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- A journey of a thousand doofy hardware projects starts with a single Adafruit blink...
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- The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, and our balls. While Ocean Cleanup is...
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- I recently got my hands on a GMKTec Evo X2 for local model inference. Here's my hardware details nish@gmktec-evo-x2:~$ sudo lshw -short H/W path Device Class Description ========================================================= system NucBox_EVO-X2 (EVO-X2-001) /0 bus GMKtec...
about 2 months ago
- 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...
- 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....
2 months 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...
3 months ago
- 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...
- I like to try new technology. 75% of what I buy is something I use once or twice then sell or give away (or keep in a drawer and forget about. Sorry, remarkable). But sometimes, on rare occasions, there's a product that is A) fucking awesome and B) I can't help but evangelize....
4 months ago
- 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,...
- 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,...
5 months ago
- 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...
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