me, 10 minutes ago: I've put a drop of water on this packing chips and it now has a big hole on it, so it's the biodegradable kind, and now I will put it into a suitable bag and it will go into the biodegradable waste collection right now.
my SO: right
me: I can do it
me, right now: is building a wall out of packing chips glued together with water.
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* tries to attach the box of packing chips to this post so that everybody can join in the fun :)
I think that was a mistake...
*hours later*
Look! I made a life size Spider-Man! He conveniently sticks to the wall! Yay!
:D
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I knew that my mother wasn't home, but I needed two carrots from her fridge.
So, as a #python programmer, I did the only reasonable thing: went there, got the carrots, and afterwards told her on xmpp.
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@Kermode yes, that's a custom translation with things like “Engage” on the “post” button.
Sadly friendica doesn't allow to set the language of a post to a different language than the one used in the interface (which is wrong, but I've never been bothered enough to find the time to open an issue over it O:-) )
In the last few days I've finished the boning channels on the *first* panel of my #AugustaStays and started those on the second one.
And then I've started making fabric covered buttons¹ and then buttonholes (handsewn, obviously) for the linen jacket I finished last summer, so that I will be able to wear it this autumn.
I will never finish the stays, right?
¹ the kind sewn around a washer, not the ones done with a kit
Elastic Neck Top
Posted on July 26, 2023
Since some time I’ve been thinking about making myself a top or a dress with a wide gathered neckline that can be work at different widths, including off-the-shoulders.
A few years ago I’ve been gifted a cut of nice, thin white fabric with a print of lines and lozenges that isn’t uniform along the fabric, but looks like it was designed for some specific garment, and it was waiting in my stash for a suitable pattern.
And a few days ago, during a Sunday lunch, there was an off-hand mention of a dress from the late 1970s which had an elastic in the neckline, so that it could be optionally worn off-the-shoulders.
And something snapped in place.
I had plans for that afternoon, but they were scrapped, and I started to draw, measure, cut rectangles of fabric, pin and measure again, cut more fabric.
two rectangular tubes for the sleeves laid so that they meet the body just at the corners, and a triangle (a square gusset folded on the diagonal) joins them to the body.
I decided on a pattern made of rectangles to be able to use as much fabric as possible, with the size of each rectangle based mostly on the various sections on the print of the fabric.
I’ve made the typical sleeves from a rectangle and a square gusset, and then attached them to the body just from the gusset to keep the neckline wide and low.
The part of the fabric with large vertical stripes had two different widths: I could have made the back narrower, but I decided to just keep a strip with narrower lines to one side.
The fabric also didn’t have a full second strip of lozenges, so I had to hem it halfway through it.
The casing for the elastic was pieced from various scraps, but at least I was able to match the lines on the center front and back, even if they are different. Not that it matters a lot, since it’s all hidden in the gathering, but I would have known.
And since I was working on something definitely modern, even if made out of squares and rectangles, of course I decided to hand-sew everything, mostly to be able to use quite small sewing allowances, since the fabric was pretty thin.
In my stash I had a piece of swimsuit elastic that feels nice, looks nice and makes a knot that doesn’t slip, so I used it. It’s a perfect match, except for the neon yellow colour, which I do like, but maybe is a bit too high visibility? I will see if the haberdasher has the same elastic in dark blue, but right now this will do.
It was a quick project anyway: by the end of the working week the top was finished; I think that on a sewing machine it would be easy to make it in a day.
And it can be worn off the shoulders! Which is something I will probably never do in public (and definitely not outdoors), but now if I wanted I could! :D
As usual, the pattern (for what pattern there is) and instructions are on my pattern website under a #FreeSoftWear license, and I’ve also added to the site a tip on how I use electrician fish tape to thread things through long casings
Filed under #thingsIProbablyShouldNotDo
Yanking the power cable out of the #soldering iron, because they ringed the doorbell, I'm waiting for a delivery, I don't trust the stability of the iron stand, and I can never remember whether I should use a short or a long press on the button to turn it off.
(it was a long press, the short press lowers the temperature)
Confy 0.7.0
Confy 0.7.0 has been released
This is the first release with a brand new UI written in Gtk4/libadwaita, using Blueprint for UI definition!
User interaction has been revisited, while being mostly similar to the previous version: gone is the tab switcher in headbar, now starred talks can be found in navbar. Gone is also the map view (for now, at least).
Adding new conferences from URL is now done via a nice dialog, and editing of user-added conferences is done directly in the conference list view. Which is now a window by it's own, used as an "open" dialog.
There are some new shortcuts, like the "<primay>-c" shortcuts to copy the current talk details as plain text in clipboard.
The talk search can now be filtered to match only starred talks and there are two search "mode": the global search, activated by the button over in the navigation header and by the '<primary>-f' shortcut, and the "current list" search, which search in current talk list for
day/room/track.
I'm sure I'm missing something and I'm sure I've missed more than something testing this, so please open tickets on the tracker (tickets can be opened also via email just sending a text/plain mail to ~fabrixxm/confy@todo.sr.ht or
u.fabrixxm.confy@todo.sr.ht)
There is also a fix from ~edwardbetts for events that are after UTC midnight. Thanks!
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I don't remember where I've found this, but to thread an elastic or ribbon through a long casing (1 – 2 m), a (clean) electrician fish tape is much easier and quick than the old method with a bodkin or safety pin.
There are pictures at the link (no alt text, sorry, but the text around them describe what is happening in them)
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Non ricordo dove ho trovato il suggerimento, ma per infilare dell'elastico in una coulisse lunga (1 – 2 metri) è molto più comodo e veloce usare un tiracavi da elettricista (pulito) piuttosto che l'ago apposta o la classica spilla da balia.
Nel link ci sono foto (senza alt-text, sorry, ma il testo attorno (in inglese) descrive cosa sto facendo nelle foto)
Ma voi dite che è un cattivo giorno per essere qui felice a leggere i messaggini che mi arrivano dal negozietto di #stilografiche sotto casa altrui in cui mi dicono che hanno impacchettato e spedito l'ordine che ho fatto ieri sera?
(tecnicamente non contiene stilografiche per me (ce ne sono un paio per mia madre), ma inchiostri, inchiostri, tanti colori di inchiostri!)
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I'm thinking of making a battery charger for my e-bike that can use my car's battery. The end-charge voltage of the e-bike battery is 42v, so you need a step-up that brings the 12 volts of the car battery to 42v with a current of 2-3 like that of the battery charger of the original e-bike.
I often run out of battery midday and not having the ability to recharge the battery with a 220V outlet is frustrating.
HAHA...SUB at Work..!
But is SUB or a FOOTREST?
Maybe a STOOL or a futuristic CHAIR?
You decide.... for me it is a fine piece of furniture. 😉
Ideal are 32v/5a switching one or alternatively a transformer (sec 5 A min.) with a rectifier bridge and a high capacity electrolytic (4.700 uF)/50V) placed in parallel at the output . Better use a 0.1 uF in parallel with electrolitic one.
Yes, I have one item of IKEA Part number 301.093.10 .
Intersting shape! hu.ikea-club.org/item/30109310…
Uhm...I'ts old, and I found it in garage. What I cando for recycle?
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Potrei aver comprato cose
#stilografiche #inchiostro
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5Ub-Z3r0
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to 5Ub-Z3r0 • •@5Ub-Z3r0 quello avrebbe avuto come CW consumismo estremo, mi risulta che economicamente sia una pratica discretamente impegnativa :D
semplice inchiostro da stilografiche, robetta da proletari
(beh, considerando quali stilografiche e quanto dura l'inchiostro, non è così assurdo pensare di usarle per risparmiare, se si deve scrivere molto, e non c'è neanche così tanto effetto teoria economica degli stivali di Vimes)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •E 6 ml di De Atramentis Document Valhalla sono stati prodotti.
È una miscela di 7 parti di bianco, 3 di ciano e 2 di magenta che si intona con alcuni completi che indosso frequentemente.
E adesso quasi quasi mi sto pentendo di non aver comprato una preppy in più anche per me, da dedicare a quell'inchiostro, ma al momento sto più che altro scrivendo coi pennini da intinzione, comunque.
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(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)
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in reply to (mapcar #'emacsomancer objs) • •@(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs) the cartridge looks the exact same format as the preppy fountain pen, so I'd assume that the platinum converter would fit.
I'm not sure whether refilling the converter from the tip would work (and I'd be afraid to risk contaminating the ink in the bottle, anyway), so I think that in this case refilling the cartridge with a syringe is probably more practical.
paradoxmo
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •refilling via ink bottle works fine for the highlighter Preppy, the feed is exactly the same as the fountain pen Preppy.
The normal Platinum converters are probably not worth it, you could get the CR-50 slide converter from AliExpress or eBay for about 2€.
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in reply to paradoxmo • • •Could also eye dropper the preppy
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •And 7 ml of De Atramentis Document Valhalla ink was made :D
(it's a mix of 7 parts white, 3 parts cyan, 2 parts magenta that matches the colour of some outfits I wear a lot)
And I'm somewhat regretting not buying another preppy for myself, to use with that shade, but right now I'm mostly using dip pens anyway.