Heard in the office today. Once the bar is raised, it’s frustrating not to hit it.

Bob Villa tours the McMillan Bloedel factory where they make Parallam, a neat glued laminate which super strong, but easier to work with than steel. Uses crappy wood too, which is great. See also these neat joists/rafters. I’m sure the glue will come back to haunt us, but it’s nice to see [...]

A few resources I’m finding useful in building a shed:

A neat kit from Lee Valley, which includes a detailed plan for a basic shed, including a parts list, and hardware that should make attaching the roof trusses easy (I hope!),

Also acquired at Lee Valley, a reprint of a classic book published by the US Department [...]

Gozer pointed me to a neat way to do development on an linux box from my mac, which is to use MacFUSE and the included sshfs program. It mounts the remote drives as a volume on my mac, and Komodo just edits is as if it’s a local file. Works great.
It would be [...]