This is probably the case of a bodged migration from one CMS to another.

My blog suffered the same, and going through loads of old pages to check and fix them just isn't worth the effort.

> Why shouldn’t we be able to?

I have no idea why but my brain immediately interpreted this as a Scottish accent, like ‘shouldnae’. Weird.

It is a really nice concept. I had never heard of it. But then as GenX at young age I played with Fishertechnik [0] more than with Lego. Around since 1966 [1].

[0] https://www.fischertechnik.de/en

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik

Don't forget Erector Sets.

I spend untold hours failing to build a cable tramway between my mother's dresser and bed.

But at least now I'm an expert at pylon design!

> The moat created by seriously delighting your customers at a young age is large.

I wish Meccano would get its shit together. I can’t see anything I want on their limited site and there is so much cool stuff that could be made.

https://www.meccano.com/

Zometool rules!

I run workshops about the use of modular systems in facilitating non-expert participation in architecture. One I did (at the CAAD Futures Conference in 2023) was with Zometool. It was a blast and really successful.

In preparation I also got to interview the late great Steve Baer, inventor of the Zome (among many other things - seriously look him up, he's one of the most brilliant people of the past 100 years imo). It was a huge honor.

The book chapter the organizers were supposed to do about the conference workshops never materialized (hrmph), but I've done other little collaborative build projects since, so one day I'll document them all together.

yeah I dig it a fair bit. It's good for making jigs for carpenting geometric stuff. Those funny angles.

At least Lego‘s patent on the bricks expired. You can’t make mini figures but bricks shouldn’t be a problem

That’s the joy of 3d printing. You can adapt these to any adapter if you need it.

I was so confused recently, when I bought a toy car kit from some German brand which cost 25 euro and came with the pieces all joined together straight from the injection mold, so you had to twist them off one by one, and then the little injection spikes stabbed your fingers while you worked.

Bought an almost equivalent set from Lego (stab-free!) for 9 euro. How does that pricing make sense haha

Is this complaint just for the sake of complaining? You print out the pieces, they connect various toys together. The units could be light-years for all it matters.

There's this universal constant 2.54 you can use it to divide any value in inches and badabing you get the value in centimeters

up until very recently, the only units that made it even remotely "universal" was US customary units. Or, as Arduino Vs Everyone on youtube says: "units that have gone to the moon."

Now, i speak larger measurements in metric if i think the person i am talking to understands or doesn't care; but short measurements i still use "quarter inch" or "teenth" or "thou" pronounced like "wow", from the beginning of "thousandth".

I know km, liters - i drink at least 3 liters of liquid a day, if not 4, but i drink it 1 quart beverage receptacle at a time, odd how that fits!

is it really so hard to have a ruler with both measurements? I have a ruler that lets you convert from font point to two other measurement units to inches, for page layout.

I'm american, from the '80s, and we never used metric day-to-day.

the US will be US customary units basically forever. because we're an absolutely massive geography, and there's hundreds of thousands, if not millions of mile markers, speed limit signs, "distance to" signs, speed warning signs, gas stations, etc.

So 2026 is the year where i finally say: Please, please, shut up about this. No one cares.

Almost all (back then, I hear the clone quality is much higher now) were "compatible" but had little to no clutch power, a wall built with some of them would inevitably break at the clone bricks.

Mickey mouse is in the public domain, at last!

If you go to the homepage (or look at the banner) the project is shut down since 2015.

https://fffff.at/rip/

I was going to say something about the choice of acronym for the project, but, well, a couple people figured it out. :D

Do you mean leaving them on a hard floor so a parent can injure their heel stepping on one at night?