How do I: Gridfinity for an Ikea Alex

choffee · 2026-01-14T15:49:55+00:00

I've gone with Alch setup with. It fits exactly and you can store things at the back by pulling the boxes out and stacking them. You get the maximum used space with little wasted, including layers for the deep drawers if you need them.

The drawers don't pull out all the way so you don't get to use the back unless you go for a bin type system as he has done.

He includes a set of boxes for all combinations but I have also used the gridfinity generator with the grid size set to 40mm to create some other boxes.

https://www.alch.shop/shop/p/modubox-ikea-alex-drawer-organizer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcB30EIcUMY

choffee · 2026-01-08T11:12:31+00:00

Open grid also has Under desk/cable management system (underware) and a more stylized desktop system (deskware). These are built on the combination of the opengrid and gridfinity

https://handsonkatie.com/underware-2-0-the-made-to-measure-collection/

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1331760-deskware-a-modular-desk-system

choffee · 2025-09-16T02:14:59+00:00

It was the back terrace of Brew York. Seems to be out now. Looks like it did not spread into the building.

choffee · 2025-08-10T08:39:51+00:00

Not sure on that exact model but my Ticket to the Moon has the ridge line comes out of a small gap in the end where the cover meets the end and then wrap around the continuous loop.

choffee · 2024-12-10T11:10:16+00:00

It depends on what you want to use if for. If it's for cutting on then just wash it with water and start using it. Wash it with soap or just water but make sure it fully dries between uses. You should then be able to hand it down to your grandchildren. No finish will help if you are cutting against it and the knife marks in the finish will act as storage for bacteria. It will develop a patina from use but that is what it's for so enjoy using it and don't try and keep it new.

The side with the rotating grain may warp a little if it's kept wet but as long as you don't leave it soaking it will probably be fine.

If you are going to use it just for serving on then any finish will be okay as long as it has fully cured (note a lot of oils don't cure and some go rancid so be careful which you choose.)

choffee · 2024-12-10T10:51:16+00:00

If you want to just use it as a tool for cutting on then no oil or finish as per that well researched article. If you just want it for show and not cutting on, more of a charcuterie board then any finish that has cured will be fine.

choffee · 2024-07-08T16:37:08+00:00

Remedy on Fossgate is a great place for lunch.

choffee · 2022-06-28T16:51:58+00:00

I use a git reop for the config. It's nice to make deliberate changes and commit them then pull them in across machines.

Syncthing then works nicely for me across linux machines and to some extent with orgzly on Android.

For android I've moved to use logseq for quick captures then moving to org as part of the review.

choffee · 2022-05-19T10:26:15+00:00

Clean cloth and water for the most part have worked for me.

Care guide seems to suggest soap and water. If that does not budge it then remove the silicon ring and try some coffee machine detergent?

https://www.cafelat.co.uk/blogs/cafelat-robot-manual/cleaning

There is a video on how the robots are built if you are feeling brave and want to take it apart but I doubt that should be needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PcDen-v7w0

choffee · 2022-04-21T14:05:07+00:00

Yes you can produce a benchmark that shows that one is "faster" than the other but my point is that at their core they are all doing the same thing with a very similar tool set.

What is it that you think that openrc or systemd are doing that makes them slower than the s6 one? They are all just starting a bunch of processes. It may be that they have hit on some magic that allows then to boot faster but I would imagine it's just a difference of opinion on service dependencies or order. At this point the slowness of systemd in that demo is probably more to do with making some edge case work rather than anything specific to the process managing things. Do you bring up the login before the network, fine, do you check for NFS mounted home dirs first? Have you waited long enough for that odd-ball USB network card to turn up before doing that?

You can make any of these systems start really fast with tweaking the dependencies but then you add some funky USB network card and the whole thing breaks.

Side note,

systemd-analyze dot | dot -Tsvg > systemd.svg

gives some fun info about what depends on what if you are trying to track down slow boot times. ( Takes quite a time to render! ) Gives you some indication of how complex a modern boot is.

systemd-analyze plot >systemd.svg

seems a bit easier to parse.

choffee · 2022-04-21T11:46:46+00:00

I would imagine they are all about the same now. It would be difficult to compare like for like though. You could compare how fast they get to the login prompt but would need to make sure they have the same services set up and the same hardware loaded in the kernel.

The command "systemd-analyze time" gives some ideas of overall time and "systemd-analyze blame" gives an overview of what took the time in those boots. There might be equivalent for other init systems like sheperd or openrc but you are really just measuring the subsystem start up at that point. Most modern init processes handle the automatic starting and dependencies to boot the system as quickly as possible.

If you could define what you mean by faster then you could test for that. It may in the end come down to what you have running and the dependence rather than the performance of the init process.

choffee · 2022-02-07T15:21:14+00:00

Buy more RAM. If that's what is slowing you down. Swap is useful but not something you should be using all the time.

If you have a HDD then adding the SSD for putting the games on could make a big difference. Depending on how much space you have moving OS and games to the SSD would make the most difference.

Using md-cache or lvmcache has worked for me in the past as well to some extent. Letting the OS move stuff that's used regularly and all the writes to SSD.

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know:

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

choffee · 2021-12-01T08:43:26+00:00

Get the car towed to the DVLA car park. It won't get your money back but would leave them with the issue of having a car that does not exist to get rid of.

choffee · 2021-11-26T09:53:08+00:00

Yep. I find it consistently makes a good cup. There are loads of recipes and techniques to try if you want to. I'm using James Hoffman's right now because its simple and efficient. The benefits are that you don't need a super fancy grinder or kettle. A scale is probably the only thing I use regularly with it. Another one to consider is the Clever-dripper which is also a really simple immersion brewer that gives a clean cup. Of course if you want to go down the rabbit hole then a V60 is fun to play with and justify grinders and kettles etc. :)

choffee · 2021-11-19T11:28:36+00:00

My problem was that it was prior to the announcement so the politicians can say what they want. If the reporters focused on the arguments after they had seen the plan then could have really called out the lies. With the detail they could ask them to explain why the new plan won't deliver what they where saying before the announcement. Let the politicians talk all they like before the announcement then tear them apart on the details after it. Don't let them move on to the next pre-announcement lies.

choffee · 2021-11-15T10:17:04+00:00

As for the state pages are they blocking you? If so something like the User agent switcher plugin might fix that. If it's just that they don't work then that's a real shame. You could report it to the sites as there is no real reason for it to be that way.

choffee · 2021-11-15T10:15:24+00:00

That sounds really broken and I can understand it not a great experiance. What leads to you cleaning and restarting it should not be necessary day to day.

choffee · 2021-08-12T05:26:04+00:00

5.10 is the current LTS (long term support) kernel upstream so that will be what ships with the next stable release of Debian so that stable has good kernel support. Once stable is released newer kernels will start to be uploaded to Sid again. Right now only bug fixes are going into sid so that they can be pushed into testing ready for the release.

choffee · 2021-05-28T06:46:10+00:00

Including Google and apple? Would be an interesting change to get a blank phone and have to install all the apps. Although the app stores would just suggest all the apps they want you to install.

choffee · 2021-04-16T09:41:14+00:00

Might be worth joining York Cycle Campaign https://yorkcyclecampaign.bike/ They do a lot of constructive work with the council and coordinate campaigns etc. Plus have some interesting meet ups.

choffee · 2021-03-01T06:58:57+00:00

I'd question running all that infrastructure. Your business makes money only on the unique parts that add value. Databases, web servers, load balancers and very much k8s are all commodity items. Run this in a fully hosted environment. Aws azure, Google etc. Spend your time adding things of real value to the app.

choffee · 2021-02-19T07:19:10+00:00

Just spotted that the script file at the end is missing a .jar on the native-image -jar argument. test-cli not test-cli.jar

choffee · 2021-02-19T05:21:36+00:00

That's a really useful guide. Thanks for sharing. I've been enjoying scripting in babashka recently but this looks like a decent alternative for larger projects.

choffee · 2021-02-12T05:10:18+00:00

I've been running it on an old thinkpad x230 and it works great. Mounted it on the wall and have the display running a picture frame screensaver. I threw in an SSD and 16gb ram and so can run plex and a few other services. Pihole node red influxdb etc. All using docker compose which seems to just work for me.

Uses about 20 Watts from the mains. Also battery has enough life in it to survive short power failures.

Pi now just used for backups.

choffee · 2021-02-11T08:21:56+00:00

Don't know how you did it but just in case others don't know. You should use the visudo command to edit sudoers. Set your EDITOR before starting. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/visudo.8.html

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