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Cast Iron Cleaning with Electrolysis

My process for cleaning cast iron pans is very similar to that described in the link below. https://www.realtree.com/timber-2-table-articles/how-to-build-an-electrolysis-tank-for-cast-iron-restoration My variation is as follows. 1. I use dollar store cookie sheets as the anode. They are cheap and disposable. You have to sand the protective surface off of the sheets to […]


Printed carving pattern

Portrait Pumpkin Carving App 2

Based on the process I use each year to carve pumpkins from portraits, originally described here, I have created an application for generating pumpkin patterns. Click here to run the App Instructions: Upload your own portrait by clicking on the “Choose File” button at the top of the page. Try […]


CSLua has moved to GitHub

After forgetting about this project for three years, CSLua has been moved to GitHub. It was about time to clean it up and publish it somewhere that people can share and use it. I’m not even sure there is much of a need for running native C Lua binaries from […]


GPX Viewer using Google Maps API Version 3

After 12 years of stability, I have resurrected the GPX Viewer script to update it with the Google Maps API v3. Those of us still using the V2 API were starting to get strange errors and messages about the keys expiring or pages crashing when using the old V2 API […]


Impossible Escape Possible

A reddit post, linking to this article got me thinking about a solution to the the problem. Click the link for more details. Don’t read past the first bit if you don’t want the solution. It took me some thinking to figure out the solution and it ended up being […]


Coinwidget Shortcode Plugin 2.0

I’ve updated the Coinwidget Shortcode plugin with a branch of the original code from https://github.com/alvinhkh/CoinWidget. This includes support for Dogecoin and I fixed some issues with the way that the options are parsed so that they can all be overridden successfully. The latest version of the plugin can be downloaded […]


Coinwidget Shortcode Plugin 1.1

Updated the coinwidget.com shortcode plugin to fix an issue where the code would fail due to it trying to append elements to comments in the page. Issue 4 was reported some time ago as a bug in the coinwidget.com plugin. It was causing me some trouble when using different WordPress […]


CoinWidget shortcode plugin

I’ve created a WordPress plugin to insert coinwidget.com widgets into your posts and templates as shortcodes. See coinwidget.com for more information For example, the following code Will insert the following button in your posts or themes. You can download the plugin from here until it is published in the WordPress […]


Blogger Image Import 2.1

Based on some new issues brought up by Morgan, I have simplified the regex for finding images (and I think removed a bug) and added “jpeg” to the list of valid image extensions. http://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/blogger-image-import/