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From QED to Neovim

From QED to Neovim, this blog post unveils the history and evolution of the digital text editor. Modern systems require a meth...

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

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

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

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

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!...

electronics culture

What is l-o-o-s-e-d.net? Learn more about Dan Tompkins, the architecture school graduate developing and writing for this priva...

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

electronics culture

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

DIY electronics

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 ...

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

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

The Hug of Death

When people are actually reading your blog, it might crash! Over the span of a couple days, this website got 8000+ unique visi...

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

Microcontrollers

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

code electronics

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

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

Microfactory 01

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...

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

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— ...

DIY electronics

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

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...

Rosie, the Roomba Remix

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

electronics robotics

Hot Tub Phone Repair

You shouldn't be allowed to have nice things when you forget your phone in your swimsuit pocket— not once, but twice! T...

electronics DIY

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

Abstractions II

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

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...

Killing a Startup

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