Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I've also finally installed a garden hose box, because I am sick and tired of my garden hoses laying on the ground outside and getting damaged and needing replacement all the time (storing them inside is impractical because of frequent use and being wet)...

Progress picture of the plant table!

The promised pictures of yesterday's garage reorganization:

Yesterday's project was trying to finish my plant table - basically a large table that'll sit in front of the living room window, so I can put seedlings and such there so that they get a lot of sun.

It's made from some reused wood from old (no longer usable) shelving units, and some garbage-tier hardware store wood for the frame; the new hardware store wood is actually *worse* than the reused wood in many ways...

Anyway, I've almost finished it; I just had to wait for the glue to dry, then flipped it upside down, and now I still need paint the top... and then it's completed!

(It doesn't look particularly nice but that's okay - this is more a practice project than anything, to try out different techniques and see what works, and if something doesn't work, oh well - it's just a plant table anyway)

So, do I qualify for the #CarryShitOlympics yet?

You know those shaped-plastic blister packages that a lot of products are sold in, filling up your plastic waste bin? Here's an easy way to (partly) reuse them if you have a vegetable garden! All you need is scissors and some way to label things.

A lot of this style of packaging has large rectangular flat areas of plastic; almost always on the back of the package, sometimes areas on the front too. Find all of them and cut them out, so you're left with a stack of flat, rectangular(-ish) pieces of plastic.

Then just cut those rectangles into strips of about 5-10cm. They don't need to be cut nicely, they just serve as posts for your labels! Then either print labels and stick them on or, alternatively, write on them with a thin permanent marker.

Now you have tags for your plants, without needing to buy a bunch of new plastic ones!

#reuse #recycle #gardening

Thanks, Plasma, not like I'm actively playing music *right now* or anything

Very normal and well-designed software

"Maak op tijd een afspraak om je verlopende ID-kaart te vervangen, want het kan zo'n 6 weken duren voor je aan de beurt bent."

Meanwhile, de website van de gemeente:

What on earth is this 404 page? Is there a reference I'm not getting here?

I realize that it's "just" a pastebin and there are many others of those around the web, but something feels very on-the-nose here about what Mozilla has become over the past years, both in the action and in the phrasing

Time to print the variant for the smaller bins!

Picture of the above:

The slicer view makes it pretty visible where it's getting its strength from!

The wires ended up not working very well - however, they did inspire a slightly different solution. Instead of wires, I now fill up the slots with a solid layer - but only a *single* layer, instead of the full height, which is just enough to provide extra rigidity.

I've also slightly increased the thickness of the whole thing again, because it was bending at the hooks too much, risking breakage under weight. I've also modified the end hooks a bit; they are now actually hook-shaped, and thinner in some non-critical places.

The end result is a plastic cost of 1.65 meters; only slightly higher than the empty-slot version, which was about 1.55 meters. The original design was 3 meters!

The design seems about perfect now; the hooks only engage with the rim of the bin once it's under weight and the hooks are pulled towards it, whereas without weight there's enough margin that you can take off the whole net without getting stuck on that rim.

And it's working quite well with some stuff stacked on top of it! And a lot more stable than my previous corner design :)

If we're 3D-printing with filament anyway, why not add a few wires for strength? They cost barely any plastic!

This design change would reduce the plastic use by about 50%.

Working on my second attempt at a low-plastic stacking solution for the cheap "non-stackable" NOJIG bins from IKEA. This time it's a net that hooks over the edges of the bin. Hoping it's a bit more stable than my previous corner support solution.

Dat DigiD werkt echt uitstekend, zeg.

Wat gek, dat DigiD de status van mijn niet-bestaande rijbewijs niet op kan halen.