[joezydeco]

Soldering tip: tack a pin down on opposing corners of the chip before attacking the rest.

[polyfractal]

Ah, yeah, I can see how that would have helped tremendously. Thanks for the tip! :)

I cringed when I saw this at the top of HN because I knew the shame that is my soldering skill would be seen by a few hundred people :)

[dikaiosune]

If you have analytics on your blog you'll probably find a bit more than a few hundred. Front page #1 stories often accumulate thousands of views an hour.

[joezydeco]

Been there done that myself. My early works are masterpieces of kapton-tape strain relief because the joints were so bad.

[tomcam]

Painfully obvious – and I never thought of it myself! Thank you