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Sandusky “Special” Grooving Plane I recently found a grooving plane, something I have been interested in for quite some time. I tossed this baby into my ultrasonic parts cleaner and, for my first time restoring something, I feel like it looks pretty good! Before After Sure, I could have left the “patina” on it, and I do that with most all of my other tools. Even though I use them all, I thought, “This was $14, I’ll try cleaning it!” Frankly, the iron was razor sharp when I purchased it and it did not even need to be tuned up in that regard. ...

Always keep learning This is just a reminder - to myself mostly, but really to anyone who happens across this page, to never stop assigning yourself time to learn something new. Or even just spend 15 minutes a day reading. It doesn’t matter what, but try to not doomscroll news. A few months ago I was asked about what I would miss if I knew I was “going away.” I thought a lot about it and honestly I said I would miss all the things I did not learn or look into. I have been a serial tinkerer type my entire life. I took that as a starting point to read, daily. ...

Shaarli - Managing bookmarks in a minimalist way TLDR; Here’s a link: https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli Here’s a link to the demo site they host: https://demo.shaarli.org Being someone with ADHD, I have found few things more frustrating than figuring out where I tossed that article I want to review later, or bookmark for a system. Rarely do I log in to a browser - never on my work machines, and never on my phone. I just don’t for some reason. ...

I like emulators… As many folks who like tech, I enjoy emulators. Most recently, I am working on one that does its best to emulate the Intel 8080 chip, mostly because I came across a Space Invaders ROM and wanted to play that. The choice to tinker with these things was also because I wanted/needed an “excuse” to write some “real-world” Rust code for a project. In my day-to-day life I write a lot of Java, big-data stuff, and other crap. However, being the only person on a team who knows a language (like Rust) is not a very production-friendly behavior. Enter: emulation. ...