Richard Moore

How to align a drill press using only plasticine and a pin...

If you know, you know...

@jetbrains this simple feature request has been live with you for over 16 years! Do you really care that little for your paying customers? youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RSRP-783…

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

👀 youtu.be/-Vog7xU2je4

Have you ever seen a micrometer with a helical scale that can read metric and imperial both at the same time!? 👇

I bought a pillar drill today off facebook marketplace. It was made in 1973 so 50 years old. It's a really unusual design with a rotating head I decided to scrape the table as it had a uniform coat of rust on it. More to follow...

.Net programmer? Be aware that .Net DateTime != TSQL DateTime If you're going to use timestamps, you need to use TSQL DateTime2 #NanoSecondsMatter

@bbcweather It's a bit nippy out (as it often is in June) so best make the UK ice coloured 🤦‍♂️

Where has the summer heat gone? It's not just chilly here. This temperature anomaly chart shows cooler air over much of Europe. Only the south-east stands out as hotter than normal, with 39C forecast for Cyprus.

do exactly that. Here's an example of how it currently works, intuitive it is not. youtu.be/PIHEIsyfFEY?si…

that you can "Move" the hidden Window by right clicking its thumbnail in the taskbar and selecting "Move". It's clunky, involves all kinds of mouse acrobatics and is 'orrible. So if I was in charge of UX at Microsoft I'd have them rename it "Front and Center" and it'd...

How I would fix a bad UI design in Windows... If you have ever lost a Window off the screen in Windows because you switched off one of your monitors and Windows opened the application on the powered down monitor, you might not know...

@fireship_dev What do you do after lunch?

To call yourself a “full-stack” developer in 2024, you must be able to: - Build frontends - Build backends - Provision cloud infrastructure - Handle UX in Figma - Maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines - Create 3D art in Blender - Manage projects with Scrum - Attend daily standup meetings without leaving the zone - Make YouTube videos - Train transformer models from scratch - Code live on Twitch for 14 hours straight - Run a side hustle with at least 10K MRR - Tweet about cold plunges and fasting - Beat the stock market with algotrading - Deploy shit with Kubernetes - Achieve the Ballmer Peak daily - Invoke syscalls on Linux - Optimize for ARM-based CPU architectures - Publish research papers on quantum algorithms - Maintain mental health while doing all of the above Did I miss any?

@Classicbritcom @DeanoRifles777 Ted can't hear you!

@DeanoRifles777 Ho-De-Ho

Morning campers!!!… “Hi-De-Hi”…. 🏕️💃 🏕️🕺🏻🏕️ I’ve just checked and it’s defo pub/beer garden weather today with a lightweight jacket!… 😄👍🏻 Fred Perry with a Baracuta I’m thinking! ☀️🍺😎☀️🍺😎 Pubs open at 11… Have a blinder everyone!! 🤩🍺🤩🍺🤩🍺🤩🍺🤩

Why is it that on Facebook marketplace, I tap on a sewing machine by accident just the once, then say don't show me sewing machines, my feed is full of sewing machines?

@lauriewired Thunderbolt 5 - still copies photos over at 1.2Mb/s

USB-C is gonna be awesome they said. It's gonna be compatible with everything. Oh wait.

I made an animated nightingale for Madame Tussauds... youtu.be/k6nSt2k5wRM

@Classicbritcom His Dicky Ticker finally stopped ticking 💓

Remembering the late Actor, Kenneth Connor MBE (6 June 1918 – 28 November 1993)

Internal and external screw cutting - making a brass fitting on the mini lathe. youtu.be/YSXo2eKQJzE

I used a wood plane to help me flatten my metal lathe bed...