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A love letter to electric power tools

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Electric screwdriver reconnecting everything.

When I was seven or eight, I asked Santa to bring me a set of screwdrivers for Christmas. I wanted to take apart my toys to see how they worked. I also thought they might be useful on our upcoming holiday; if the aeroplane needed repairing mid-flight I'd be able to help! Santa heard my plea and delivered a set of screwdrivers. I used them for years. A few decades later and they're still in use - in fact, they're used a little too often. For years I resisted the idea of an electric…

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Screenscraping Album Artwork From The Linux Command Line

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Cover art for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper Album.

Like many people, I've collected a fair number of CDs over the years. As hard-drives and MicroSD cards have got larger and cheaper, I've gradually been ripping them to FLAC. Most CD rippers automatically tag the music files with the correct metadata and, nowadays, they will also download and embed album artwork as well. (As an aside, it always boggled my mind that CDs don't come with metadata burned onto the disc. Even a single spare megabyte would be enough to hold detailed track listing,…

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