David Ascher
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Damn you, Tufte!
Heard in the office today. Once the bar is raised, it’s frustrating not to hit it.
Wood framing porn
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...
Notes on shed construction
A few resources I’m finding useful in building a shed:
MacFUSE and sshfs great even with no UI
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...
Visualizations
Impressive visualizations