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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
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
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
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
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
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. At the time, my school had a mode...
DIYfabrication
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
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
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 feelings onto others, without stealing t...
media art
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
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 station. Visitors were then invited to w...
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 platform boasts 2.1 billion users&...
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 online polarization. I'm also empathet...
culturemedia art
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-workings of campaigns are drawn op...
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, though, it has no explicit point of ref...
Internetpolitics