Toby Kurien

Web Rendering Proxy is a way to browse modern websites on #retro #vintage or just outdated gear.

Instead of using a #firefox fork like #librewolf I found a way to wrangle Firefox to work the way I want, right out of the box!

My weekend #diy #maker project: a compact, battery-powered #guitar practice amp which is meant to be paired with an effects pedal.

Over the years I got friends and family to install #Telegram to chat to me, as I refuse to use #WhatsApp (ever since Facebook bought them).

Small weekend #3dPrinting #diy #maker project: adding corner protectors for my solar panel so I can take it camping.

When it comes to #computer #programming I firmly believe that making it human readable is one of the most important things you could do.

After a year and a half of daily driving #GhostBSD (which I love and recommend), I moved to base #FreeBSD on a new desktop machine.

Like the illustrated and animated watch website posted earlier, this is another beautiful exploration of some great #mechanical #engineering in everyday products.

A story in 3 photos.

Printed a very basic quick-and-dirty 3D model of a guitar pickup cover that clips onto the pickup bobbin, to make it easy to swap out covers without needing to remove the strings or pickups.

I built a simple #DIY #oscilloscope and logic analyser using a #RaspberryPi Pico.

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding - “People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence." -- Jeremy Howard #ai fast.ai https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

First prototype of my #diy #handheld #cyberdeck powered by a #RaspberryPi Zero.

Fun weekend #diy #maker project: Pi Zero Tiny computer!

I've written an "Ode to elinks" on my #Gemini capsule before, and I recently stumbled upon this great article that goes into more details and reasons why #elinks is one of the best text web browsers out there.

The Mastodon web interface is so sluggish on a #raspberrypi 4 that I decided to write a quick-and-dirty lightweight CGI script to display just the content and links to media (deliberately avoided embedding previews).

It seems that my default consumption speeds for reading and eating (and maybe everything else) reduce the rewards of those things significantly, undermining the point of doing either. raptitude https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-…

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The new iteration of my #DIY #RaspberryPi #Linux #tablet looks great, in my opinion!

Besty gifted me his #diy #printrbot #3dprinter that he's honed to perfection over the years, and I've been having a lot of fun learning to use it!

Design for 3D-Printing - this blog post is an incredible wealth of information for anyone designing or printing 3D printable parts, but it really appeals to the engineer with it's technical details and illustrations. #3DPrinting #CAD Rahix' Blog https://b…

I've been working hard on my Bubblewrapped Services (BWS) tool for self-hosting services on Linux.

YouTube channel recommendation: YouTux is a Linux and tech channel with thought-provoking intellectual critiques and analyses around open source and tech.

I finally found a smartphone that's smaller than 6.7 inches!

Ten years ago I contributed code to the F-Droid app store.

An entertaining essay by one of my favourite authors, Neal Stephenson: In The Beginning Was The Command Line (1999) #book #recommendation Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/stephenson-neal-1999.

I'm currently testing a #Mobian kernel patch to improve battery life on the #PinephonePro and it's looking promising (about 3 hours of continuous use instead of 1 hour).

#Mobian for #PinephonePro has been steadily improving.

This isn't mentioned on their website, but Zorin OS now allows you to install to a ZFS-on-root encrypted and compressed drive!

Whoa, too many vulnerabilities are surfacing in sudo lately!

After trying various #Ubuntu #linux flavors on my old laptop with only 4Gb of RAM, I needed to find something lighter that didn't use up more than half my RAM, but I still wanted disk encryption and working hardware keys and trackpad.

My TV died!

I've made some useful updates to my #freebsd #sandbox script.

I've been working on porting #FreeBSD to the #PinePhonePro and happy to report that I am releasing a developer build that you can try out!

Ok, so check this out.

I got #X11 running on the #PinephonePro under #FreeBSD !

Oh wow, the #FreeBSD #Linuxulator is just magic!

Here's one way to deal with #AI #bots and #scrapers hammering our websites: set up a trap.

I built this #RaspberryPi based 7-inch #diy #tablet a while back and it's been my daily #linux #mobile #computer since.

Today I'm releasing my super simple #FreeBSD #Sandbox script.

This is a talk has so much of wisdom for people who want to maintain their health and cognitive function as they age (not just programmers).

Oh dear, #Firefox is adding some scary looking "terms and conditions" and "privacy policy".

Episode 39 of the #postmarketOS #podcast is one of the best podcasts I have listened to in a long time!

If you want to protect your devices and online communication from prying eyes, data brokers, and AI scrapers, check out the security in-a-box site for comprehensive guides.

The Reticulum network is an amazing design for networking that requires encryption, avoids a "source address" for connections ensuring privacy, mediates flow-control by the destination (avoiding DoS attacks), has only a few bytes of packet overhead making…

Clear some time, grab your favorite beverage and immerse yourself in this wonderful interactive experience of what it was like to be in Persia.

Progress!!

My latest project has been mentioned on the FreeBSD quarterly update!

After several years of pondering moving to BSD, I finally switched my main desktop from Linux to GhostBSD.

Recently, I learned that the Macbook Air laptops do not have glued-in batteries!