Veritasium: Analog Computers (part 1)
Really good summary of the history of analog computers. Need to remember that all the cogs etc. have analog electronic analogs too which means this doesn't all have to be brass cogs...
Posts for 2021
The Beauty of Bézier Curves
Nice video explaining how Bézier curves work.
Curves and Surfaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modelled.
explainshell.com - match command-line arguments to their help text
This tool is amazing: Paste in a command line and it will parse the options and show the relevant help and man pages.
Mr Chickadee - Wedged Dovetail Oak Medicine Cabinet
These videos are great, well produced, calm, informative and inspiring.
Simon Willison - Instant serverless APIs, powered by SQLite - PyCon 2019
Very cool stuff.
Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
Cool talk by Simon Willison on collecting and mining personal data.
Trucks carrying wind turbine blades
This is epic and/or insane!
TabFS
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
Poaching - the daily threat to park rangers
The Thin Green Line foundation is well worth your support!
Planet Money: Fork the Government
Taiwan FTW!
How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History
This is some pretty impressive work!
Woodwork projects
Basic list of recent wood work projects I've been working on.