Author: Duncan
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Garden Robins
With spring moving along, and slowly giving way to what should be summer (12C is not summer..), the local robins are showing their offspring the area. Yesterday, while I was in the garden, the young robin (seen on the compost bin) decided my shoulder was a good perch point as it flew from the compost […]
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Garden macro
While I’ve been unable to find my D750, I’ve at least found my D700, and my Nikkor 2.8 Micro lens. Can’t find my tripod quick release plate (it’s probably on the D750), but I’m still getting some reasonable results hand-held.
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Pandemic baking
With Ireland going into “don’t go anywhere” mode, and the supermarket shelves bare of flour, I went online looking for flour so that I can bake my own bread. Found a nice site, Kells, and picked up 10 kg of soda bread mix, and 12.5 kg of basic white flour. Should keep me going for […]
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Turning my first bowl
I’ve been following a bunch of YouTube channels (like Mike Waldt’s) for over a year now, watching people turn wood into household furniture, pens, bowls etc. It’s been very soothing, and rather interesting (then add channels like AvE, This Old Tony, and so on for mechanical gubbins), and I’ve been a bit keen on converting […]
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Bajan directions
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a tourist in possession of a bad road map must be in want of a Bajan to give directions. And Bajan directions are not some trite notion of how to get from A to B. They are a narrative of our lives. The other day I was in […]
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PlantUML, sequence diagrams
Today I learned that the diagram style that shows two or more vertical lines with actions going from line to line is called a sequence diagram, and it’s a UML thing (we never got in to UML when I was in college). Then I discovered PlantUML, which takes plain text input (like Graphviz dot files), […]
