#rubegoldberg — Public Fediverse posts

🤦‍♂️ 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

🤦‍♂️ 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

🤦‍♂️ 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

🤦‍♂️ 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

🤦‍♂️ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

https://www.caseyliss.com/2025/8/15/a-rube-goldberg-camera

#HackerNews #Turning #a #Decommissioned #iPhone #into #a #UniFi #Protect #Camera #UniFiProtect #iPhoneReuse #DIYTech #HomeAutomation #RubeGoldberg

Ah yes, the holy grail of tech solutions: using SNS+SQS to reinvent #MCP, because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like resuscitating a relic with a 12-step AWS Rube Goldberg machine. 🤖🛠️ Meanwhile, #GitHub flexes their #AI sidekick hoping you'll ignore the fact that half the time it's like teaching a goldfish to type. 🐠💻
https://github.com/bh-rat/asyncmcp #SNS #SQS #RubeGoldberg #HackerNews #ngated

Rocznica urodzin Rube’a Goldberga (1883–1970)! Inżynier, rysownik, satyryk – twórca słynnych rysunków pokazujących niezwykle złożone maszyny wykonujące proste czynności. Dziś jego nazwisko to synonim kreatywnej przesady! (fot. Wikipedia) #RubeGoldberg #satyra #technika #historiakomiksu

Another day, another 🥪 of #tech #hysteria wrapped in a desperate attempt to make #Firefox relevant again. Instead of waiting for #WebUSB, let's just build an entire Rube Goldberg machine to reinvent the wheel! As if GitHub isn't already bursting with enough "ingenious" hacks nobody asked for. 🙄
https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb #RubeGoldberg #IngeniousHacks #HackerNews #ngated

📟🤓 Intel's Pentium: breaking news from 1993—apparently, multiplying by three was such a Herculean task it required a Rube Goldberg machine of transistors. 🙄 Meanwhile, Ken Shirriffs continues his thrilling quest to make us all #nostalgia for obsolete circuitry. 🤔🔍
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html #IntelPentium #RubeGoldberg #ObsoleteTech #TransistorTales #HackerNews #ngated

The Incredible Machine is a groundbreaking puzzle game from 1993 that lets you build Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Released by Sierra On-Line, it offers creative freedom in solving tasks and received praise for its innovative gameplay. The music, composed by Christopher Stevens, perfectly fits the game's playful tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxenRZWWDQU

#TheIncredibleMachine #RetroGaming #PuzzleGames #ClassicGames #RubeGoldberg

Who's up for making a Rube Goldberg machine?
https://www.instructables.com/contest/sillysolutions24
#Instructables #InstructablesContests #RubeGoldberg

Newly Completed Overly-Complex Clock Synchronizes Multiple Mechanisms https://hackaday.com/2024/07/11/newly-completed-overly-complex-clock-synchronizes-multiple-mechanisms/ #rubegoldberg #clockhacks #complexity #marblerun #dominoes #lasercut

Newly Completed Overly-Complex Clock Synchronizes Multiple Mechanisms - Some time ago [Kelton] was working on a clock inspired by Rube Goldberg contraptio... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/11/newly-completed-overly-complex-clock-synchronizes-multiple-mechanisms/ #rubegoldberg #clockhacks #complexity #marblerun #dominoes #lasercut

Intentionally Overly-Complex Clock is Off to a Good Start https://hackaday.com/2024/06/03/intentionally-overly-complex-clock-is-off-to-a-good-start/ #rubegoldberg #clockhacks #marblerun #lasercut #acrylic #clock

Intentionally Overly-Complex Clock is Off to a Good Start - [Kelton] from Build Some Stuff decided to create a clock that not only had kinetic... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/03/intentionally-overly-complex-clock-is-off-to-a-good-start/ #rubegoldberg #clockhacks #marblerun #lasercut #acrylic #clock

Now I'm wondering: is there a collection of contraptions and levels built for @principia to play with it around like in #TheIncredibleMachine? Sort of a #RubeGoldbergMachine, but with #DIY set to make more such levels, you know... :ablobcatwave:

Post inspired by https://mastodon.social/@256/112417780225247409 and reminiscing about mid-00s #RubeGoldberg type videogame that I can't remember the name of.

#sandbox #PhysicsSandbox #PhysicsSim #PhysicsSimulation #Principia #the_incredible_machine #the_incredible_machine_2 #LevelEditor

The latest XKCD comic lets you build a Rube Goldberg machine in your browser.

https://xkcd.com/2916

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

#xkcd #machine #RubeGoldberg #RubeGoldbergMachine #TheIncredibleMachine

I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)

My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.

Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!

I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)

My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.

Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!

I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)

My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.

Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!

I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)

My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.

Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!

I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)

My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.

Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!

In 2021 we were invited to participate in a Hubraum/Deutsche Telekom program to kickstart some AR content for the Nreal Light (now Xreal). This is me presenting "Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game" and how we're adapting it for AR/VR.
#gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday #RubeGoldberg #RubeWorks #RubeWorksVR

https://youtu.be/Ry8IzeNrs9o

#Datreveno #RubeGoldberg #Humuro

Je ĉi dato en 1883 naskiĝis Rube Goldberg, kartunisto, kies
desegnaĵoj pri trokomplikaj maŝinoj por simplaj taskoj ĝojigis multon trans la mondo. Sed lia ĉefa laboro konsistis el politika komento per kartunoj. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rube_Goldberg%27s_%22Self-Operating_Napkin%22_(cropped).gif

Any #RubeGoldberg fans out there? We created a game 9 years ago based on Rube's crazy chain reaction machine comics. Today, we released level 1 of the game that you can play for free on your desktop computer.

#RubeWorks #Education #STEAM #STEM #EdTech #Physics #Humor

Check it out here:
https://www.electriceggplant.com/rubeworks/

@skye You could buy one of these shaving thing-a-ma-jigs, replace the suction cups with grommets, and then either get two cheap tripods to attach the grommets to, or put eye-hooks on your ceiling and dangle down lines to tie to the grommets. Simple! #Overcomplicated #RubeGoldberg -ian.

Come sorge magnifica, prima di crollare nella polvere, la torre dell’artista delle tessere di pino

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=37216

#costruzioni #arte #scultura #architettura #creativi #reazioni a catena #rubegoldberg #demolizione #comunicazione #italia #novara #residenze #edifici #torri #cupole #colonnati #equilibrio #precisione #personaggi,

#Introductions / #introduction
Hi all, I’m relatively new here (actually created this account a while back but now have a good reason to reactivate it!). I’m DavidBFox on the birdsite, early #LucasfilmGames/#LucasArts member. Most recently, lead game programmer on #ReturnToMonkeyIsland.

Previous games I've worked on in reverse order:
#ThimbleweedPark
#RubeWorks: The Official #RubeGoldberg Invention Game
‪#IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade‬
#ZakMcKracken
#ManiacMansion
#Labyrinth
#RescueOnFractalus

Rube Goldberg’s Least Complicated Invention Was His Cartooning Career - The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/02/rube-goldbergs-least-complicated-invention-was-his-cartooning-career/ #rubegoldbergmachine #profilesinscience #hackadaycolumns #rubegoldberg #originalart #engineering #biography #mousetrap #featured #cartoons

#JosephHerscher made another #RubeGoldbergMachine, this time to help him enjoy #dinner while working at his laptop: https://youtu.be/rM8rJF5fhVs

#JosephsMachines #RubeGoldberg #RubeGoldbergDevice #RubeGoldbergMachines

One of my teachers turned me on to this guy's particularly Rube Goldberg brand of weirdness.

https://youtu.be/Yqix5KkusbE

#physicalcomedy
#rubegoldberg