In this episode of “Woodworking with Joe”, I build a bunkbed. We needed a full size bunkbed that was also long enough to span two twin beds. After looking around online we couldn’t find anything that was both fit our dimensions and also be rugged enough for under $1,500, so I designed and built this one for around $400. I first designed out the bed in SketchUp: Here is an STL model if you would prefer that.

Gentle reader, you have been directed to this page because you recently said, without sarcasm: “Everyone was on Twitter.” This phrase is utter nonsense, as a quick bit of math will show. The population of the world is 8 billion people, a threshhold it just recently crossed. The number of people on Twitter is up for debate, but we’ll be generous and presume 250 million people, or 0.25 billion people.

There’s nothing like almost dying to really focus the mind. My personal “2020” began back in Jan of 2019 when a long, lingering, and mis-diagnosed case of diverticulitis caused my large intestine to tear, requiring emergency surgery and nine days in the hospital, during which I lost 20 pounds, and had at least five days straight where my heart rate was over 165. If you are interested, I document that event in more detail in A thing that happened.

I am 100% in favor of the destruction, de-construction, or outright implosion of all centrally controlled for-profit walled-garden[1] social media sites, and none more so than Twitter. The primary harm such sites promulgate is a positive feedback loop of extremism, fostered in the corporate chase of engagement, solely in the name of profits, while the social discord they engender, now veering sharply toward political violence, is foisted on the rest of us as an unpriced externality.

Kudos to the Firebase team, setting up this blog to automatically publish every time I commit was ridiculously easy. Here are there instructions: Deploy to live & preview channels via GitHub pull requests Here is my slightly tweaked workflow file.