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  1. Using a scanner for macro photography

    Although you wouldn’t guess it from the contents of this blog, my day job involves the design and production of products from fiber reinforced composites. A lot of my projects fall under non-disclosure agreements, so I cannot discuss them here.

    What I can do is share some of the methods I’ve developed over the years. One of those is using a desktop scanner to make close-ups.

  2. Checking links with linklint

    This website contains lots of external links. A fact of life is that hyperlinks are subject to change, so they need checking every now and then.

    In this how-to article I’ll cover how I did that for this website.

    date: 2015-08-05
    reading time: 2 min.
    category: howto
    tags: linklint
  3. Making a subset of a git repository

    Since I am in the process of making most of my programs available on github, I have been re-shuffling the some git repositories. Especially my collection of scripts (small programs for different purposes). Because some of those scripts are private, I don’t want to publish that repository as a whole.

    date: 2015-05-14
    reading time: 2 min.
    category: howto
    tags: git
  4. Making saline solution

    The standard recipe for saline solution is 9 grams of salt per liter of water.

    Since most people don’t …

    date: 2014-11-26
    reading time: 1 min.
    category: howto
    tags: saline
  5. Modifying a FreeBSD port

    Installing software on FreeBSD is made easier by the ports system; a collection of Makefiles and patches that contains instructions …


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