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an ssg written in shell

Notes on writing this site's new, mildly cursed, and fun static site generator in (mostly) POSIX shell. Inside a small POSIX SSG What do? How work? loop? getting metadata comrak sed… side-by-side images image titles become captions media autodetection assets without relative-path hell “wow, that’s a lot of non-standard markdown functionality!” building the post tags, counted and weaponized…

jelly star and the universal android debloater

I experience, review, and debloat my new Unihertz Jelly Star, the world's smallest Android 13 smartphone. My phone The Small J… context comments on size battery life camera internals unlock ’n more Review Debloat making uad work on wayland using uad outcome S’all

sonshi-style external keyboards with systemd

I set up a python systemd service to disable my internal keyboard when an external one's connected.

ds-store and dotfiles on mac and in finder

quickly stopping macos file-hell

2010s cybershot dummy battery

I made a dummy battery to let me use my 2010 Sony DSC-H55 Cybershot camera with a power bank.

routing markdown for a single-page blog

A blog post about how my single-page and dynamic, GitHub-based javascript website works. My simple GitHub-based JS SPA blog Structure Greeter JS Content JS the other repo render absolute URIs updating It’s Not Amazing

doin' it all with 555s

For April First, a guide to replace everything with 555 ICs.

advent of code 2024

I did this year's Advent of Code. I enjoyed it.

simplest python othello bot goes demented

A post about a short and greedy python bot that plays othello for a competition. And another...

golway72: a conway's game of life trinket

About a torus led matrix game of life plaything I threw together.

zippermau5, my micromouse

A post about ZIPPERMAU5, a WIP micromouse robot using a custom pcb, teensy 4.1, brushed dc motors, and time-of-flight sensors.

rfgy24: the tryhard's trap

A competition I recently participated in for which I didn't see the easy way. Simple Robotics Competition Traps Tryhard challenge prelims v2 finals out

quick mc mod version switching from the shell

A quick and easy shell script so many find themselves needing.

blon bl-03 in a sentence

A single-sentence post expressing my intense love for my new IEMs.

fg305: helping a computer mouse lose weight

An extreme 3d-printed mod for the Logitech G305 that reduced its weight to 29 grams.

makeshift touch sensitive led matrices

A small demo of using fast-flickering LED matrices and LDRs for coarse touch sensing.

trying out selenium with llms

About a small LLM python interface I made to try Selenium.

lm386 noodling: fart synth

While messing around with an LM386 audio amplifier, I made a fart synthesizer.

linuhs: starting to follow lines

I made a line follower for a competition. Linuhs hardware software structure testing competing looking back and ahead specifically

mazebeetle: an attempt to micromouse

About an initial small and heavy maze-solving robot I made.

minimate: on the shoulders of companions

Small write-up for a companion robot I made for a competition.

qlock: a max7219 led desk clock

About a 3d-printed RTC and LED matrix desk clock I made.

kida: to make a quadruped

A post about a janky robotic insect I made.

carros: teaching motor driving and arduino

Three simple robot cars for learning.

building my first computer

I built my first computer.