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This is starting to get silly

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It’s been a while since I made any LEGO office equipment. I had to fix that. I found my desk getting cluttered with a few bits I always had hanging round: Pens and pencils Headphones Short USB cables (for charging my phone etc) Couple of small backup drives USB memory sticks USB adapters Capo (I…

LEGO office equipment

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In May 2020, as every year, I attended the wonderful All Day Hey conference. This year, due to The Pandemic Situation, the conference couldn’t be held in the wonderful Yorkshire city of Leeds, instead it was online. The attendees were encouraged to post pictures of where they were attending the conference from, and I was…

I’m learning React

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Some people who know me well may not quite have heard me correctly, so I’ll repeat: I’m learning React. Does this mean I’m turning my back on the principle of Progressive Enhancement? Does it mean I’m going to start building websites which are 99% JavaScript and 1% everything else? Have I given in? No, dear…

Week One (and a bit)

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It’s hard to describe what’s happened in the UK in the last week (and a bit). Although many of us had kept half an eye on developments in China and around the world, the speed and scale of changes to life in this country came as a massive shock. Seems like those ‘tin foil hat’…

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July 6, 2020, 6:07 pm

It's been a while since I made any LEGO office equipment. I had to fix that. I found my desk getting cluttered with a few bits I always had hanging round:
  • Pens and pencils
  • Headphones
  • Short USB cables (for charging my phone etc)
  • Couple of small backup drives
  • USB memory sticks
  • USB adapters
  • Capo (I play a bit of guitar)
  • Plectrums. Should that be plectra?
All necessary, all needed at my fingertips, but messy to leave lying around. So I built a desk tidy. My LEGO desk tidy It's got a place for everything, and everything in its place. Somewhere to put my plectrums/plectra. Plectrum holder in my LEGO desk tidy A pot on top for USB memory sticks and adapters, and any other small knick-knacks. Small box of bits in my LEGO desk tidy Cable hooks on each side. I decided against a more complicated system to store cables as ... well, it's not needed. Cable hooks on my LEGO desk tidy Round the back is a bracket for my capo. There are actually two brackets, not that I have two capo (capi?) but I needed the unit to be symmetrical. Capo bracket on my LEGO desk tidy And there are two caddies for storing the backup drives. I've also got an eraser in there, too. Backup drive storage in my LEGO desk tidy This was a fun little project to build! But I need to stop, as my wife is starting to think I'm strange. Or rather, stranger than she already thought I was.