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Today I want to show you a watch modification that I've been working on. I'm calling it the Data Runner, and it's another F91W mod, this time going the extra mile to make something functional and nice looking.
I spent way too long figuring out the how to make video calls feel natural. Here’s the best advice I came up with.
I have been using the Julia REPL as my day-to-day calculator on the command line for more than a year now. I am surprised that I haven’t seen more posts talking about how powerful and extensible the language is for simple numerical calculations and scripting In fact, the Julia REPL is much more than a simple…
In order to get something done, maybe we need to think less.
Learn how to setup and use VSCode as an IDE on Google Colab and Kaggle.
I wanted to make a font based on my handwriting using only free software. It turns out that FontForge can be scripted with Python. I know just a little about Python and even less about typography, but I managed to hack together something that worked for me. If you're reading this on my blog at…
Cronopete is a Linux clone of Time Machine, the backup utility for Mac from Apple. It aims to mimic it as closely as possible.
It all started out innocently enough. You experimented with it once or twice in your first year of college, but Nano and Pico were easier—closer to what you had already been using during high school on the Windows machines and Macs. But as time went on and you got more experience under your belt in the college-level…
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
Debugging without source or symbols, alternatively, "Where there's a will there's a way"
I'm writing this post in what Google is euphemistically referring to as an improvement . I don't understand this. I managed to ignore New ...
You know what I want? I want my own private server, to run my own private software, and I want everyone else to have one as well. Let me explain:
This page does not exist (anymore). Back to home
The keyboard is done! This is basically the result of what I've been working on for the past 2 months, which has involved 3 iterations of testing machines, over 100 printed switches, and now finally a keyboard that I can type on. Unfortunately it is not a very good keyboard, but you can't win them all.
I can no longer sync iOS’ Contacts with my macOS Catalina’s Finder (the iOS sync portion of iTunes is now built into the Finder in macOS Catalina); the OS insists I’ve iCloud configured for Contact...
I often want to start similar workspaces in tmux; for example I always want to tail those two log files in a pane , or I always want to start both vim and mysql in a pane, etc.
From Vim To IntelliJ In the beginning, a love affair For the last 10 years or so, I have been a die-hard Vim user. I was introduced to Vim…
Ennui (pronounced on-wee ) is chronic boredom that involves weariness, apathy, dissatisfaction, and lack of fulfillment. Some people experience a general sense of ennui in life, whereas others experience it in a specific domain, like their hobbies or work. For example, someone might experience ennui when it comes to a…
A detailed tutorial to start a blog with Hugo: write posts in Markdown, pick a theme, and deploy your static site for free on Netlify, Vercel, or GitHub Pages.
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
Org Mode HTML output can look like this webpage, but as its [[http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.co...
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
VSCode Debug Visualizer is a VSCode extension that allows you to visualize data structures in your editor
The Pinebook Pro is a 14" laptop built for developers and Linux end-users. It weighs less than 3lbs, which, in my case, replaces a two times heavier
