joinery

A joiner is not going to have an interesting conversation about joinery with someone who has put some flatpak furniture together.

Learning something as complex as joinery -- and doing it well -- is necessarily going to take some time...

Any decent introduction to joinery/cabinetmaking book will discuss this basic property of wood as early as possible.

You can use a saw to cut a stick in half, but you can also use it to create joinery.

Some John Smith that buys furniture can touch nice cherry paneling, appreciate the joinery and grain.

Glue is typically used in traditional joinery, so less glue would actually have a negative effect.

After that an intricate joinery method is carved into the relevant places and carefully glued together with a natural glue so that the woodgrain matches and the join is practically invisible.

The Turkish garrison was low on ammunition, so started pulling apart the columns of the Acropolis to get at the lead joinery.

The security vulnerabilities in most systems occur in the joinery, not the lumber.

Expansion and contraction of wood is a fundamental concept in joinery and cabinetmaking.

LAP is sort of the Pragmatic Programmers of the joinery world.

Modern glues allow you to use a lot less complicated joinery.

"Quality joinery is not done with screws." I wasn't doing quality joinery.

Learn a new trade, become a joiner if you want to cut wood!" Because my gripe isn't that joinery exists as a trade - it's that equipment that is so smart still won't do simple things for the user - on principle.

I'd estimate that atleast one quarter of the stories on HN are about "semi-secret tech secrets," eg "How I do X with vim/rails/AWS/ubuntu." That being said dealing with the expansion and contraction of wood is hardly a semi-secret of joinery.