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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is quite different depending on how you read. Looking at a Hokusai picture (via @soonleenz@wandering.shop) 📖
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An amazing infographic (created by @leahdriel@fediscience.org): A classification table of mother sauces and their common derivates 🍳
As a devotee of RSS, the rise of newsletters continues to mystify me. But I’ve adapted. Today, there are some newsletters I enjoy, but I’ve never liked inbox delivery. So this is the best thing I learned about this week: kill-the-newsletter.com 📖
Well this is new to me and I love it: Music for Programming 🎶
I upgraded to Fedora 37 and like it. I intend to write a longer post to explain why I run this in a VM on a Mac Studio. But perhaps the root of it is that it just makes me happy. That said, there’s more backstory to share that’s about the joy of reviving old laptops — a minor obsession that began with Puppy Linux in 2007.
Remember Letterpress? I began a match in March that is still underway. We have yet to use 3 letters on the board (Z,M,K). We are avoiding these tiles at all cost. I don’t know why. It was an unspoken, organic decision. We just hit 401 words. This match may not end. 🕹️
This evening, I am perusing Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. A good reference book to understand the evolution of USB and Thunderbolt. 📚
Affinity V2 universal license (no subscription) for $99 is looking pretty good to me, especially considering I bought V1 Affinity Photo in 2016 and Designer in 2015.
Where the Gunpowder tailwater begins — at Prettyboy Reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland — it’s ranked in the top 100 trout streams in the nation by Trout Unlimited and is a joy to fish (on weekdays when not crowded). Visited the reservoir dam today and it was just beautiful. The swallows own this place.
The mountain laurel is blooming in Gambrill State Park near Frederick, Maryland. And this is my first post on micro.blog after migrating my website.
Making some Sloyd hooks today. My mistake was choosing a scrap of hard Maple. I'm getting a workout. #handtoolschool
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Finished my fly rod/reel box! I'll soon post a "how it was made" article, for posterity.
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Fly rod case coming together. I'll do the inside parts next. #handtoolschool
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Been out of the shop for awhile, so decided I better start with some practice half blind dovetails before doing it on my real project.
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Well, I'd say my first try at a mitered dovetail was almost there, but not quite. The miter didn't close up well on one side. Really interesting joint though.
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Morning practice. Pin side of a mitered dovetail cut on some scrap wood. So far so good. #handtoolschool
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Made a lot of progress on the bow saw today - hope to finish it up tomorrow. My hands are cramping up from all the filing. Really enjoying my Auriou rasps, worth the $$ for sure
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Dry fit shelf, just need to decide what to do with the top because it's a bit bland. Looking for excuses to use my new veritas combo plane, so maybe a bead along the front?
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Using “Nanodrops” to Repair Corneas Could Ultimately Replace Glasses —Futurism
“New eye drops developed by researchers in Israel can improve both nearsightedness and farsightedness, the inventors claim.”
Installed my new @benchcrafted plane stop today. Really like it, worth the effort. #handtoolschool
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Finished the saw vise. It holds a saw tight, but haven't tested it with sharpening. Need to set up a station away from my workbench for that. #handtoolschool
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