Month: June 2020

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Excerpt:

“During lockdown, I became (and am still increasingly becoming) emotionally attached to my sourdough starter. Like a Tamagotchi or a houseplant for a just-maturing millennial, my starter has become a practice run for looking after another living being.”

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Excerpt:

“Word Search Creator is free and open source (GNU GPLv2), there are no feature/time limits. Download v1.1. – Play on screen. – One click shuffle words. – Choose the directions of the words. – Set the size and shape of your word search. – Use Auto-enlarge to guarantee all words will fit.”

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Excerpt:

“Include line breaks (i.e. newlines, not HTML line breaks) between list items? The variables can additionally be augmented with filters. To use a filter, add a pipe character(|) followed by the name of the filter before the closing bracket in the variable, e.g. %[name|lower]% or %[number|zeropad]%.”

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Excerpt:

“At first glance, the workbench in “The Anarchist’s Workbench” appears to be almost identical to the bench I built in 2005, which has shown up in a number of magazines and books. It’s chunky, made from yellow pine and the workholding is a leg vise, planing stop and holdfasts.”

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Excerpt:

“Many knockdown workbenches suffer from unfortunate compromises. Inexpensive commercial benches that can be knocked down for shipping use skimpy hardware and thin components to reduce shipping weight. The result is that the bench never feels sturdy. Plus, assembly usually takes a good hour.”