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2025-06-15

Initial publication

On The Go Photography Backups

On the go backups can be run using an Android phone with the following hardware. A dedicated device is no longer necessary. Use a file manager that can read/write OTG disks and use the phone to copy/paste data from SD cards to backup storage.

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2025-06-15

Initial publication

Mirrorless Camera Videography

This post is a collection of my notes on how to use a mirrorless camera for videography. These notes are specific to the Sony a6500 mirrorless camera but should be adaptable to other models and brands.

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2025-05-31

Initial publication

What’s Here

This post is less ‘macrame project’ and more ‘useful information’.

Overview

As I continue to work through learning macrame, experimenting with sinnets, learning to tie various knots and more I realized I need a basic method of tying things together (duh?). I also need a way to organize my materials for everything I’m working with at any given moment.

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2025-05-25

Initial publication

Cat Scratcher Rewrapping

It’s surprisingly easy and cheap to re-wrap a cat scratcher. The hard part is finding a technique that’s straight forward, easy to learn and doesn’t require specialized hardware (tools).

The below outlines a way of re-wrapping cat scratchers that fits the criteria. The only special tool needed is a fid (lacing needle) as the finishing step that holds everything in place needs the rope to be laced through the main whipping wraps. Thankfully fid’s are not expensive and easily obtained.

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2025-05-23

Initial publication

Book Carrying

A simple way to wrap a book for carring. This is meant to allow attaching a book to a bag via caribeaner and similar.

Materials

• Paracord 550

Techniques

• Main Wrap: Unnamed Parcel Wrapping - 2087
• Short Strand Stopper: Oysterman’s Stopper - 526
• Loop: Unnamed Adjustable Loop - 1021

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2025-05-31

Minor updates based on some adjustments I’ve made as I dig deeper into macrame 2025-05-23

Initial publication

How I Macrame

I’ve finally made enough progress with Macrame and related to start publishing my work. This post goes through the ‘why’ of my interest, my current tools, organization practices and more. It’s a general run down of what I’ve put together in order to practice macrame effectively.

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2025-05-23

Initial publication

The Post

A handy trick: a rolling pin is cheap, easy to obtain and can simulate a post. This can be super helpful for learning hitches and whippings.

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2025-05-23

Initial publication

Simple Bookmarks

A simple, easy way to create bookmarks.

Materials

• 550 paracord, interior removed

Techniques

• Length: measured on diagonal from upper to lower corners with extra cord to allow tying knots at both ends
• Figure 8 - ABoK #520 for top of bookmark
• Double Figure 8 - ABoK #523 for bottom of bookmark

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Analog Version

This post is about the digital anti bad habit notebook. For an analog version implemented as a pocket notebook, see this post.

The Post

Not going to lie : I have a few bad habits and have used my analog anti bad habit notebook to break some in teh past.

Sadly, I can no longer reliably use analog methods for my notes and similar. Due to this I went ahead and re-implemented the anti bad habit analog notebook as an Obsidian vault. So far it’s proven very helpful for tracking a bad habit I want to break and should work well for pretty much any “bad habit” one may want to break.

What’s Within?

This post contains a breakdown of how I use a computer, laptop and phone. I’ve made some significant changes over the last few years due to worsening health hassles. Everything here has been iterated over time in order to create a compute environment that makes my life easier to manage. Especially when my my health hassles are at their worst.

Feel free to borrow ideas, adapt things and generally use the contents of this post as you see fit. As always: this is a highly individual approach to computering. Take what works, leave the rest.