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  Synth Power

  July 30, 2026

  … OCR text transcript The power After searching and reading a lot, I found the XL5430 +/- 12V mode based on the TPS5430 chip. This is cheap, simple, and small. I’m

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  Synth Goals

  July 30, 2026

  … OCR text transcript The Goal Ultimately I work to record a lo-fi video game soundtrack for a fake game. I’m inspired by things like the Bastion old Zelda, and their

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  I'm Building a Modular Synth

  July 30, 2026

  … OCR text transcript I’m building a module synthesizer. After making about 10 working guitar pedals, I realized I was halfway to a synth. Having watched Moritz Klein’s excellent youtube series,

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  Finch V3

  July 30, 2026

  … OCR text transcript This is V3 of my finch kb. The first was hardwired in a 3d printed case. The second was one of my pcbs but I used a

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  A Post It Thought

  June 26, 2026

  … OCR text transcript 20260626 If this works it will be a miracle. The robots built me the scan to blog pipeline I demanded, and all it took was blood, sweat,

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  Agents Vs Bloggers

  June 23, 2026

  … OCR text transcript 20260623 What, I wonder, is the place blogs in a post-LLM world? Cloudflare notes as of today that in the last 7 days 64% of traffic comes from

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  I didn't need all those keys anyway

  August 15, 2024

  … I’ve posted a few keyboard builds here over the years. Each one was me looking for some kind of efficiency, or just wanting to try something different. This time, I wanted

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  VPN remote desktop with tailscale and x11vnc

  April 21, 2022

  … I have 2 linux machines: local and remote. local is the laptop I carry around to different networks–into the office, coffeeshops, library. But I want to be able to log

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  Raspberry pi laptop

  February 21, 2022

  … A story about a raspberry pi laptop Once upon a time I was excited about typewriters. Wait a minute, I am still excited about typewriters. Once I was excited about

• Raspberry pi: set numlock at boot

  February 14, 2022

  … On my new pi laptop (to be described in a later post) it always boots to console without numlock. I would prefer numlock to be ON always. > Raspbian GNU/Linux 10

• Python enthusiasts: try mamba as your conda resolver

  January 31, 2022

  … Conda solves a bunch of python environment problems. It makes it easy to manage different environments and use different dependencies for different projects. But sometimes it hangs and then tells

• Globally replace a font in linux

  December 8, 2021

  … There are many good fonts, but a few are terrible. In linux, we can force a replacement of a particularly hated font: Comic Sans Terminal sudo vim /etc/fonts/local.conf In this file, this will

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  Build a split planck keyboard

  October 10, 2021

  … This is my favorite keyboard. It’s comfortable, fast, and efficient. Make one! Materials 1 Arduino pro micro 1 nice micro usb cord 48 switches (your choice) 48 diodes (1N4148 or similar)

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  Setting up a streaming webcam on raspberry pi

  February 15, 2021

  … Purpose Audio baby monitors are cool and all, but how do you know when your 1-year old decides she’s big enough to climb out of the crib? Enter the baby spycam. This

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  Mini propane forge setup

  March 23, 2020

  … I have wanted to try blacksmithing since I was a kid. Yesterday I finally got a chance to do that. My setup is a propane tank, 6 firebricks, and a piece

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  A stand (for your phone)

  March 23, 2020

  … I previously built a Roubo phone stand that gets used all the time. But phonestands are so useful that I have more. A lot more. I designed this one in OpenSCAD, a

• A Blessing (poetry)

  January 13, 2020

  … A Blessing To eat when you’re hungry To sleep when you’re tired To work with your hands For the growth of a peaceful tribe And finally to recognize The fragile gift

• NLP analysis of 'Carnival Row' and 'Frankenstein'

  October 22, 2019

  … Context I am enrolled in a Natural Language Processing course this quarter. I’m enjoying it a lot and decided to share some of the coursework here. This represents an analytic comparison

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  Swallowtail coffee scoop

  October 4, 2019

  … I’ve been making some coffee scoops recently and this is the one that I most enjoy. It’s cherry, like most of my spoons. Scoops are in some ways more difficult to carve

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  How to keep Windows 10 start menu from searching the web

  September 17, 2019

  … I am a linux guy. Since Windows Vista, I’ve found that I prefer the simplicity and predictability of open source software to the arbitrary (and silly) business decisions that Microsoft

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