A thank-you for your smokehouse and kipper heritage volunteers: demonstrators and former curers, the people who look after the smokehouse, guides, oral history and archive, education, events, shop, café and tasting table, the trustees and the founders. Rows of golden kippers in the smoke, oak-blackened beams or a curer's hands at the tenterhooks as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, smoke and food safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your blacksmith and village forge heritage volunteers: a photo of the glowing hearth, a row of hammers and tongs on the rack or a smith's hands at the anvil as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your blacksmith and village forge heritage volunteers: smiths and demonstrators, the people who keep the forge working, guides, oral history and archive, education, events, shop and café, the trustees and the founders. The glowing hearth, hammers and tongs on the rack or a smith's hands at the anvil as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, fire and forge safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
CogDogBlog
• CogDog The Blog
Cooking With Imprecision (and a most amazing .wiki)
As a younger Alan, I could never forecast a future where I might be writing about enjoying cooking. That’s for other people! While I always haved loved food and eating it, strangely I am now at a point where the process, especially the inventiveness of it, is rather exciting. I mean to go from a […]
A thank-you for your fishing heritage museum volunteers: a photo of nets hung to dry in the net loft, a row of herring baskets or a mender's hands with a netting needle as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your fishing heritage museum volunteers: net menders and demonstrators, boat volunteers, guides, oral history and archive, education, events, shop and café, the trustees and the founders. Nets hung in the loft, a row of herring baskets or a mender's hands with a netting needle as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, harbour and boat safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your lamp and lighting museum volunteers: a photo of a row of brass oil lamps, a miner's safety lamp glowing in the dark room or a restorer's hands trimming a wick as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your lamp and lighting museum volunteers: demonstrators, restorers, guides, collections and archive, education, events, shop and café, the trustees and the founders. A row of brass oil lamps, a miner's safety lamp glowing in a dark room or a restorer's hands trimming a wick as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, flame and fuel safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your saddlery and harness heritage volunteers: a photo of a horse collar, a row of awls and round knives or a demonstrator's hands saddle-stitching as a jigsaw, with your note
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any saddlery or harness museum, saddler, harness maker, leather brand, livery company, g...
A thank-you for your brass band volunteers: a photo of polished cornets on the bandroom table, the band on the bandstand or the music librarian's shelves as a jigsaw, with your note
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any brass band, banding association, contest, music publisher, instrument maker or brand...
Is Proprietary Software Over?
Tl;dr someone used AI to reverse engineer and recreate open source alternatives to Adobe’s suite of software, written in Rust.
It’s interesting that the angle here is whether or not proprietary software is over.
I was just reading a post about how Linus Torvalds is embracing AI-assisted kernel development, and the author of that post was arguing that open source software is actually in danger.
But if this can be done with closed programs like Photoshop, what’s to stop anyone with a little ambition and a coding agent from doing it with every closed system?
↳ via eventuallymaking.io
A thank-you for your cider-making heritage volunteers: a photo of the old twin-screw press, a cheese of pomace in straw or a demonstrator's hands on the apple mill as a jigsaw, with your note
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any cider museum, cider farm, cidery, orchard trust, rural life museum, open-air museum,...
A thank-you for your dairy heritage volunteers: a photo of a butter churn in the old dairy, a row of milk churns on the stand or a demonstrator's hands at the cheese press as a jigsaw, with your note
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any dairy museum, creamery, farm museum, open-air museum, cheesemaker, dairy company, mi...
A thank-you for your sewing machine museum volunteers: a photo of a gold-decaled treadle machine, a drawer of bobbins and shuttles or a restorer's hands on the hand wheel as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your sewing machine museum volunteers: demonstrators, restorers and mechanics, workshop leaders, guides, collections and archive, education, shop and café, the trustees and the founders. Gold decals on a treadle machine, a drawer of bobbins and shuttles or a restorer's hands on the hand wheel as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, museum safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your hat museum and millinery heritage volunteers: a photo of a felt hood on the block, a row of wooden hat blocks or a milliner's hands on the trim as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your hat museum and millinery heritage volunteers: demonstrators, milliners and workshop leaders, guides, machine and boiler volunteers, collections and archive, education, shop and café, the trustees and the founders. A felt hood on the block, a row of wooden hat blocks or a milliner's hands on the trim as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, museum safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
SocialSpec, and why we need it
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how to build an alternative to today's social networks using technology that is not only free but also much simpler. Recent developments, such as Reddit's decision to shut down its RSS feeds, make this even more urgent. One project I ...
In 1897, London’s Lampposts Dispensed Hot Coffee, Tea, and “Fluid Beef”
In 1897, London’s Lampposts Dispensed Hot Coffee, Tea, and “Fluid Beef”
However much attention the Pluto Lamps attracted as a novelty, this was still the infancy of the modern vending machine, whose deficiencies had yet to be fully worked out. It proved impossible, at the time, to defeat the enterprising scoundrels who used round pieces of tin in place of genuine currency, and in any case, maintenance costs seem to have proven unexpectedly high. (To say nothing of the prospect of drinking out of an enamel cup on a chain, shared with the entire public, which surely put off even some Victorians.)
Don’t get your knickers in a twist… everyone will get their turn at the communal cup of Fluid Beef.
↳ via Open Culture
The Artist’s Notebook
• Paul Watson
Darker Days and the Hastings Weird
I mentioned back on the very first day of this year that my friend Scott Wood and I were planning on setting up something around the “Hastings Weird”:
There...
Small Offerings
• Hugh
As one in love with the world
The writer (and personal hero of mine) Will Campbell told a story in his memoir, Brother to a Dragonfly, about a time as a child in Jim Crow Mississippi when he and a bunch of (white) friends are playing and a black child walks down the road. Campbell and his friends begin chanting slurs at … Continue reading "As one in love with the world"
Metod Rybar – Personal Blog
• Metod Rybar
Eight Ring Routine
Wow.
A thank-you for your paper mill heritage volunteers: a photo of a sheet lifting from the vat, wet paper on the felts or a watermark held up to the light as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your paper mill heritage volunteers: vat demonstrators and couchers, guides, engine and water-wheel volunteers, collections and archive, education, shop, café and garden, the trustees and the founders. A sheet lifting from the vat, wet paper on the felts or a watermark held to the light as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, mill safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your bakehouse and bread-oven heritage volunteers: a photo of the oven door glowing, loaves on the peel or flour-dusted hands at the table as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for your bakehouse and bread-oven heritage volunteers: firers, bakers and demonstrators, counter and café volunteers, cleaners and maintenance, archive and oral history, education, the trustees and the founders. The oven door glowing, loaves on the peel or flour-dusted hands as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, oven safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your bell foundry museum volunteers: a photo of a bell on the tuning machine, a row of moulds in the casting shop or a guide's hand on the bronze as a jigsaw, with your note
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any bell foundry, bell foundry museum or trust, bell founder, bell hanger, church, cathe...