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Re: How We Built Our Blog

blowery — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:46:51 -0000

RSS is a fickle fickle beast. You might want to peek at http://feedvalidator.org/ch....

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • Window motif, found in Chengdu, Sichuan province,...

blowery — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:39:38 -0000

And this one is actually based on a Chinese window lattice: https://www.flickr.com/phot...

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • Window motif, found in Chengdu, Sichuan province,...

blowery — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:38:03 -0000

A quilt my wife made, based on a Roman design: http://instagram.com/p/rm0W...

Looks familiar. :)

Re: rockbot develops the web

blowery — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:37:37 -0000

Functions in JavaScript are actually synchronous, but they can call functions that live in the host environment that queue up actions to take place asynchronously. It's a subtle distinction, but it does have one big consequence: it means that a function that invokes something that does work async cannot return the value being sought. For that you would need something like coroutines built into the language.

For the Async example to work, we'd have to change console.log to do it's work async.

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • Skinny saws?

blowery — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:20:44 -0000

Semi-related, Mark @ BadAxe recently took a poll on discontinuing the .015" plate dovetail saw (see https://www.facebook.com/Ba... ).

Have you ever seen this kind of warping from heat when using a Japanese saw? How thick are their plates generally? Maybe this is more of a factor from the plate being held by a rigid back? But then, some Japanese saws are backed as well, so...

Curious.

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • They say that planing end grain is one of the...

blowery — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:27:12 -0000

Softwood.

Re: A grit too far

blowery — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:18:33 -0000

And to be double clear, I own and use a 13K grit sigma power stone (and a strop). And I like it. I find it much more predictable than the strop.

Re: Jennifer Xu: RIP, Google Reader

blowery — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:40:37 -0000

Jennifer, I too will miss Reader, though less for the interface and more for the API it provided, which powered a wide range of other services.

I think you might be surprised how big that "select few" really is. Various services that either integrate with or replace Reader have suggested that the active user base is at least a couple million (http://allthingsd.com/20130... people.

One big issue, and an issue I have with The Old Reader, is that Google had no way to make money on the thing. Ads don't really work on feed readers.

Once upon a time, I was the UI lead for Bloglines, another web-based feed reader with a fairly large set of users. We too ran headlong into the free problem; we were losing money hand over foot and the powers that be didn't want to move to a model where we actually charged users for using the product.

As for the relative immaturity of the rest of the software market, I think that speaks as much to just how good Google Reader was. Having been there, it's very very difficult to compete with a very well done, free product.

That said, give the other products a bit of time. I know they're all reeling from the sudden influx of a large number of users, fleeing Google Reader. Scaling the software needed to run a feed reader is surprisingly difficult and most of these shops are fairly small operations. If you have problems, please take the time to send them an email and describe what you're seeing. I think you'll find them surprisingly receptive. They're not the stone front that Google was.

Ben Lowery, IOE, '99

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • “Nature forging a baby.” Guillaume de Lorris and...

blowery — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:56:15 -0000

All those poor discarded baby prototypes sitting in the corner...

No one puts Baby in a corner!

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • This video shows a Japanese woodworker fitting a...

blowery — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:10:37 -0000

Pushing the blade back over the work, tsk tsk. He's going to dull it. ;)

(I kid)

Re: giant Cypress: Japanese woodworking tool punk • Taylor Donsker doesn’t know you can’t use Japanese...

blowery — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:53:02 -0000

The chisels sucked the black right out of the walnut. This is why I don't use Japanese chisels.

Re: http://giantcypress.net/post/22645895105

blowery — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:35:33 -0000

The closest they set it is 0.1mm, which is ~ .004". Still, good times trying to get that kind of setting.

Re: Waste not, want not

blowery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:37:12 -0000

All those little black bits on the bench that look like sawdust are actually all of the teeth that broke off the saw while attempting to cut that dark dark pine. ;)

Re: A grit too far

blowery — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:55:21 -0000

A bit of a tangent, but if they're roughly equivalent in grit size, why bother with the waterstone? A strop and a 1LB bar of green compound will set you back around $20.

A 16K or 30K waterstone is ... a fair bit more than $20.

Re: ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’ available for pre-order

blowery — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:29:47 -0000

Same here, can't wait for the book. I did notice it's 480 pages! That's a lot of Schwarz.

Re: One thing Tech Valley lacks

blowery — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:09:49 -0000

I'd love a coworking space somewhere between albany and saratoga. Would be a wonderful place to work outside the house.

Re: Soda

blowery — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:16:15 -0000

The beer is a trap.