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Everyone keeps telling you that you need to practice your fundamentals. What the hell does that mean, and how do you do it? This subreddit's all about concrete exercises that you can do to improve your fundamentals. We'll give you homework and we'll tell you where you're going right and wrong.

I enjoy making picture frames but always found it a pain to use tacks or staples to hold the picture in place. Plus tacks and staples are hard to remove when you want to change the picture. That’s why I developed this method for holding the picture, glass, matting, and backing board in the frame. I use 1-in.-diameter fender washers and #6 by 3/8-in. pan head screws. I drill the recess for the washer with a Forstner bit and make the recess deep enough so the washer will bear against the backing board to hold everything snug.

Glyphs 3 is a Mac font editor that puts you in control: quickly draw high-precision vectors, efficiently reuse shapes, and easily manage any number of letters, figures and symbols.

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The method is to get in the habit of starting everything immediately and chunking it out so you finish early. Doing this repeatedly trains your brain that work is like taking a nice rewarding warm bath rather than briefly touching a painful punishing hot stove. Over time your brain learns to enjoy work and its rewards more than it fears the pain of doing it. I call this method “work ethic psychological conditioning” (WEPC) because I didn’t have a name for it and that’s just what I came up with on the spot for this article. I elaborate on WEPC below, and give an important optimization to the method.

Learn how body doubling can help you bust through procrastination by improving motivation, mood, and productivity!

If you aren’t familiar, body doubling simply refers to the practice of having someone work alongside you.

People tend to use this technique for things they’ve been avoiding or procrastinating on — everything from paperwork, to folding clothes, to big work projects that feel overwhelming.

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Before Tiny Tim gave it his trademark twist, Nick Lucas’ 1929 version became the No. 1 song in America, spending ten weeks on the charts.

No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one person could use both their left and right hemispheres equally well.

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Shows how to take apart a Delta Soap Dispenser. Shows how to lubricate the plunger so it doesn't stick and how to re-assemble the dispenser.

This video is one of my first how to videos. Hope you find it helpful.

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I have covered this technique many times--in the Doorhangers DVD (NOW on YouTube for FREE!!!), in the Doorhanger's Handbook, now titled Installing & Hanging Doors (AMAZON), in Fine Homebuilding, in JLC magazine, at shows, on my website, etc. etc., but finally, here it is on YT--a technique every carpenter should be familiar with and CAREFUL when using!

Use these guidelines to select a JET collection component based on your user tasks and the features you wish to include. You can choose between the following components:

• List (oj-list-view, 2007.0.0)
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If you could bend plywood easily,
that would be a lot of fun, right?

By adding evenly spaced grooves,
plywood bends surprisingly well.

This time, I used that curve
to make a stool 👍

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know about - mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

A Unicode wireframe design tool where everything renders as box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups. Share as text.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers - ahrm/sioyek

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From Fatih Arslan:

I looked into how it was done earlier. If you want to see how type specimens looked across different periods, there are some great examples online. The 1882 Bruce’s New-York Type-Foundry specimen book on Archive.org is a beautiful old example of how foundries presented their typefaces to printers: