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The handle for the dressing table/computer desk came on a spur of the moment. I definitely did not want to buy something in, and I didn’t want to turn them on the lathe, though that is always an option. I saw a couple of strips of offcuts on my benchtop left from the drawer support... Source

I don’t see the end of the end credits of movies as much as I used to because they get squashed into a tiny box on Netflix while it begs you to watch something else; and honestly (this is the real reason) I barely watch movies. However I remember the words they used to end with, and I just went and checked a relatively modern movie - Top Gun: Maverick …

looking down a typical residential street in the suburbs of london. i love taking pictures like this because the people are out of frame but close by. they form a community, whether by geography, race, class, or some other means of solidarity. plus there are sometimes cute cats in the window. I’ve been thinking about how trust functions in society. Working with community as a nonprofit is often an exercise …

WowHaus 1960s modernist railway signal box in Berlin, Germany 1960s modernist railway signal box in Berlin, Germany (image credit: Berlin First) Something very different on the market via one of our readers. This 1960s modernist railway signal box in Berlin, Germany. (image credit: Berlin First) I love this kind of industrial renovation project and have featured a UK signal box in the past. But it doesn’t quite look like this …

It’s weird to me that after I urged everyone not to disable form controls, a bunch of them decided that making them read-only was somehow better. But here we are. What’s in the box? Photo by Michael Heiss, no edits, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. HTML The readonly attribute is only allowed on text fields (<input> and <textarea>). The WHATWG HTML specification for devs argues that making other controls (buttons, checkboxen) read-only …

Starting today, you may use PHP 8.4 in your Vapor environments. To get started, simply specify "php-8.4:al2" as your preferred runtime in your "vapor.yml" configuration file.

I’ve been down in an audio plugin rabbit hole lately. More on that in a later blog post. But I just stumbled upon a set of free plugins that might be of interest to you, if you are doing voice recordings of any kind – be it a podcast, voice over, or, let’s say, video tutorials. There are, of course, many more free plugins for that use case. Again, I …

A poster promoting 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924).Is Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks for abundance?If so, I can't think of a better silent film to prepare one for the upcoming holiday than 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924), an epic adventure/fantasy starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr.I'll accompany a 100th anniversary screening of 'Thief' on Tuesday, Nov. 26 (two days prior to Turkey Day) at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Mass.More …

One of the (many) problems with old age is that things that were once considered an annoyance, eventually become big enough problems that they need to be fixed. Such a malady has finally caught up with me. For years I boasted that I have never had surgery. I reached the age of 66 back in […]

This is one of those topics which is just soooo much easier to demonstrate than to describe... but I've have five people ask me about Tree Peonies in the past few days, so - as I still haven't managed to get a Go-Pro sorted out - you will have to bear with my descriptions, instead of a quick five-minute video. Sorry about that!Right, Tree Peonies: these are actually small shrubs, …

It's been a long time since I last wrote about a hair care product on Bonkers, but my recent quest to find something to give my fine, limp hair a bit of a lift in the crown may be of interest to any other seekers of volume, oomph, or anything vaguely resembling an artfully tousled look.In recent years my hair had been steadily growing, and I rather liked it long. …

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When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user. Assumed audience: People interested in learning how the command lines tools on their computer work.This week’s Read the Manual is about id: a tool I only learned the existence of while researching last week’s entry on lsof! It gives you users’ user names, group names, and numeric IDs for a given user. This is …

I had high hopes for this one. I love the 1992 original, came away from this modern take’s playable prologue feeling positive about it all, and am generally predisposed to liking horror games in general. So I happily approached Alone in the Dark‘s 2024 remake in the spirit it was intended to be taken in “…reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre“, picked Edward Carnby (the …

Pnårp found there are no more bagels, because there were no more bagels. Even in the Bagel Nebula, there are no more bagels. But its name makes Pnårp hungry. Bagels.