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I’ve been thinking about building my own watch, after finding that many parts are readily available online, and not crazy expensive. It’s partly driven by curiosity, and partly by the fact that I can’t find an affordable watch that’s looking just the way I want it.

As a first step, I wanted to play with some ideas regarding the dial. I found some services offering laser cutting and PCM etching which I believe I could use, on of them being Ponoko. They are accepting SVGs from Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape. After playing with Inkscape for a bit, I decided to write a simple generator in C++ to programmatically generate some of the elements.

Fascinating read: “The largest Git repo on the planet “

Quote:

“[…] the Windows code base is approximately 3.5M files and, when checked in to a Git repo, results in a repo of about 300GB. Further, the Windows team is about 4,000 engineers and the engineering system produces 1,760 daily “lab builds” across 440 branches in addition to thousands of pull request validation builds”

Source: Hackernews

It’s on Buzzfeed, but that’s a nice list with great photos: “22 Gorgeous Startup Offices You Wish You Worked In”

While reading up on golang a while ago, I discovered the Hugo static website engine and decided to set up a space to write about some projects I’m working on…