Design

The original SQLFluff logo was uneven and stale. Here’s the fresh clean look.

After building the desk, I needed a better way to manage cables and reclaim some desk space. Scaffolding poles, 3D printing, and a wooden backplane to the rescue.

Working on the kitchen table gets old quick. Nice desks are expensive to buy, and cheap desks aren’t inspiring. I built my own.

Mostly as a Christmas present, but partly as a pathfinder project for the desk, I built a slab wood bench for my in-laws.

I already feel less stressed.

PETG printing badly? Maybe you also need a dry box.

For around a year I’ve been working on SQLFluff, a SQL linter to keep up with the growing place of analytics code as a store of business definitions. This post isn’t about why I wrote it, but it is about how to start making it a bit more appealing.

The Croydon wood recycling centre is a great place, given everyone is locked down during the Covid19 pandemic, it’s been a great time to make progress on some home improvement. This project involved… a lot of sanding.

If one screw doesn’t give you the stiffness you want, then why not add some more?

Designing a new, smaller, compact direct drive extruder for the hypercube was hard.

We set out back in August to build a CNC Mini Mill using an old tumble drier motor. Here’s how the plan changed.

How hard can it be. I mean, building a dasktop CNC Mini Mill from scratch, without access to an existing mill or lathe. If nothing else I’ll learn something along the way…