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Pelican and markdown styling cheat-sheet

A Pelican blog consists of: markdown text files containing content __ jinga2__ html template files defining the pages layout CSS style file that determine how the page elemen...

Cat Scan

The next step on from all the Material Cats was to make a cat on my 3D printer (an Ultimaker original). This required a 3D model of the cat. Years ago I played around with a home bui...

Material Cats

I had a friend who after some self-reflection decided his primary hobby wasn't wood work but was collecting wood working tools. This left him feeling much less guilty about the numbe...

The almost invisible kite

Polythene sheeting, the type you buy at a garden shop that's about 125 μm thick, is great for kite making. It comes in black and clear, the black is boring but the clear can be a bi...

Software for managing (e)books

Adding the links to the last post, I realised I'd dropped a lot of names of bits of software I use into the post. Here's a list with an explanation of what I do with each: Readerwar...