Val Packett

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I’m Val Packett ( she / her ) from Buenos Aires , Argentina 🇦🇷 and purple is my natural hair color (:

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Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE

2023163 points119 comments Hardware & Electronics details

I made a custom split mechanical keyboard! Because it's me, this involved things like contributing to a PCB design tool and discovering a ridiculously optimized way to read a keyboard matrix.

TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids

2023122 points34 comments Tools & Productivity details

Oops, I think I just turned the legendary personal wiki system into an offline-first, installable, encrypted, synchronized Progressive Web App

Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

2025116 points17 comments Tools & Productivity details

A port conflict pushed me to abolish container port forwarding once and for all, making my Firefox talk to Podman's whole network. Also: containerizing dev environments for command-line addicts.