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An image of the Tidal Cycles logo with a colorful waveform background.
Tidal Cy­cles
10 23 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
Notes and resources on Haskell and the Tidal Cycles REPL, and integrating it with Neovim....
codemedia art
An image of the popular Benchy 3D model, often used for testing 3D printers.
3D Print­ing
10 20 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
Notes and resources on 3D printing, including various printing technologies, popular printers, slicing software, and tips for successful prints....
codeDIY
Pixelated black and white image of a diagram with a hand inserting filament into the hotend of a Creality Ender 3 Pro.
En­der 3 Pro
10 20 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
Notes, tips, and tricks for using, maintaining, and upgrading the Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer....
codeDIY
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 2025blogDaniel Tompkins
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 2025blogDaniel Tompkins
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 2025blogDaniel Tompkins
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 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2025pageDaniel Tompkins
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 2024kbDaniel Tompkins
Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be powerful way to interact with digital information in a conversational manner....
codesysadmin
Gif of me clicking the middle and right switches on a black foot-pedal with 3 switches total
Vim Clutch
05 21 2021blogDaniel Tompkins
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
Screenshot of the "Regolith" Linux distro running graphically through the X windowing system on WSL2 on Windows 10.
WSL2
11 21 2020blogDaniel Tompkins
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 2020blogDaniel Tompkins
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 2020kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2020kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2020kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2025kbDaniel Tompkins
Notes on Docker (and Docker Compose)— the popular containerization platform for building portable application images and containers....
codeLinux
Two screens on a desk, featuring cyberpunk terminals in an anime illustration style.
En­vi­ron­ments
06 07 2020kbDaniel Tompkins
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 2020pageDaniel Tompkins
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 2020kbDaniel Tompkins
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
Pope flicking holy water from an aspergillum
Hot Tub Phone Re­pair
10 15 2019blogDaniel Tompkins
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
Gif of Abstractions conference swag, conference map, and Centipede highscore.
Ab­strac­tions II
10 08 2019blogDaniel Tompkins
Abstractions is a kickass Web developement conference started in Pittsburgh. This was only the second Abstractions ever!...
codedesign
A grid of shelves containing hundreds of books.
Archive
10 08 2019pageDaniel Tompkins
Find all the previous Loosed blog posts together on one page!...
culturecode
Screenshot of the original CorrelatePro homepage (no longer active).
Killing a Start­up
06 09 2019blogDaniel Tompkins
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

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