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A neighbor recently donated an old Samsonite hard case that is large enough to fit some of my folding bikes perfectly.

I recently picked up a dirt cheap copy of the Quadrillion puzzle game in great condition for the kids only to find that it was missing a piece.

Cloudflare (CF) recently expanded their offerings within the Workers AI product.

tl;dr Like Googling, LLM prompt engineering is a basic skill that will become indispensible to personal and professional projects as LLMs become more entrenched in our computing activities.

If you’ve ever had trouble printing large images and documents properly on MacOS, read on!

If you need to use serial ports created by Serial-to-USB (S2U) adaptors in MacOS with your Windows apps running in Wine, you’ll need to map them so that Wine can correctly detect and use them.

As part of the reverse engineering effort for the Bookman Archive, I uncovered the pinouts for the ROM cartridges of the Bookman systems.

A bit of history Franklin Bookman devices were early eBook readers with plug in ROM cards that distributed (mostly) reference content.

KiCad is the open source standard for PCB design and these days a prerequisite for cheap professional PCB manufacture.

The Bookman Archive has moved to BookmanArchive.com.

10 Easy Steps to being the coolest sysadmin in 2005 Ever wonder how complicated it would be to do some casual Linux administration from a mid-2000s PocketPC device?

As part of a Dell Axim PDA bundle, I came into possession of this curious Dell Navteq BT-332 Bluetooth GPS Receiver that I’m planning to use with an offline OSM app on a laptop (something normally without a location sensor).

When the local coronavirus restrictions were enacted early on this year, I was determined not to let this time go to waste.

My holiday project of implementing a Sierra AGI web runtime is coming along nicely.

Holiday projects in the 2020 season were extremely plentiful owing to the local COVID-19 lockdown measures.

The end of year winter season is a time when many of my family and friends celebrate their birthdays.

The name comes from the first thing I tried to recreate within it: the NASA worm logo.

Pandemic lockdown had most of the neighborhood occupied with indoor activities this year.

Over the summer, my obsession with micro-folding bikes came to a head when an auction alert notified me that an original Sinclair Research A-Bike Mk1 was listed.

The Dahon PrestoLite is a 16" (ETRTO 305mm) wheeled folding bike with the geometry of a Moulton Mk3 constructed mainly out of aluminium.

I’ve always favored peculiarly sized versions of everyday things (for instance, my small-wheel bike obsessions), so when Verizon paired with TCL to release a tiny 3.3 inch Android “companion” phone in November 2018, I kept a close watch on where I might be

After releasing the GHLiveBLE tool, there were a number of hardcore Clone Hero enthusiasts who were curious to find out the poll rate of the GHLive bluetooth guitar controller.

Ever since we visited the National Videogame Museum, my wife and I got more and more into Guitar Hero style rhythm games.

Jersey the Channel Island Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, located in the English Channel between England and France (but closer to France).

The Chorlton Wanderers are a local social cycling group riding out of Chorlton Water Park, who do a social ride once a month.

What follows is a collection of notes I compiled for setting up my current (as of 2019) 3D printer.

The CarryMe is a folding bike with an incredibly small wheel size of 8 inches manufactured by Pacific Cycles.

Friday night Pho is one of our house traditions.

During 2012, I had access to TechShop SF, a makerspace in San Francisco which is sadly now defunct, I took several courses that taught FDM 3D printing basics.

I’ve been using Preact as my alternative (API compatible) React of choice for a few side projects for a while now, the main advantage being the API compatibility with a significantly smaller sized addition to dependencies.

As a way to learn the MacOS Cocoa API and Swift, I set out to write a MacOS system tray app that would provide IBM Model M “clicky” keyboard sound effects whenever the OS detected a key up or down event.

While block indentation alignment (1) is enough for most people, I believe further alignment formatters, especially tabular or “vertical” alignment (2) tools, can greatly help in reducing the time it takes to visually process details in code: // (1) const…

This post is a Celestial Combat devlog and also be found here.

This post is a Celestial Combat devlog and also be found here.

In my childhood, I used to move around a lot.

This post is a Celestial Combat devlog and also be found here.

This post is a Celestial Combat devlog and also be found here.

I’ve used rim plugs (“Veloplug” is a brand of rim plug) in 3 separate bike builds and they have been worthwhile as a rim tape / strip alternative.

Broken LED lights 2 years ago I bought two inexpensive LED bike lights which both ended up broken after some use.

My daughter is approaching the 6 month mark.

The IOW Randonnee was fantastic this year.

A coding font called Dank Mono showed up in my programming feed recently.

I’ve long been interested in 360 panoramic photos and videos and being a patient tech consumer, I was fortunate to get the 2016 Gear 360 camera for the low price of £80 shipped; 22% of the original launch price of £350.

The result so far Here’s a video demo of I was able to achieve with this reverse engineering effort:

These cheap bluetooth gamepads are often branded and sold as remote shutter buttons for smartphones.

If you’ve done everything you’ve known how to get a Raspberry Pi Zero W (v1.1) to work but can’t get it to boot up and recognize the Wifi, there’s a chance you may have a defective board.

I’ve been obsessed with the design lineage of the Moulton bicycle ever since I got my first small wheeled folding bike: Bessie the Brompton.