ultracrepidarian: a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise.
and by ‘Slumgullion’ I mean a cheap stew made by throwing anything handy into a pot with water and boiling it, an improvised dish which has had many other names… http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-slu2.htm so yeah, lots to share! In no particular order then. Forget silver spoons Different metals change the flavor of the food. More than you […]
Read MoreSo I’m working on a project at work where I want to rebuild my code whenever I save a source code file. Today I found the tool ‘entr’ and it’s a great thing to learn about. (I should totally send this to Julia Evans!) All I needed to do is run ls *.src | entr […]
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Way back in 2012 (or was it 2011?) I exchanged a few emails with Leo Padron about starting his own watch company. At the time, he was restoring vintage watches and had the urge to start his own brand. He’d found my “Design and make your own watch” page and I wrote a blog post […]
Read MoreThree long reads – or at least bookmark: EFF’s “Behind the One-way Mirror” – Damn. How you are tracked, in grim detail. Privacy International explains how the cops/feds/ICE extract everything from your phone. It’s out there – the Republicans tried Bluetooth beacons in signage and geofencing to target abortion locations. Takeaways? Install pi-hole at home, […]
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Check this out: In July of 2018 I paid $244 to a company called Adrionics for a chunk of PVC stuffed with electronics, the PA-II: It’s a sophisticated, lab-grade piece of hardware – twin laser-based light scattering particulate sensors, and it measures how much junk is in your air. In particular (a pun I am […]
Read MoreHow to repair a Seiko 7S26 Automatic wrist watch — Read on http://www.clockmaker.com.au/diy_seiko_7s26/ Fantastic! Free version of the timezone watch school.
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An random Sunday morning will find us at the Hillcrest farmers market. Been going for about 14 years now.
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