This is a genius idea - using a 3D printer to make giant versions of classic Lego sets.
iamcal.com Since May 2000
Giant Lego Jun 14th
May 23rd: MousePoint is a fun little progressive clicker game that subverts the actual clicking aspect. It's a pretty short play (about 6 minutes), but a lovely example of the genre.
Apr 16th: Ideally MySQL include this in a future version of mysqldump, but here's a neat little utility to split extended inserts into one row per line. This allows you to use extended inserts (for much faster importing of large tables) while having the ability to grep and diff rows easily.
Idea Instructions Apr 10th
Aluminium Knife Forging Apr 2nd
Turning a roll of aluminium foil into a knife, without any special tools
Watching the full 11 minutes is time well spent
Jan 31st: If you use Sublime text for coding or taking notes, then turning on autosave might be super useful. This ensures that my files get saved and synced to dropbox without me having to do anything, so I can always pick up where I left off on a different machine.
Seed Ship Jan 22nd
If you liked paperclips, a dark room, etc but you only want to spend 10-15m playing then, Seedship is definitely worth checking out. More games like this please!
Dec 18th: As a general fan of text encodings, this short article on weird encodings seems like it was written specifically for me. Learn more about EBCDIC, KOI-8 and Punycode.
Wifi Tracking on the Tube Dec 11th
Long time readers will be familiar with my obsession with public transport, specifically the London Underground.
Gizmodo's analysis of Tube wifi tracking data is fascinating - including some of the truly insane paths people have taken between between King's Cross and Waterloo
Dec 11th: For next time I'm putting a UI on top of a personal project, feather looks like a pretty viable alternative to font awesome.
About
This is the personal site of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO, ex Glitch engineer, ex Flickr architect, programmer, author and chronic complainer.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles. I also blog at World of Theorycraft and those links show up here too.
Links
» Twitter
» GitHub
(more, moar)
» Flickr Photos
» Last.fm
» Flengbot (Group Linklog)
» Shakefeed (Best of Mlkshk)
» Building Scalable Wesites (My book)
» My Conference Talks
WoW
Bees the Insane
110 Hunter
Unique Pets Collected: 732
Achievement Points: 19,890
Don't Play With That In The House (2017-12-25)
WoW's 13th Anniversary (2017-11-17)
Envision Invasion Eradication (2017-10-27)
A Frightening Friend (2017-10-21)
Protector of the Argussian Reach (2017-10-19)
Other Games
» Glitch: Bees!
» Starcraft: Bees #187
» Diablo 3: Bees #1517
» Steam: iamcal
» XBox Live: iamcal
» EVE: Demitra
» Weewar: iamcal
» Kingdom of Loathing: bees (id #29410)
