[sellmesoap]

I appreciate the article, it's cool to see such small differences across all those settings! It says they learned to solder, if you see solder joins that look like those in the first picture, keep learning! Those are some dry joins, which can easily lead to failure, or intermittant signal loss. Soldering can be a touchy sport!

[hoechst]

OP here, thank you for the feedback. I will keep it in mind for the next time I'm soldering something.

[sellmesoap]

The main trick is getting the pad/component hot enough that you're adding solder to them, not to the iron. The end result should look like the solder is a smooth fillet, not jaggy/crystalized bumps. Now to tweak my nixos gaming rig with your settings thanks to your research!