An interesting piece at The Atlantic on how link rot is affecting everything.

A neat insight into the early days of CSS from Eric Meyer. I first saw CSS in a technical writing class at umich (TC450 with Rod Johnson & Kara Heinrichs). Like Eric, I found it very exciting, but yeah, nothing actually worked. We’re getting there.

This was no idle threat. Lysenko’s powerbase was well known: “The whole country knows of the debate taking place between Vavilov and Lysenko,” one his cronies stood up and announced at a meeting. “Vavilov will have to change his ways, because Stalin said that things must not work the way Vavilov says but as Lysenko…

Extend your arm out until your elbow is straight, and hold your thumb and index finger about four inches apart. That’s a little wider than a credit card. A little less than half the width of a piece of notebook paper. Got it? Cool. Now read this. Now look back at your fingers. Go read…

William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of 1,700 words (or at least his plays are the first known printed use thereof). Jennie Alexander can be credited with just a few less – and we even left some of them in the third edition of „Make a Chair from a Tree“ (if their meanings could…

Some developers I’ve known seem to think that being good at concurrency makes them badass. Others seem to think that senior developers must be great at concurrency, and so they should be too. But what senior developers are good at is eliminating concurrency as much as possible by developing a simple, easy, consistent model to…

Originally posted on PETER FOLLANSBEE: JOINER’S NOTES: I decided today to assemble the undercarriage of the next Windsor chair in my pile of projects. My goal was (is?) to go through the process a number of times without great spans of time between efforts. We’ll see. Today turned bad even sooner than I thought.…

View this post on Instagram It's time to dive into those databases again! Saratoga Springs Public Library now offers access to Ancestry® Library Edition to our patrons AT HOME! Distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, this resource delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more from countries all…

Now I have my materials in hand.

I’ve been doing it this way for ages and it works quite well. Though recommended by the SAE, it usually pushes the mirrors right to their adjustment limit. Apparently the car makers don’t read the SAE journal.

In case you’re wondering why…

File this under #oddly-satisfying. Fun watching a master at work.

This may be the finest intro yet.

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Bosch sells a similar vacuum hose adapter for $50. I said screw that and instead spent $300 on a new 3D printer to design and print my own. from woodworking

Some excellent thoughts from Chris. When I design and build a piece of furniture, it does not belong to me any more than the birdsong of the warblers outside my shop door.  Since the start of my furniture career in the 1990s, I have never claimed ownership to a single design. The world is free…

One of the many ways you can judge a person’s woodworking experience is watching them at the bench. Beginners move a certain way – too fast, too slow or they look like me at a junior high dance. […] Grace at the Bench

This looks amazing

Andy takes the best photos. View this post on Instagram A quiet celebratory paddle, the fitting end to 2020's topsy-turvy school year! A post shared by Andy Retzloff (@aretzl) on Jun 17, 2020 at 4:26am PDT

View this post on Instagram Blending the chamfers on the heel of a drawer bottom plane. . . #planemaking #planemaker #toolmaker #moldingplanes #finaldetails #handtools #woodworking #handtoolwoodworking #chisel #handtoolthursday A post shared by Dan Schwank (@redrosereproductions) on Jun 12, 2020 at 9:04am PDT

Love Gil Scott-Heron https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqxU6PTRZk&feature=share https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOp507HJMA&feature=share

Back at the beginning of April, I started taking screenshots of the reports on covid19.healthdata.org. Here’s how things progressed:

The expression dates back to the early 19th century, used for the frisky, energetic movements of a horse when it has a belly full of oats. The earliest example recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary comes from the Boston Transcript in 1831: “Whether the pony felt his oats…he took a frightful canter.” Wall Street Journal

Remastered in HD. Love seeing the classic conditions with slow greens and natural fairways.

This is good advice. If we both reach our arms and we can touch, we’re too close.

He even says Detroit mostly right.

Alton Brown unfiltered is my favorite Alton Brown

I never knew what it was for. Now I do. Ever Wonder What That Extra Lace Hole on Your Gym Shoes Is For? We Found Out

So that’s what the world looked like before smartphones.

What the Dutch!? Someone invented a Cyclo-Knitter; a pedal-powered machine that weaves a scarf in the 5 minutes you are waiting for a train.pic.twitter.com/9Zod5C0QtM — Cycling Professor (@fietsprofessor) February 9, 2020

View this post on Instagram A little video we made for the Guide’s Edition Synik 30. Remember: we’re good at making bags, not necessarily videos! There’s a noteworthy interloper in the video who is responsible for the camera shakes you’ll see… some of you may remember him from when he visited the factory and was…