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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...

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...

A force-directed graph of nodes and edges which visualizes the relationships between articles (blog posts and knowledge base) and their tags....

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

Check out my gear and let me know in the comments what you're using!...

The index of the Dan Tompkins' personal knowledge base, zettelkasten, or wiki. Discover the rare curiosities of the Loosed knowledge base here....

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....

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...

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....

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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....

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

Find all the previous Loosed blog posts together on one page!...

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...