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  1. Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
    Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Finished the next box
    [UPDATE: the carved box is SOLD. If anybody else wants one, send an email & I’ll put you on a list…] a follow-up to my previous post here. A friend of Drew’s Langsner’s (& mine) …
    By pfollansbee, 370 words
  2. sjhoward.co.uk
    Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Deal porters
    In the first half of the twentieth century, the area around Rotherhithe in London did a roaring trade in importing ‘deal’—large pieces of timber. In order to import it, it needed to be unloaded from …
    By sjhoward, 295 words
  3. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Jack-O-Lantern 2024
    My 2024 virtual jack-o-lantern was created in Nomad Sculpt, then rendered and animated in Blender. Seen here with my virtual jack-o-lanterns from 2022 and 2023. The post Jack-O-Lantern 2024 appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.
    By Andrew Crawford, 36 words
  4. Life, Technology and more…
    I'll know where I'm going, when I get there... By Mark Cathcart. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Whither archive.org books?
    don’t claim to know what will happen about the “Internet” archive of books. If you have not used them, why? While in general the scanning of old books, magazines, and manuals isn’t perfect and doesn’t …
    By Mark Cathcart, 1,282 words
  5. declad
    I am an architect with over twenty years experience working in different countries. I am British but I live in Helsinki. By Lewis Martin. 🇫🇮 More info

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    Arola Apartments Identical Twins
    Exterior -Image © Wellu Hämäläinen It’s often quite hard to make direct comparisons as to the sustainability of different buildings in the industry as costs, supply chains, and methods of construction to name just a …
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  6. He Can Jog
    A composer, improviser and instrumentalist of sorts. By Erik Schoster. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Log: Wednesday October 30th
    It's a pedalboard, I think. This might be one of those misguided "if I only had this thing" thoughts, but I think the setup for rain -- and my instrument generally -- would be at …
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  7. Oliver Andrich
    A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation. 🇩🇪 More info

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    Two weeks with uv
    Two weeks ago, I published my article UV – I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up …
    By Oliver, 472 words
  8. String-Or-Nothing
    Tangled Fiber Thoughts. By Kim Brody Salazar. 🇺🇸 More info

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    PERSISTING THROUGH BUSY WORK
    It has been a week that was. A couple of them in fact. But I’ve tried to maintain equipoise by keeping hands and mind occupied as much as possible. To that end I have several …
    By kbsalazar, 710 words
  9. Old mans thoughts and tales
    Mountain Rescue Specialist. Environmentalist. Spent 37 years with RAF Mountain Rescue and 3 years with a civilian Team. By heavywhalley.MBE. 🇬🇧 More info

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    1976 – North to South of Scotland a trip into the unknown.
    This is the story of my first Walk from North – South of Scotland in May 1976 21 days , 334 miles 62 Munros 31850 metres feet of ascent. Jim Morning, Paul Burns and myself …
    By heavywhalley.MBE, 1,362 words
  10. Anže's Blog
    Python, webdev, and surfing. By Anže Pečar. 🇸🇮 More info

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    Power Outages and Gunicorn PID files
    This week, my neighborhood had a few power outages. Bad news for the uptime of my self-hosted sites! 😅 After the power came back and my server started, Gunicorn services failed with the following error: …
    By Anže, 566 words
  11. This Week In The 90s
    Each week, we talk about a song that was in the UK Top 40 in the 1990s (and other stuff too). By Bernard O’Leary. 🇬🇧 More info

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    ‘Trouble’ and the Mysterious Third Member of Shampoo [August 29, 1994]
    Hey, welcome to This Week In The 90s where we tell stories about (or loosely connected to) songs that were in the UK charts exactly 30 years ago. This week, we’re talking about… Shampoo, ‘Trouble’ …
    By Bernard O'Leary, 2,738 words
  12. Netninja.com
    A web log of Brian's projects. By Brian Enigma. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Lowering Expectations, One Project at a Time
    I went to xoxo this year — I mean the real festival, not the fictional rave. This was the final year of the fest, and I have lots of feels around it. I don’t have …
    By Brian Enigma, 1,176 words
  13. Painted Eloquence
    An art history blog. By Adam Busiakiewicz. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today
    The rediscovery of Ralph Sheldon’s lost Portrait of King Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today 29th July 2024.
    By adamfineart, 24 words
  14. The Hiro Report
    Delightful apps, everyday gear, and other fun finds from the web straight to your inbox. 🇺🇸 More info

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    10NOV2024
    Happy Sunday, everyone! It’s been a week. We all have our own unique ways of handling stress, and here are a few of mine from the last several days—watching Harrison Ford deliver some of the …
    By Hiro, 558 words
  15. Ben James
    Thoughts on climate by Ben James. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Earth's Temperature and its Enemies
    What will affect the earth’s temperature the most in the next 10 years?Aerosols“Aerosols” is a fancy name for “tiny particles in the air”. Aerosols are the most potent climate lever in the world, because they …
    By Ben James, 1,084 words