Here’s a selection of the new jewelry I designed and crafted over the past month. I used to use a lot more copper but shifted at some point towards using mostly silver. Lately I’ve been bringing back the copper and I love…

Today I recorded a video to demonstrate the basics of using a jeweler’s saw. I love teaching skills to others, but making a video has always felt so daunting. Once I got started filming it was way smoother than I expected…

I’m currently working on setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and I like to have a clean login menu with no extra options. In a previous post I showed how to disable the guest account and remote login in Ubuntu 13.04…

The other night I started craving sweets after dinner, as usual. So as I often do, I looked up recipes for what I could make that is gluten-free with what I have on hand. There’s a flourless peanut butter cookie…

Today I made a necklace and I let the metal guide me. The silver was a sharp piece with a few circles cut from its sides. I rounded its spikes and edges, then found a piece of copper with a…