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A spinner flips around a circle of the logos of Linux distributions. The Mac OS logo peaks out from a corner.
Dis­tro Hop­ping
07 24 2025blog
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 ...
codeLinux
Elekta's megneto-enchephalography (MEG) machine— a large crescent-shaped chair capable of recording the electromagnetic impulses of an organic brain.
Cod­ing with Vibes
04 03 2025blog
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...
codeculture
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...
codeculture
Screenshot of code in a terminal with a grainy look— like a picture of a CRT
Ter­mi­nals
02 03 2025kb
This documents some of the most popular terminal emulators— commenting on the speed and features of Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm, and more....
codesysadmin
The Ghostty terminal logo on a gradient background
Ghost­ty
07 27 2025kb
Ghostty is a terminal emulator written in Zig, designed for speed and modern features like ligatures, undercurl, and image support....
codesysadmin
Next logo centered over a background of formatted code
Next.js
02 01 2025kb
In this page I share my experience using Next without Vercel hosting— and its associated costs ($$$), instead hosting on a generic VPS....
codesysadmin
Neovim
Neovim
01 04 2025kb
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...
codesysadmin
An abstract representation of a force-directed graph— colorful nodes and connecting lines
Graph
01 01 2025page
A force-directed graph of nodes and edges which visualizes the relationships between articles (blog posts and knowledge base) and their tags....
culturecode
Lines of gibberish text overlaid atop a background of multicolored vertical stripes.
LLM
12 21 2024kb
Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be powerful way to interact with digital information in a conversational manner....
codesysadmin
A handsome portrait of the developer and author of the Loosed Blog, Daniel Tompkins.
About
01 07 2024page
What is l-o-o-s-e-d.net? Learn more about Dan Tompkins, the architecture school graduate developing and writing for this private lifestyle/tech blog....
culture
Picture of a laptop screen, showing some code that uses a modern, high-contrast color scheme.
What I Use
06 19 2023page
Check out my gear and let me know in the comments what you're using!...
electronicsculture
Picture of a laptop screen, showing some code that uses a modern, high-contrast color scheme.
Knowl­edge Base
06 19 2023page
The index of the Dan Tompkins' personal knowledge base, zettelkasten, or wiki. Discover the rare curiosities of the Loosed knowledge base here....
electronicsculture
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 recognized across operating syste...
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 you turn the key, and ... nothi...
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 probably the first video game I had ...
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, saying: Linux is a...
Linuxcode
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 visitors to the Signs of Life post— I ...
sysadminLinux
The Vim and Neovim logos juxtaposed together against a Matrix-y style / glitch-art background.
Vim
08 19 2020kb
From Vi to Vim to Neovim, here are some useful tips for shortcut enthusiasts, terminal geeks, and serious software engineers alike....
codesysadmin
A close-up photograph of a silicon chip. It's a microcontroller with jumper cables and header sockets.
Mi­cro­con­trollers
08 07 2020kb
Some microcontrollers are used together to form single-board computers (SBCs). These are computers on a single chip!...
codeelectronics
Colorful shipping containers being stacked in a grid by yellow cranes.
De­vOps
07 07 2020kb
Developer operations (DevOps) is an important aspect of software engineering. Here are some of my notes and other useful DevOps tips....
codeLinux
The Docker symbol— a blue ship, similar to a whale, with shipping containers atop.
Dock­er
02 18 2025kb
Notes on Docker (and Docker Compose)— the popular containerization platform for building portable application images and containers....
codeLinux
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 older, corded, and often uncooperative...
DIYrobotics
Two screens on a desk, featuring cyberpunk terminals in an anime illustration style.
En­vi­ron­ments
06 07 2020kb
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....
codeLinux
An open book with colorful bookmarks atop the open pages.
Book­marks Dump
05 24 2020page
Exactly what the title says! I'll try to keep this page going with an updated dump of my bookmarks. You can export yours too— the tutorial's screenshots are out...
DIYelectronics
A loose overlap of two grids of lines. Some lines start to wriggle free of the grid and forge together like roots or bundles of wire.
In­tro­duc­tion
05 07 2020kb
More and more accounts of people (often programmers) using the KB structure to store frequently referenced information led me to begin building my own....
codeculture
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 transfer photos from a digital camera t...
media artDIY
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 artist's Strandbeest— ...
electronicsrobotics
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! The first time was a Motorola Razr....
electronicsDIY
A grid of shelves containing hundreds of books.
Archive
10 08 2019page
Find all the previous Loosed blog posts together on one page!...
culturecode
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 ever!...
codedesign
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 writing to Medium, leaving ...
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. Since 2016, I worked as a designer...
codebusiness