Author Archives: bturnip

Nerd Alert- grep for dashes

Setup: I often drop breadcrumbs for myself in programs that have lots of console output. Out of long habit, my breadcrumbs will look something like: ––>Warning: file xyz.txt not found, creating… This is great and typically helps me quickly find … Continue reading

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Laser Project: computer riser

I have a stack of laptops I use for work. I typically rotate the one I need to the top of the stack, plug in cables for the monitor and keyboard. The laptop stack sits on top of my regular … Continue reading

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Nerd Alert: the find and grep I love the most

This find the search pattern and outputs the file name and the line with found search pattern.

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Laser Project: number plate

RiverHaven needs a number plate, as its street name and number have been updated. This one was made with two layers of acrylic, painted and glued.

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Laser Sketches, 2023 week 6

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Laser: Monsters and Labels

A quick little exercise while getting familiar with Lightburn: Simple label prototype for the Leviathan House maker: There isn’t much color contrast in the cardboard and soap, but the cutouts might really pop when I have a bigger difference between … Continue reading

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Laser Project 01

I’m currently cutting scrap cardboard while I’m learning the basics of how my laser engraver operates. During our last freez-apocalypse, we had a pipe burst in the attic. The shutoff valve box at the street was full of frozen mud … Continue reading

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Hallo-wings

Leviathan Hall had big plans for Halloween this year. As it turned out, we tabled most of those. Decorating was out this year, as the Hall was getting a new roof installed. It was no easy task, and with a … Continue reading

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Sumbuck

Graydon turned us on to this album. [Sumbuck] has this blue vinyl and an mp3 album available at their store link. Leviathan Hall favorites from “Oh Sweet Cafe Racer” are “Tigersharks” and “Spin”.

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Nerd Alert: Setting up pylint as a Build Tool in Geany

Setup: I’m using the Geany IDE on an Ubuntu system. For this tip, I am just focusing on Python3 files. I can already automagically execute my scripts without leaving the Geany IDE with “Build Execute“, which I is already set … Continue reading

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