Ultimate Murphy Bed - The Story

This shows the sequence as generally I use it. It is structurally complete, but still around 101 things left to do. 

One advantage of DIY, is that, after looking at the sequence images, the standup work station gave me further thought. 

I have not had one before and am even using now as I type. I have put in a foldable shelf & figure I can also use the space behind the hinge (down position) as storage for the keyboard & where the through desk wireless charging could go. In the sitting position the shelf was not noticeable. I'm just trying to figure a design that works for two angles and orientations. As the two orientations are ninety degrees apart in the X/Y angle - it is interesting. I will update when I figure it.

I also have a lot more customisation, varnishing, painting, edging, concealment, covering up, etc. This though, is perhaps the main design. I can't keep track as I change things more often than the weather. Literally everything I look at; I rebuild or customise. It has taken me months to get to this point as a part time hobby and will perhaps take months more. I have a foam mattress now to lessen the weight, some observers might ask "why use solid beech?" Answer: I like it and wanted it and have been trying to design around it since. On the whole, I don't think it is a practical wood for this design, but the problems of weight make building it a little more interesting.

My main computer is still the Meg Ace in a Thermaltake Distro 350p case, which is using the Aqua computer system which applies negative pressure (In my case 400mbar). I still have tidying to do, but have different ideas on cabling and am gradually lessening cables. To the left of the pump, you can see the top of an inverted chromed cut table leg, that routes all cables to the PSU through the shelf. I have also the DVD down below and some additional wiring. I have the three NVME's on the Mobo itself occupied and a fourth in the 3rd PCI-E slot with its own water cooling (cute, huh?). I use flexible hose as it allows me to swing the case open (around twenty degrees), without leakage. The unit was built first and was designed to match the Murphy bed, i.e., Beech and chromed tube. it is on wheels and will move for access or any other reason. The Murphy Bed Frame itself is just 40cm depth from the wall. The computer is both safe and secure and visible to me as I work or whatever and out of the way when the transformations are taking place. 

The info below is my basic HTML that all runs locally using Firefox as a frontend. Firefox is more forgiving than Chrome or MS edge when doing things like modifying Bootstrap. I had tried once to eliminate Quirks mode from all my pages, but I lost some functionality. The amount of "professional" sites that enable it, is realistic when you think of how much business can be lost by placing coding etiquette above real money. Likewise, until I decide it's worth my time, I'm not bothering. I have just added this as it doesn't read below, but I think is somewhere else... And that is the software below is designed for my touch screens (the major reason for the icon size and artwork). I have no icons on my desktop and millions? of files. Through the thousands of media files I possess, I wanted to be able to access any media in three - four touches, regardless of how "deep" the location of the files. My homepage on Firefox is a custom page/HTML file that takes me anywhere I choose, local or external. All icons below are visually identifiable normally taking a unfamilair observer a few seconds each menu at most to identify, myself - almost immediately, i.e. from a blank screen to a song playing, takes me around 2 seconds from around three thousand songs (for example). 

I am at present experimenting with ISO's which MakeMKV converts a standard DVD rip to this. I can save space by using Handbrake to convert them to MKV's (but could be mp4), depending on whether I need to preserve audio, subtitles etc. Iso's are though triggering that annoying "do want to download this file or save it" message which require changing the default action despite settings saying it's changed already from save to open - it does though then open immediately. My hobbies include reverse engineering and I am sure given time I can figure a way around it.  

This is a page I was designing as I had a thought with movie sequences that I could have a themed sub section for any particular movie series. The code (albeit crude) is just the beginning for me to see how it might look. When time permits, I have the idea that I can mimic the background gif, for the images of the movies and sync them, so that they will appear to be part of the background gif. As some of these are 4k, the default player is VLC when you click, or touch them. So the idea is to be basically have what will look like an interactive gif. I have the code to the left so you can see it is quite basic.

The code under Fawlty Towers I think more conforms to the rules of HTML in that Mechanics.txt is a CSS file with web links removed as I wanted to create my site which is self-contained and only uses the internet for my own links, web design etc. Everything is local and I use a browser for overall design of the library as it means everything is always up to date and I have never had to redesign code for a program update, as it no longer works. All is written as UTF-8 which most browser companies want to be the standard. 

The layout of the icons as illustrated in the Harry potter gif, indicates that through different values <div class="col-md-5"></a></div> will space the icon 5th of 12 columns, meaning design can be written into the text instruction for the data, as most "professionals" generally might put this in CSS. As I have multiple files, I can't see the point as I would need a variable command and would be incredibly complicated for me to do.

To the left is one of my albums and this also has Mp4 in it. As these files are low resolution, I just have them open in the browser. I have quite a lot of videos and sometimes when I listen to music, I like to watch the associated video. I have a pair of Edifier speakers which are tri-amped and although only £400 sound quite good and serve my needs. The code as you can see incorporates A-player which I visually customised from the stock version and I overall liked the functionality. Things like WMP and Plex were not what I wanted, so this is my design for my needs. All this media is local, so no internet, no problem.

The Mentalist is regular col-sm-2 and as I have all the seasons & is a lot of icons. The series episode title means col-sm-1 is too small to read and the illustration too small to see. I don't use generally <p></p> anywhere except in my music folder where I have a few albums containing 100 tracks or so. When I have the time all songs will have album art, but present just use <p> & <h?> etc. Movies are generally really good as an image is generally enough and occasionally I will use a promo shot which is everything you need.