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Software dev, tinkerer and hobby hopper. Existence is pain.

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I kept hearing voices in our walls so I had to rip them open

Our house was originally built in the 1890s and I think the kitchen was a later addition, but not exactly sure on that. One of the walls in the kitchen has been showing signs of water damage of some sort from day 1. crumbly wall left, take a deep close

Designing and Printing My First 3D Model

My friend Jacob very very kindly gave me his old 3D printer and I've been having a blast with it. I quickly became addicted to dialing in the settings, progressed to getting decent prints and at that point any time spent not printing was time wasted. Albeit I&

AWS CodePipeline events via MQTT – with Tailscale support

🔗 npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/codepipeline-mqtt-notifier-cdk-construct 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/nkorai/codepipeline-mqtt-notifier-cdk-construct TLDR; what the title says: AWS CodePipeline events via MQTT, optionally with Tailscale support, vended as a CDK construct. I've recently been working on a couple of side projects in AWS that are

Trying out hügelkultur with our homemade compost

Roz and I have been composting for the last 2 years thanks to a compost bin left behind by the previous owners of our home. We have primarily been using it as a means to reduce food waste going out to landfills but haven’t had the motivation to

Making some art frames for my buds

I’ve been getting into a woodworking sub-hobby lately: making frames for photos and art. I was able to score a second hand mat board cutter and am slowly building up my skills. Here’s my very first attempt, before I had access to a mat board cutter

Building an adjustable router dado jig

I'm about to embark on a woodworking project that I've had in mind for a long time but haven't prioritized - until now (or actually soon-ish). It's a baking tray (and other kitchen things) organizer for a wire rack in our kitchen.

2 recent small projects

I wanted to share a couple of recent small projects I finished up and their in progress pics too! Leather Flask Holder The first one is a leather flask holder I made as a gift. I individually stamped out each of those pattern marks and the hand stitching on this

Some CX suggestions for Carvana

Background I've recently had to start commuting to work again for the first time in around ~5 years - I've been working remotely for the bulk of that time and prior to that I was lucky enough to walk to work for bit. I gave the

Building a Twitch Chat Plays Game - Snake

I streamed building this game on Twitch, throw me a follow if that is something you are interested in: https://www.twitch.tv/sadboifeverdreamz If you want to skip all the narration you can go straight to the source code for the project: https://github.com/nkorai/TwitchPlaysSnake Background Ever

Going 3D with OpenGL

So far in my adventures with OpenGL I have more or less been kludging things together, albeit following some great resources to do the kludging. I decided to really start following and learning through one of these resources, as I have a project in mind that I want to build

Improving my workspace

Building a workbench and improving the lighting in my office!

Making a concrete coaster

Follow my journey as I struggle bus through making a concrete coaster in the hopes of one day pouring some concrete flower pots.

Gradients, animation and more fun with OpenGL

Continuing on the theme of my previous OpenGL post , I wanted to share some notes on more OpenGL experiments I tried my hand at. In this round I wanted to setup a sort of playground for me to be able to simply create new directories and start writing some code

Prepping and smoking 8 racks of ribs!

I've always wanted to prep a large batch of something and this was a great opportunity to do it! Smoked on our Weber Smokey Mountain 22-inch.

Backyard cleanup, cooking burgers and putting together a grill!

Cleaning up our backyard with a new tool: a Milwaukee M18 Fuel leaf blower. I think I get why people buy a bunch of tools now, its pretty nifty. We also grilled some burgers for the 4th of July on our smoker - Weber Smokey Mountain 22 inch - before