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Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-16 · 08:01 UTC

For context, here are some posts in the past where I show this bag.

(I thought I had made a proper thread of posts about it at one stage, but I probably made that up, I guess. I'll make a proper show&tell if somebody wants :)

https://hachyderm.io/@ma3ke/113095305527952701
https://hachyderm.io/@ma3ke/114637010204730392

Peter Sullivan @[email protected] · 2024-10-16 · 09:12 UTC

@ma3ke I guess its part of the way new languages always make it into the programmer zeitgeist:
Step 1: "I'm never going to bother to learn to use #foobar language, it does nothing I can't do already."
Step 2: "Actually, there are a few edge cases where a few lines of #foobar are more elegant than my usual programming language."
Step 3: "You know, once you get used to #foobar's way of working, it is really very elegant."
Step 4: Profit! (For authors of #foobar tutorial books, at least...)

#foobar

:: Asta :: @[email protected] · 2024-08-31 · 22:40 UTC

And for something totes different: does anyone have experience using iron acetate solutions on Acacia wood (and also if there's any reason I should avoid Acacia wood for labor/slavery/abuse/ecological reasons this is a great time to mention it) for achieving a nice jet black color? It doesn't have to be consistent and I'm not looking for something that resembles a painted Ikea surface. I like variation.

I'm looking to sort of make my own desktop and want a nice natural black. Our place has an empty shed that I could absolutely do the finishing work on and I would love to have something more or less finished by me (fuck, I'd love to make it but I have no clamps @[email protected] 😭).

I was also debating on how to finish after that: shellac? tung oil (seems to take forever)? just wax?

The reason I'm looking at acacia is that butcher block from Lowe's (is Lowe's the better one plz don't tell me they've done something shitty. fucking Home Depot) is relatively inexpensive and in my price range for this project.

boosts totally appreciated on this one

#wood #woodWorking #woodFinishing #woodFinishes

#wood #woodworking #woodfinishing #woodfinishes

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-16 · 18:27 UTC

photographing some nice high-drama skies on a little microtrip with my dad.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-16 · 07:56 UTC

Very pleased with the results.

Make your own things. Repair your own things.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-16 · 07:53 UTC

Now, it is time to start stitching. I'm using a strong, natural white thread that I think I used to sew the bag together when I originally made it.

Simply going over the original holes one-way to form diagonal stitches will give excellent support. I really love how this looks.

⅔

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-16 · 07:46 UTC

Yesterday, I repaired the sailcloth bag I made a couple years ago.

I love this bag so much. For a while, a section of the old stitching between the sailcloth panels has been slowly letting go. This does not compromise the bag yet, but this is the right moment to fix it.

First, I'm burning off the ends of the broken threads to clean that up. I'm also sticking a small bit of double-sided sailmaking tape between the layers to stabilize it for years to come.

⅓

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-15 · 16:48 UTC

repairing my sailcloth bag at the moment.

i have the right to repair my own shit.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-15 · 09:13 UTC

everybody is always like ‘oh hmm we need to drive our gpu from the cpu’

amateurs. i control my cpu from my gpu.
it’s called ADUC ever heard of it?? read up on it.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-15 · 09:12 UTC

the day between ascension day and the weekend: what a beautiful moment to upgrade the debian version of our forward server

our internal network works fine but we are disconnected from the outside world.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-15 · 07:59 UTC

and yes i do realize that me posting about sports on fedi will cause a brit to make fun of me.

it’s a cost of doing business.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-15 · 07:58 UTC

Wednesday’s Giro stage was insaane by the way please do yourself a favor and watch the last 20 min. Very slapstick.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-15 · 07:57 UTC

I saw a 50-year old man with very Captain Pike looking hair in an Ineos Grenadiers cycling jersey running with his dog on a leash in front of him and honestly this says a lot about the state of global road cycling these days.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-14 · 22:15 UTC

in other words: i’m putting together a zine that i’m happy to share a pdf for.

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-14 · 22:14 UTC

after that realization i started to focus more on some works that celebrate the 🆕 and the existent

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-14 · 22:11 UTC

“Most of my recent works are about friends who are leaving.”

Marieke @ma3ke · 2026-05-14 · 22:10 UTC

i’m making art more

and not telling y’all about it so much
which is sad
but most recent stuff has been about friends leaving. it is very personal and i’m not so into putting their faces on my internet here.

but it is really good.
trust me.

Marieke @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 18:26 UTC

update: I did, that works great.

but also, I really had to bite the bullet and parse #ifdef #else etc. so now I have a little stack machine set up.

#ifdef #else

Marieke @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 13:29 UTC

oooooh shiiit I think I'm about to write a streaming C-preprocessor to deal with the #includes in GROMACS top and itp files.[1]