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A vintage ADM-3A terminal— image taken from the manual.
From QED to Neovim
03 09 2025blog
From QED to Neovim, this blog post unveils the history and evolution of the digital text editor. Modern systems require a method to precisely select, input, and arrage text. It's natural that this tool should become indispensable.
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Gif of me clicking the middle and right switches on a black foot-pedal with 3 switches total
Vim Clutch
05 21 2021blog
Hacking together a Vim Clutch from the foot-pedal control of a dictation machine. Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi 0 be...
DIYelectronics
Example of lead-acid battery post corrosion
Cars and Fish
04 19 2021blog
Far too many of us have been in the same gut-wrenching situation. You're late. The doors slam as you rush into your car. Then ...
DIYculture
Screenshot of desktop windows arranged with i3 (window manager) and the Regolith distro
Re­golith Lin­ux
02 04 2021blog
When did you first use a computer? I remember sitting at the corner desk in my childhood bedroom playing Descent II. It was pr...
WindowsLinux
Screenshot of the "Regolith" Linux distro running graphically through the X windowing system on WSL2 on Windows 10.
WSL2
11 21 2020blog
In 2001, Microsoft's former CEO— Steve Ballmer— was quoted by the online tech news publication, The Register...
Linuxcode
Animated GIF of the bench being pressure-washed in the yard.
Mi­cro­fac­to­ry 02
10 14 2020blog
During my undergrad in architecture, one of the things that most excited me was the opportunity to work in a fabrication shop....
DIYfabrication
Meme of anime character asking if something is something which it is not. Loosed blog: people reading it: is this justification for spending way too much time working on a personal website?
The Hug of Death
08 27 2020blog
When people are actually reading your blog, it might crash! Over the span of a couple days, this website got 8000+ unique visi...
sysadminLinux
Screenshot of grasshopper
Mi­cro­fac­to­ry 01
06 16 2020blog
In high school, there was no shop class. Sometimes I'd work on a project in the garage with my dad. Most of his tools are olde...
DIYrobotics
Screenshots of the warTOR app on a mobile device, all running from the Toshiba FlashAir WiFi SD card.
warTOR
05 06 2020blog
Oddly, I don't remember when or how I got my hands on the Toshiba FlashAir card. These WiFi-enabled SD cards are made to trans...
media artDIY
Collection of emblems
Freego
01 12 2020blog
The Boston Freedom Trail is a major tourist attraction for exploring many of the important monuments and sites of our nation's...
media artelectronics
Rosie the Roomba Remix
Rosie, the Room­ba Remix
12 20 2019blog
You've probabaly seen the incredible kinetic artwork of Theo Jansen. In 2007, a TED video was released featuring the Dutch art...
electronicsrobotics
Animated gif rotating through images of the Inhabiting an Other chamber and thesis presentation.
In­hab­it­ing an Oth­er
11 20 2019blog
Empathy… involves a lot of respect towards others… a tolerance to otherness without the projection of our feelin...
media art
Pope flicking holy water from an aspergillum
Hot Tub Phone Re­pair
10 15 2019blog
You shouldn't be allowed to have nice things when you forget your phone in your swimsuit pocket— not once, but twice! T...
electronicsDIY
Gif of Abstractions conference swag, conference map, and Centipede highscore.
Ab­strac­tions II
10 08 2019blog
Abstractions is a kickass Web developement conference started in Pittsburgh. This was only the second Abstractions ev...
codedesign
Gif of politicians.
Bernie's Bills
10 08 2019blog
Love Bernie's platform of student loan forgiveness? How could he actually achieve something like this?? Take a look at his bil...
politics
Gif of politicians.
De­mo­c­ra­t­ic De­bates
10 08 2019blog
Livestream and discussion as we follow candidates through the Democratic Debates....
politics
Gif of screenshots from featured blogs
What the Blog?
07 02 2019blog
Blogs?? That's right. You haven't time-traveled. We're 19 years past the turn of the millenium. People are giving up their wri...
culture
Screenshot of the original CorrelatePro homepage (no longer active).
Killing a Start­up
06 09 2019blog
Together with Sam Piecz, I co-founded a web application for visualizing personal financial data and test-building portfolios. ...
codebusiness
Animated gif rotating through photos of the Signs of Life exhibit. There's a photo of the thin tripod structure and projector, a photo of the GOES image, and an image of classmates trying on their headphones.
Signs of Life
01 18 2019blog
FM radio headphones were given out at the door. Each set was tuned beforehand to receive a broadcast from my programmed statio...
media artelectronics
A network of people, information, and culture visualized as a faceted tapestry.
Pub­lic In­ter­net
05 02 2018blog
Nearly a decade ago, Facebook pioneered the concept of social media. However, it wasn’t until recently— as the ...
Internetpolitics
A network of people, information, and culture visualized as a faceted tapestry.
Pub­lic Do­main
04 27 2018blog
In the previous post, I took a quick look at Cass Sunstein's #republic— particularly, at the mechanisms of onli...
culturemedia art
A council of people sitting in a chamber, visualized through the pages of a book as a frame.
A Re­pub­lic, If You Can Keep It
04 25 2018blog
Nicco's class Media and Journalism in the Digital Age is centered on what we're forced to loosely refer to as "news",...
Internetpolitics
Screenshot of desktop windows arranged with i3 (window manager) and the Regolith distro
The New News
04 11 2018blog
Last year I wrote a first draft of a paper, The Internet of Anxiety, which essentially documented the growing pains o...
politicsInternet
Image of Reagon pointing with the caption, "Tear down this wall!"
Mr. Ba­quet, Tear Down this Wall
03 28 2018blog
In 2014, The New York Times released an internal innovation report (since leaked to the public) on how a shifting&mda...
Internetpolitics
A collection of leather shoes.
Shoe-Leather Pol­i­tics
03 11 2018blog
In The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, the closed curtains typically shrouding the inner-...
Internetpolitics
A person's illustrated cartoon, distorted portrait morphed and warped and distorted into a pie chart which displays various data about the person. This civic data graphic artistically shows unique information about a person.
Whole Cit­i­zens
02 18 2018blog
In the previous article, I took a look at David Karpf's Analytic Activism— examining how political campaigns ha...
Internetpolitics
An illustrated person inside of a bubble, on their cell phone. There are words coming out and bouncing back at the person.
Pub­lic Cit­i­zens
01 31 2018blog
At times, public domain renders itself as a physical environment— perhaps a park, or plaza. Conceptually, thoug...
Internetpolitics

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