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Notes and resources on Haskell and the Tidal Cycles REPL, and integrating it with Neovim....

Notes and resources on 3D printing, including various printing technologies, popular printers, slicing software, and tips for successful prints....

Notes, tips, and tricks for using, maintaining, and upgrading the Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer....

As a kid, Windows and macOS were the only consumer-ready operating systems that I knew existed. I started on Windows 95, and didn't have an understanding about ...

Dictating is often a lot faster than typing, especially with sophisticated transcription tools. Because of its logical structure, code is a lot harder to dictat...

Knowledge about streaming tools, techniques, and software....

Tutorials and usage guides for creating content with the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)....

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...

This documents some of the most popular terminal emulators— commenting on the speed and features of Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm, and more....

Ghostty is a terminal emulator written in Zig, designed for speed and modern features like ligatures, undercurl, and image support....

In this page I share my experience using Next without Vercel hosting— and its associated costs ($$$), instead hosting on a generic VPS....

Drop your IDE and make Neovim your programming daily driver. Explore the incredible features of this modernized fork of Vim— including asynchronous events and L...

Notes on Docker (and Docker Compose)— the popular containerization platform for building portable application images and containers....

Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be powerful way to interact with digital information in a conversational manner....

Hacking together a Vim Clutch from the foot-pedal control of a dictation machine. Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi 0 be recognized across operating syste...

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 you turn the key, and ... nothi...

When did you first use a computer? I remember sitting at the corner desk in my childhood bedroom playing Descent II. It was probably the first video game I had ...

In 2001, Microsoft's former CEO— Steve Ballmer— was quoted by the online tech news publication, The Register, saying: Linux is a...

During my undergrad in architecture, one of the things that most excited me was the opportunity to work in a fabrication shop. At the time, my school had a mode...

When people are actually reading your blog, it might crash! Over the span of a couple days, this website got 8000+ unique visitors to the Signs of Life post— I ...

From Vi to Vim to Neovim, here are some useful tips for shortcut enthusiasts, terminal geeks, and serious software engineers alike....

Some microcontrollers are used together to form single-board computers (SBCs). These are computers on a single chip!...

Developer operations (DevOps) is an important aspect of software engineering. Here are some of my notes and other useful DevOps tips....

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 older, corded, and often uncooperative...

As a software engineer or systems administrator, you'll want to know how to set up a BASH environment and configure an editor like Vim....

More and more accounts of people (often programmers) using the KB structure to store frequently referenced information led me to begin building my own....

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 transfer photos from a digital camera t...

The Boston Freedom Trail is a major tourist attraction for exploring many of the important monuments and sites of our nation's early history. My collaborators (...

You've probabaly seen the incredible kinetic artwork of Theo Jansen. In 2007, a TED video was released featuring the Dutch artist's Strandbeest— ...

Empathy… involves a lot of respect towards others… a tolerance to otherness without the projection of our feelings onto others, without stealing t...

You shouldn't be allowed to have nice things when you forget your phone in your swimsuit pocket— not once, but twice! The first time was a Motorola Razr....

Love Bernie's platform of student loan forgiveness? How could he actually achieve something like this?? Take a look at his bill....

Abstractions is a kickass Web developement conference started in Pittsburgh. This was only the second Abstractions ever!...

Livestream and discussion as we follow candidates through the Democratic Debates....

Blogs?? That's right. You haven't time-traveled. We're 19 years past the turn of the millenium. People are giving up their writing to Medium, leaving ...

Together with Sam Piecz, I co-founded a web application for visualizing personal financial data and test-building portfolios. Since 2016, I worked as a designer...

FM radio headphones were given out at the door. Each set was tuned beforehand to receive a broadcast from my programmed station. Visitors were then invited to w...

Nearly a decade ago, Facebook pioneered the concept of social media. However, it wasn’t until recently— as the platform boasts 2.1 billion users&...

In the previous post, I took a quick look at Cass Sunstein's #republic— particularly, at the mechanisms of online polarization. I'm also empathet...

Nicco's class Media and Journalism in the Digital Age is centered on what we're forced to loosely refer to as "news", or perhaps "news media". We talke...

Last year I wrote a first draft of a paper, The Internet of Anxiety, which essentially documented the growing pains of the universe of information and ...

In 2014, The New York Times released an internal innovation report (since leaked to the public) on how a shifting— increasingly mobile and social...

In The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, the closed curtains typically shrouding the inner-workings of campaigns are drawn op...

In the previous article, I took a look at David Karpf's Analytic Activism— examining how political campaigns have reacted to a hybrid me...

At times, public domain renders itself as a physical environment— perhaps a park, or plaza. Conceptually, though, it has no explicit point of ref...