Richard Moore

Engineering at Home - using readily available and affordable tools and materials to make interesting things and to generally have some fun in the home workshop.

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

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If you know, you know...

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@jetbrains this simple feature request has been live with you for over 16 years! Do you really care that little for your paying customers?
https://t.co/bPb6zUfHqk

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Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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https://t.co/k4oaWuGu6m

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

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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...

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.Net programmer? Be aware that .Net DateTime != TSQL DateTime

If you're going to use timestamps, you need to use TSQL DateTime2

#NanoSecondsMatter

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

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do exactly that.

Here's an example of how it currently works, intuitive it is not.

https://t.co/0YWcDuyYKf

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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...

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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...

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@fireship_dev What do you do after lunch?

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@Classicbritcom @DeanoRifles777 Ted can't hear you!

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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?

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

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I made an animated nightingale for Madame Tussauds...

https://t.co/hzaNp6lOQd

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@Classicbritcom His Dicky Ticker finally stopped ticking 💓

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Internal and external screw cutting - making a brass fitting on the mini lathe.

https://t.co/H0f4M3qpMc

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