Posts in Wood

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In search of the simplest all-in-one blade sharpener

Getting into the world of woodworking means I suddenly found myself needing to sharpen a lot of blades. With no prior experience, this led me to spend many hours distilling conflicting information.

Here are some snippets of how I learned to sharpen, and the prototyping process of creating my own sharpening blocks.

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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

If you had the choice to sculpt a leg chair out of wood or write a full-fledged audio engine, complete with kernel drivers and whatnot, inside an app for controlling monitor brightness, what wou..

Wait, no, that’s not a question, you would do the leg chair for sure. There’s no way that other thing makes sense.