Michael Dales @mdales@mastodon.me.uk

A week in the shop: a mix of pushing towards my deadline for Liverpool Makefest, and re-evaluating some of my assumed truths about guitar building.

https://www.electricflapjack.com/blog/2022/6/27/a-week-in-the-shop

The flight routes around the airport south of us changed recently, and we now regularly hear a plane decelerating overhead as it turns in for approach.

We looked it up on flight radar, and it turns out they're all from Romania, so now my partner and I look up and say "Buna ziua!" (Romania for "hello!") to the sky when we hear it :)

A week in the shop: pondering what I want to communicate at Liverpool Makefest; getting Älgens fretboard ready for fretting; and I award myself a B for my first binding effort.

https://www.electricflapjack.com/blog/2022/6/19/a-week-in-the-shop

@virtualwolf those are awesome. Love the snow bases and the orange on white theme

Trying out my Chroma Cameras pinhole camera for the first time - also first time for pinhole and first time for medium format film - it'll all be fine, right?

Found this neat trick for formatting code for slides if you're on a mac, using "highlight" which is in homebrew.

Select the code you want in your slide, copy it to the clipboard and then:

pbpaste | highlight -O rtf --syntax=py -s dusk | pbcopy

Now you can paste your code with syntax highlighting.

Writing a presentation for the first time since... I forget. Seeing if I can remember how to communicate ideas.

Completed Mass Effect 1 again (in prep to finally play the rest of the series) and I’d forgotten how good the ending is, both in terms of story and gameplay.

Really is a nice little sci-fi story in that game - not high lit, but up there with good TV/film plots. A lot of changing what you thought you knew as it unfolds, assuming you take the time to explore.

A week in the shop: my Älgen build finally starts to become a guitar in my eyes, fun with 3D prints, and so so much sanding.

https://www.electricflapjack.com/blog/2022/6/12/a-week-in-the-shop

Why do cafes hide their opening hours on the "contact us" page? Why isn't it right there on the front page as one of the most useful bits of information about them?

Hmmm. Xcode and iPhone have fallen out, and refuse to launch my app. Do I reboot the Mac or the iPhone first?

@wjt More jolt cola for you then :D

@wjt What was it like? Did they still buy merch from Think Geek? Did they still hail the prophet Cmdr Taco? Did they tell you when the year of LotD would befall us?