https://markdown-ui.com/ #Innovation #Complexity #RubeGoldberg #Browser #HackerNews #ngated -
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