Categories
Tiny projects
Some things I did which did not take very long.
- Another tiny weekend project (2025-02-16) - Cutting up some more metal with an angle grinder, and sticking the pieces together with a MIG welder.
- I migrated this site to Hugo (2024-12-06) - Some technical administrivia with a tangent or two.
- A tiny Saturday project (2024-12-01) - Cutting up some metal with an angle grinder, and sticking the pieces together with a MIG welder.
- The desk chair post, part 2 (2022-08-29) - In which Lewis over-solves a problem that does not exist.
Tech
- Calibrating a no-name Amazon digital spirit level (2025-02-09) - How to calibrate a cheap digital level after losing its manual.
- DNSControl is good software (2025-01-12) - Version-controlling my DNS configuration.
- I migrated this site to Hugo (2024-12-06) - Some technical administrivia with a tangent or two.
- The desk chair post, part 2 (2022-08-29) - In which Lewis over-solves a problem that does not exist.
Me, myself, and I
- DNSControl is good software (2025-01-12) - Version-controlling my DNS configuration.
- A tiny Saturday project (2024-12-01) - Cutting up some metal with an angle grinder, and sticking the pieces together with a MIG welder.
- The one where Lewis totally, irreversibly loses the plot (2024-10-10) - Doubling down on some fairly questionable life choices.
- Some angle grinder wall brackets (2024-05-01) - Some instructions for making brackets for hanging angle grinders on a wall.
Meta
Things about things you are reading; this site talking about itself.
Project Penny
A Rover 3 Litre (P5) from 1964.
- I don't like working with 304 stainless (2025-01-03) - Many tools died to bring you this information.
- Overkilling the Rover P5, part 2: the gearbox (2024-11-21) - Let's put a BMW gearbox on the Corvette engine in the Rover.
- The one where Lewis totally, irreversibly loses the plot (2024-10-10) - Doubling down on some fairly questionable life choices.
- A fully-dressed Chevy LS1 engine weighs 215 kilograms, or 474lbs (2024-07-08) - No need to even read this page. It's in the title.
Cars
My various adventures with shit old cars.
- Everything that happened to the cheap Fiesta (2024-12-31) - A £600 car, four MOTs later.
- Overkilling the Rover P5, part 2: the gearbox (2024-11-21) - Let's put a BMW gearbox on the Corvette engine in the Rover.
- The one where Lewis totally, irreversibly loses the plot (2024-10-10) - Doubling down on some fairly questionable life choices.
- A fully-dressed Chevy LS1 engine weighs 215 kilograms, or 474lbs (2024-07-08) - No need to even read this page. It's in the title.
Linux
I've been using Linux as my daily for the best part of 20 years now, and I still learn new things all the time. Here are things I am learning!
- I migrated this site to Hugo (2024-12-06) - Some technical administrivia with a tangent or two.
- "Ain't that some bullshit", 365-to-Migadu-migration edition (2021-12-29) - TL;DR: Use DavMail and imapsync.
- A cheap Ubuntu-friendly drawing tablet recommendation: XP-Pen Star G640 (2020-11-28) - The XP-Pen Star G640 works perfectly on Ubuntu!
- Today I found: Bastard Tetris (2020-09-23) - A game which is the stuff of literal nightmares.
Buying shit I don't need with money I do need
The title of this category is shamelessly stolen from Sam Hard of Hard Up Garage.
I regret nothing.
- A fully-dressed Chevy LS1 engine weighs 215 kilograms, or 474lbs (2024-07-08) - No need to even read this page. It's in the title.
- Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 1: the intercooler (2023-06-24) - In which there is nothing rational about owning a 1980s rally car.
- Introducing Project Penny (2021-03-18) - In which I acquire a Rover P5.
- One more job from the giant pile of necessary jobs (2021-02-16) - In which Autoglass source a windscreen for a BF-generation Mazda 323 GTX.
Project Amy
Stories from the recommissioning of a 1987 Mazda 323 GTX. The GTX is the incredibly rare four-wheel-drive, turbocharged hooligan edition of the Mazda 323.
This particular one came off the road in 2007, I purchased her as a rotten restoration project in 2015, and she finally returned to the road in July 2020.
- Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 7: the rocker cover (2024-03-03) - In which I make a B6T rocker cover look nice.
- Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 6: the turbo (2023-12-20) - What do we do with a worn-out IHI VJ9?
- Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 5: the heat shield (2023-11-23) - In which I do my best to rescue a disintegrating 36-year-old turbo heat shield.
- Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 4: making a hole in it (2023-11-04) - Putting bonnet vents into the Mazda 323 GTX.
Music
- 🎵 happy to be here 🎵 (2024-01-31) - A song by Todd Snider, the best musical artist of all time.
- 🎵 I never really trusted folks who have to talk so loud 🎵 (2021-09-03) -
- 🎵 and all that is left, is snow on the pines 🎵 (2021-05-20) -
- A timeless response to current events (2021-03-28) - 🎵 Ain't that some bullshit? 🎵
Cat
Railways
- Rail Alphabet survivors at March station (2021-11-20) - In which I visit March station to find remnants of British Rail branding.
- Visiting some remnants of the Lynn & Wisbech railway at Magdalen, part 2 (2021-04-19) -
- Strange things happen when you put your stuff on Wikimedia Commons (2021-02-28) - In which my photo of a train takes on a life of its own.
- Visiting some remnants of the Lynn & Wisbech railway at Magdalen (2021-01-17) - Visiting MMR/2333, a pair of bridge abutments in Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen.
Reviews
- A cheap Ubuntu-friendly drawing tablet recommendation: XP-Pen Star G640 (2020-11-28) - The XP-Pen Star G640 works perfectly on Ubuntu!
- Lazy reviews (part 1?) (2020-06-28) - (there wasn't a part 2)
- Gtechniq C4 is magic (2020-04-04) - GTechniq C4 really works and you need it in your life.
- The one where I didn't do the things I was going to do (2020-04-03) - A short review of the Driftworks Basics 350mm leather steering wheel
TIL
Things I learned, things I found.
- Today I found: Bastard Tetris (2020-09-23) - A game which is the stuff of literal nightmares.
- TIL: those Werther's Original adverts, and the power of marketing (2020-09-15) - The name "Werther's Originals" only dates to the 1990s, among other fun facts.
- TIL: old logs can take up a nontrivial amount of disk space on Ubuntu (2020-08-29) - sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=1d