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This weekend I mounted a Moxon vise to the end of ...
Completed the outdoor shoe rack, looks much nicer ...
Taking on a smaller, fun project: using a small sl...
Completed the hallway linen closet door. The top a...
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I’m trying Asahi Linux on an M1 Macbook Air ...
Cutting the mortises for the hinges to hang the cl...
This month, I’m marking four years with Fastmail a...
Working on a long, narrow door to cover a narrow c...
Breaking down a sheet of cherry plywood with hand ...
What in interesting project. The Library of Time: ...
This was a fun, quick project: I used offcuts from...
I completed my midcentury cherry cabinet, made wit...
One of the sliding doors are fit in the mid-centur...
Years ago, a friend gave me an old wooden filing c...
I’m planning (hoping) to build my own treadle lath...
I finished resawing the boards for one of the door...
Finished all the dovetail work for the mid-century...
McMaster-Carr is a treasure for finding hardware f...
Finally back to work in the shop. I decided to sta...
All is on hold this month as I was diagnosed with ...
Three corners completed, one to go, then on to the...
Milkweed is about to bloom in the mountains.
Sharpening some bits and want to share an interest...
Two corners done for my cabinet build, two to go. ...
My solution for transferring pins to tails on a 50...
I just looked at the iOS top charts and it struck ...
Frederick, Maryland, this morning before it gets t...
Making some wooden nails with scraps (with a dowel...
Gluing up the bottom of my cabinet project with my...
What an inspired idea: wood embroidery. www.thisis...
The hardest part of a workshop with no power tools...
Starting a new project: a cabinet with sliding doo...
Fly poison in bloom in the mountains, a native typ...
The forest is at peak fern this time of year. Ther...
This is a native species double feature from today...
A new red maple poking out, one of so many I saw o...
Here is some yellow star grass I came across in th...
Cleaning out the attic. Why do I still have this? ...
The mountain laurels are blooming early this year ...
Please consider leaving a federal register comment...
Good interview on Late Night Linux with Alex Moore...
This surely will be the year for the Philadelphia ...
Beautiful evening in the mountains near Frederick,...
Hiking in the Catoctin mountains after heavy rains...
Last week, I ended more than 30 years of public se...
Spring is the best time to hike in the mountains. ...
Did some hiking this evening and a few casts in a ...
The frogs are announcing that spring has arrived t...
How do we reconcile this: MIT-led study confirming...
I’m looking forward to the Murderbot adaptation, b...
Made a new shooting board to go with a new shootin...
Apple should insert a portrait of Kier hanging on ...
To activate Siri on only one Apple device while at...
Fascinating thread: community.openstreetmap.org/t/...
Burnside Bridge, Antietam National Battlefield, ea...
Random (minor) predictions for 2025
It feels like we are in a new era of browser choic...
Second try! Well, that was fun. kottke.org/24/12/0...
Making a huge 1920s cabinet small
On a very cold December morning, I’m thinking abou...
Western Maryland, last week. Been meaning to post ...
If you have an old iPad Smart Folio keyboard you n...
Looking forward to trying this out over the weeken...
iStat Menus 7 is a beautiful design refresh. bjang...
Interesting idea in the world of fly fishing. I do...
I came across this via Flowing Data. This is inspi...
As I wait for Copa America to start, I want to loo...
Annual high wheel race in Frederick, Maryland, is ...
2002 iMac converted to iPad Pro Stand
Woodworking bench converted to fly tying station t...
Mountain Laurel is in bloom.
Great essay from Noema. We Need To Rewild The Inte...
I’m working on a solution to convert my old ...
Sewing Machine Table Conversion, Part Two
Sewing Machine Table Conversion, Part One
Wenge Pencil Box
Utility room shelves complete.
Working on a project to build a couple of utility ...
Apple TV is developing quite a sci-fi portfolio. N...
While the concept of “forest bathing” ...
Moved from Goodreads / Audible to StoryGraph / Lib...
This is from 2019, but I only discovered it today:...
Rock Paper Pencil
Bought an old lamp from an antique store and it ha...
I’m back to woodworking after more than a ye...
I read Christopher Paolini’s “To Sleep in a Sea of...
I read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Memo...
Good interview with Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker o...
I read Stephen King’s Fairy Tale. Not a great nove...
Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, from the Mary...
Cider is an excellent Apple Music client on Linux....
Arrow Keys (for Keyboards Without Arrow Keys)
The First Digital Nation
Whatever happened to “No Man’s Sky&rdq...
Turkey Point light station, Maryland. This is one ...
On the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking
I read the first two books in the Monk and Robot s...
Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is quit...
I read Babel, by R.F. Kuang. Choose the audiobook:...
As a devotee of RSS, the rise of newsletters conti...
Well this is new to me and I love it: Music for Pr...
I upgraded to Fedora 37 and like it. I intend to w...
(Sign me up) When a woodworker buys a forest
In 2...
FMail2 for Fastmail
Remember Letterpress? I began a match in March tha...
This evening, I am perusing Take Control of Untang...
Tiny Tenkara for Tiny Streams
Affinity V2 universal license (no subscription) fo...
I experimented with night shots using my iPhone 13...
While I was fishing at Savage River, I came across...
Been a long while since I posted. I had the chance...
Adjustable Cat Feeder
My First Kumiko
Pencil Box
Herb Drying Rack
Studley Mallet
Beautiful brook trout caught (and then released) o...
Final Bench Build!
Bench Build, Phase Two
Shoe Horn with Hand Tools
Wading up a river while fly fishing offers up inte...
Bench Build, The Flattening
Strawberry moon over Frederick, Maryland.
Bench Build, Phase One
I am often amazed with the image quality that a ca...
200+ board feet of sapele and cherry and I’m ready...
Our sour cherry tree really produced this year.
Look at all of these nice cicadas a friend gave to...
Split Keyboard Base with Trackpad Rest
Kerfing Plane
Frame Saw
Small Display Box
Serving Tray
Where the Gunpowder tailwater begins — at Prettybo...
The mountain laurel is blooming in Gambrill State ...
Shaving Horse Build
Japanese Joinery Square Build
Duck Head Business Card Holder
Simple Ulu Handle
Sector Build
Linux on an iPad
Ergodox EZ and Arrow Keys
Sloyd Bench Hooks
Fly Rod/Reel Case Build
Making some Sloyd hooks today. My mistake was choo...
Finished my fly rod/reel box! I'll soon post a "ho...
Fly rod case coming together. I'll do the inside p...
Been out of the shop for awhile, so decided I bett...
Some ugly bass bugs to try out this weekend. #notf...
Shooting Board
Well, I'd say my first try at a mitered dovetail w...
Morning practice. Pin side of a mitered dovetail c...
Panel Gauge Build
Got the brass parts today from McMaster-Carr for t...
Finally getting around to learn how to sharpen my ...
Bow Saw
All finished with the bow saw. It's hickory and ko...
Made a lot of progress on the bow saw today - hope...
Fly Tying Box
Here's the project I recently finished: a custom f...
First corner complete on my fly tying box. Still d...
Dry fit shelf, just need to decide what to do with...
Using “Nanodrops” to Repair Corneas Could Ultimate...
Good round of tying today. A few prince nymphs, th...
Completed a new shelf: top and bottom shelves with...
My first sliding dovetail #handtoolschool [gallery...
Three new additions to the shop: #auriou rasps [ga...
Installed my new @benchcrafted plane stop today. R...
Finished the saw vise. It holds a saw tight, but h...
Making progress on a saw vise. The jaws are hard m...
I completed my new saw til. Here it is. #handtools...
Bear's Head Tooth
You are the product: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16...
The Living Earth iOS AP is underrated.
Setting up a new Synology NAS is no easy task. Ama...
Copying Unclutter Notes --> Bear App
And another take on subscription apps.: medium.com...
Good perspective on Ulysses decision: davidhewson....
The increasing number of subscription apps just me...
I paid for the Ulysses desktop and iOS apps a long...
I came across this sticker today. Got me thinking ...
Cheap Scrub Plane
I swear it looked good at THD, but this wide popla...
Lights are back on in the shop after more than a w...
Purchased Transmit and MarsEdit this week. First M...
I’ve started posting to my blog again after ...
Royal and Gray Wulff tied last night. Most interes...
New Ladle Handle
The little NOAA website I run (my day job) was the...
A decent-quality brick of pu-ehr tea used to cost ...
Moxon benchtop vise
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Frederick forest: Kublai Khan trail [gallery size=...
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Fargo: Minimalist Browser-Based Outliner
Hyperlapse: Creating Assets
Odds and Ends
The Hieroglyph Project
LibraryThing Responds to Amazon's GoodReads Purchase
Forecast
A Scourge of Starlings ...
Alan Watts, South Park style
I Won't Miss Google Reader
Building a Dry Stone Wall
The Greatest Challenge Humans Have Ever Faced
Future of Podcasts
On Apple
Memory Locations are Just Wires Turned Sideways in Time
Viewing Big History with ChronoZoom
Codecademy
Reminder: Delete Your Google History by March 1
iPhone Doesn't Have a Mute Switch
A Better iPad Stylus
New Life for a Broken Lamp
Spotified
Captioning Web Video
CSS Lint
British Library App for iPad
It's May!?
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