Engineering at Home - using readily available and affordable tools and materials to make interesting things and to generally have some fun in the home workshop.
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I bought a pillar drill today off facebook marketplace. It was made in 1973 so 50 years old. It's a really unusual design with a rotating head I decided to scrape the table as it had a uniform coat of rust on it. More to follow...
.Net programmer? Be aware that .Net DateTime != TSQL DateTime
If you're going to use timestamps, you need to use TSQL DateTime2
#NanoSecondsMatter
How I would fix a bad UI design in Windows...
If you have ever lost a Window off the screen in Windows because you switched off one of your monitors and Windows opened the application on the powered down monitor, you might not know...
that you can "Move" the hidden Window by right clicking its thumbnail in the taskbar and selecting "Move". It's clunky, involves all kinds of mouse acrobatics and is 'orrible. So if I was in charge of UX at Microsoft I'd have them rename it "Front and Center" and it'd...
do exactly that.
Here's an example of how it currently works, intuitive it is not.
youtu.be/PIHEIsyfFEY?si=j1GA…
Why is it that on Facebook marketplace, I tap on a sewing machine by accident just the once, then say don't show me sewing machines, my feed is full of sewing machines?
Internal and external screw cutting - making a brass fitting on the mini lathe.
youtu.be/YSXo2eKQJzE
Old engineering proverb: "Though the path to completion is fraught with uncertainty, a Dremel will surely be needed.".
Mini lather saddle gib fix part V video coming soon 👍
Some more work done this evening on my machinists chest project. All done with hand woodworking tools -powered by Tea. #woodworking #joinery #tools
LINQ is one of my favourite features of .Net. The ability to create a dictionary from a collection with a single logical line of code...
#CsharpDotNet #DotNetDevelopment #linq
One of my favourite aspects of C# is to incorporate the FP notion that functions are first class citizens. So powerful!
How to make a degaussing machine out of an old food processor. #MakeDoAndMend
youtu.be/6xbrTbjWL3U