I’ve just got myself a lovely new LED up-lighter, but look where I’m testing it — under a desk in the office, where there are plenty of plug sockets! I’m going to convert it to battery power, so I can take it wherever I want. A build like this would…

I get these off-cuts from my local timber merchant. They’re 20p (0.25 USD) each for about 25mm by 25mm by 1,200mm. That means this set of shelves — which I’ll use as a drying rack — costs about £5 (6.5 …

First Person God — An awful lot of attention is given to VR’s ability to transport you to some other space. For good reason too — that’s exactly what it does. But that also seems to attach VR to being purely for first person experiences. That simply doesn’t need to be the case. Playing…

Then back to the Reform Club, or else £20,000 will belong to you! — Most of our work at Dubit is as an agency, so our schedules are very rarely our own. Sometimes we can buy a few days by getting our projects shipped ahead of time, which allows us to invest in our own process and skills. That happened recently, and gave us…

Proper Bacon Stacking — The proper bacon sandwich contains both bacon and bread. While it may also contain butter, ketchup, lettuce, and tomatoes, that’s not for here. If it’s to contain bacon and bread in each mouthful, your meat must remain where it’s been placed. Biting into a bacon sandwich to completely pull out…

Bay Leaves, Black Pepper, Butter, Garlic, Mushrooms, Mustard, Onions, Parsley, Thyme, Tomatoes, and Wine — Compiled from more than a hundred recipes. Incredibly common flavour enhancers are marked in bold. Hard flavours (sweet, sour… etc.) are omitted (but it’s salt and MSG for all of them). Also omitted — beef flavouring. Here we go… Braised Bay leaves; celery; carrots; onions; red wine; rosemary; vegetable oil.

And whether or not you should worry about that which naturally occurs — I’m not addicted to salt, but the supermarkets are. When I visit one to get some lunch before I scurry back to the office, I see dozens of other city workers doing the same thing. Many of them, like me, can be found making salads part of their lunch. Whereas…

tl;dr — Talcum Powder — Sitting in a pub, putting your bare forearms onto the table, then lifting your glass up and feeling the sticky pull of a not-fully-clean surface against your skin is unpleasant. It’s generally not ‘dirty’ though. The stickiness you commonly feel from a table in a public place is mostly residue…

All of my favourite places to stop cooking — Whether you’re working with a water bath, thermometer, an unusually trustworthy oven thermostat, your own experience, or just plunging your face into a pan and guessing, you often know your food’s cooked once it’s reached the correct temperature. …