This week
- Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, and for millions of PC users, that sounds like bad news, because you may not have the right hardware for Windows 11, or you may not want all of your personal data vacuumed up by Microsoft. But here’s the...
Last week
- Step by step instructions for monitoring your yellingist feathered neighbors....
- Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy....
- After setting up dozens of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices, I started to wonder: how hard could it be to build one from scratch? I needed a project to learn on, so I decided to create something fun: a device that alerts my neighbors when my kids go swimming,...
- A simple box with one button and one job: reminding me to push that button....
About a month ago
- I’m a huge fan of ZSA. Their Voyager keyboard changed the way how I work and massively increased my typing speed, accuracy and comfort. I published my thoughts about it in the “A month with the ZSA Voyager split keyboard” some time ago. ZSA is a bunch of hard-working folks who...
- If your computer doesn’t meet Microsoft’s system requirements for Windows 11, you may have seen the dreaded message: “This PC can’t run Windows 11.” The usual culprits are missing TPM 2.0, no Secure Boot, or an older CPU. But here’s the good news: you can still upgrade Windows...
- Before too much time passes, I wanted to jot down some thoughts about yesterday’s Apple event. Things opened with a quote from Steve Jobs: “Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.” It’s a small thing, but I found this annoying. The intro video...
2 months ago
- What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param…
- I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development....
- August 3, 2025 Over the weekend, I went to the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum down on the peninsula, an event that probably deserves a post of its own — it was fabulous — but/and I want to jot down some broader questions about how technology...
- In the Q&A session following my EuroPython 2025 presentation about the Microdot web framework, a member of the audience asked me what the performance of MicroPython running on a microcontroller is. This took me a bit by surprise, because I really had no way to quantify it, I...
- A very fast du -sh clone for macOS....
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. July 30, 2025 My neighbors at Oxide Computer just raised a bunch of money. Here is a company that did the coolest thing, which is also,...
3 months ago
- You know those little things that you just sort of ignore, over over and over again, until finally one day the planets align and you’re like “No! I’m not putting up with this any more! There must be a way to fix it!” Welcome to my cameras. I have two Canon EOS M200 cameras,...
- When Apple showed off their new Liquid Glass design language at WWDC in June, I was excited. I’m a sucker for shiny stuff, and I thought the refractive UI elements looked great as presented in the keynote. But then several people shared screenshots of the design being difficult...
- July 3, 2025 Steve Mould is a science YouTuber whose work I really enjoy. He recently posted a video showing off an OpenDrop device by GaudiLab. The device is mesmerizing, and he was able to get some simple games developed for it using CoPilot. He explains the physics behind the...
4 months ago
- It was a casual BBQ catch-up with a bunch of old friends, when we had a conversation about programming in Go, burgers, podcasts, and keyboards. Something along these lines. Savvas: I recently bought a split keyboard and I love it. A little bit of background. I don’t struggle...
5 months ago
- Keeping warm in the winter...
- The podcast setup at Get Paid was upgraded, focusing on quality and budget-friendly equipment for both remote and in-person interviews. Key choices included the Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2 for video, Shure MV7+ microphones for audio, and an organized storage solution....
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- My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and I entertained myself...
6 months ago
- This is the same post as “Disable/enable Pi-hole using Apple Shortcuts” that I published a few years back, but aligned with the 6th major release of Pi-hole. This little piece of software has been running at our place on a Raspberry Pi left and forgotten behind the cupboard for...
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