Practical Skills Blogs
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- How Credit Scores Really Work — Think closing a credit card will tank your score? In this post I explain how credit scores really work, covering FICO vs
- How and why you should start an emergency fund — Think of an emergency fund as your financial seatbelt. You'll find clear steps on how to start an emergency fund and why
- Rediscovering Sketching — Sketches saved me from endless CAD edits. I show hand sketches and NanoCAD plans for cycle crossing design, walking cycl
- California’s Tallest Bridge Has Nothing Underneath — Ever wondered why California's tallest bridge seems to have nothing underneath? This transcript of my Practical Engineer
- The Bizarre Bases of Antenna Towers — Remember the Warsaw Radio Mast collapse in 1991? In this Practical Engineering post I explain why guyed masts have those
- navilink.pl — Need an easy way to move waypoints and tracks from a Locosys GPS? I walk through installing and using navilink.pl, the P
- pam_require — Want to lock down SSH to a specific group or user? In this post I introduce pam_require, a tiny PAM account module for L
- DokuWiki — Want a simple wiki without a database? Here I explain why DokuWiki fits small companies, how plain text pages keep data
- What If an Earthquake was Predicted to Happen in Four Days? What Would You Do?? — What would you do if an earthquake was predicted in four days? As a geology teacher I run this hypothetical with student
- A Simple Low Expense, Low Tax Investment Portfolio for DIY Beginners — Simple works best for retirement investing today. Here I lay out a low expense, low tax investment portfolio for DIY beg
- Racing through a minefield: the AI deployment problem — What should you do if you're on the cusp of building transformative AI? Here I outline the AI deployment problem as raci
- How to keep your sashiko stitches straight — Struggling to keep sashiko stitches straight? My post shows easy sashiko tips for straighter embroidery, from drawing th
- How to make a palm thimble — How to make a palm thimble in 15 minutes using scrap leather and my free A6 palm thimble template. This DIY palm thimble
- Sashiko Pattern Tsuzukiyamagata — Want a quick sashiko win? I walk through the tsuzukiyamagata sashiko pattern, explain tsuzukiyamagata sashiko pattern me
- Sashiko Pattern Bishamonkikkō — Curious about the sashiko pattern bishamonkikkō and how to stitch it? I trace its origin to Tōji, explain the Bishamonte
- Sashiko Pattern Hoshi to Mitsubishi — Curious about the sashiko pattern hoshi to mitsubishi? In this post I explain sashiko pattern hoshi to mitsubishi meanin
- Theory and practice — A long held dream at my father's knee finally gets rolling. Years of railway history and modelling theory met a stubborn
- WP Engine Migration: a Checklist or an Automated Plugin — Want to move WordPress to WP Engine without downtime? Read my step by step guide covering the WP Engine migration checkl
- Detoxing in History: the morning after the night before! — I show how I diagnosed and fixed a corrupted JFIF/Exif JPEG step by step. I walk through the exact commands and tools I