Computers built for linux that come with linux, because i'm getting kind of sick of corporate OSes. but am I $2400 sick of them yet?
Hit the hotkey you assign, the app will take a screen shot of your screen, OCR it, and then allow you to quickly search for text anywhere on the screen and then click on it. It's more amazing the more you use it.
The complete catalog of Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations. These were colors put together from observation of nature, not what was traditionally done with just trying to use the color wheel and science to force color combinations.
Cut perfect dado cuts without a dado blade. seems easier than the router table setup I was trying to do.
Simple insert that connects into your table saw so you can use it as a router table; might be easier than my current router table?
Daily Logic Puzzle Game; follow the clues to figure out who is innocent and who is guilty.
Some people probably think they can just not enable the internet on these devices, but as these speed runs continue, these corporations are going to start installing cellar modems to extract everything they can from you without you being able to stop it.
search for drum patterns and hear/see them with their interface.
Roast 250F for 15min (after pre-heat) can do a dozen eggs at a time.
If you make a lot of eggs, much easier than some of the other options.
I'm not sure why the bandcamp website is so ugly and hard to use, but this plugin for firefox allows you to download your music. (shift select works) I bought the Brian Bell megapack and it's 800 songs that bancamp expects you to downloaded individually, this plugin allowed me to shift select them all and download them all at once like a normal person.
the printer no corporation would ever make. the same I've been finding about all the applications I've been having ai write for me. corporations are unable to make good products, they can only make products designed to screw you over for money. crowdfunding good ideas might be the last place to find good products.
This one stands out from others because of how easy it is to pose the figures. for some reason posing must be a hard problem to solve since the other apps I've tried kind of suck at it.
I find this interesting, because I have the same thing for all my projects and ideas. And once you have all your stuff in once place you can start write fun automations around it, like maybe look for a website folder under every entry, and use that to create an entry on your website.
Create and render robots in blender. I've taken one of his other courses audio visualizer master class and it was really good.
now the entire control room is just 1 ipad that requires a $20 a month subscription to use.
I just need to make a simple cut over and over, there was probably a better way, but I bought some spacers and I'm going to use them with a sled to cut out the part I need.
How to make your own waxed canvas.
Lots of guitar soloing going on here, and he has made a LOT of songs.
It has what I want: Hotspot, bluetooth, messaging. that's about it. No constant updates, hopefully not a lot of spying for marketing reason, no liquid glass...
The Subaru crosstrek has 176 lbs of dynamic (moving) carrying capacity on the roof rack.
Good video on leather stitching that makes it easy to see what he's doing.
Video that explains how to figure out the key and chords of a song by playing scales until you figure out the key of the song, and then playing bar chords to figure out the chord progression of the song. I created a companion app here for practicing figuring out the key and chords of a song.
An interesting article would be seeing a side by side comparison of "good" photographers and everyone else. My guess is you would find that the "good" are the people that can find interesting subjects and not just background images.
The author goes through the process of blocking out a piece and then going in and adding detail. Follow along with this nifty ASCII art editor
I stopped using my apple watch for the same reason; I didn't need to be notified all day along about missing "potential spam calls" I really didn't need to be notified about anything, so now I wear an expensive Casio watch.
One other thing I hate is the experience of buying things. Back in the day you gave people money, they gave you a product and the transaction is complete. Now they want you to sign up, get constant emails, and in some cases track your physical location everywhere you go (crumble cookies does this.)
I just want to try the woodbending trick at the beginning, also the way they cut circles on the router table is neat.
Wondering if it would be easier to have the cnc cut all of the grooves, or just use a table saw sled to do it real quick.
I have a HX-Stomp "emulator" and I used Claude to read the article and then give me the settings on the HX-Stomp that are close to what he was saying. What would be super nice if I could load a music clip of someone playing the guitar and then have the Stomp just figure out all the settings automatically, but I guess some of this comes back to playing with sound, and you just need to figure out these settings by playing with them.
Some day (soon) i'll need to learn how to sharpen things correctly...
the Beatle's style, along with a bunch of different chord progressions and melodies to play with.
Crazy frog is the pinnacle of human music creation, learn how to make your own version of crazy frog songs (at the end of the video.)
Concept design, art, and other fun stuff.
stop relying on symbols and start relying on observation (don't just copy)
this head drawing class also covers the importance of seeing the head as planes/shapes.
Creating a simple custom jig to cut any size dado you want.
I believe this technique is also how mynoise plays their sounds using the same fading trick.
A nomogram or nomograph is a diagram that provides an easy, graphical way of calculating the result of a mathematical formula
python library to make them.
I was kind of hoping it would go into the thinking behind the idea more, but it was still interesting to see what goes into writing a research paper.
music is more than notes, it's playing with sound. learn how to play with sound in Ableton.
A jig for bending wire; I think I just like watching wire bending videos, especially the cnc ones that just go nuts at it.
A playlist of tutorials on how to sketch designs.
using parts of a car to make a table, which just got me wondering what other parts of a car could make for a table/lamp/chair...etc
How to render wood texture with pencil.
here is another one, that seems to be more for industrial design.
How to render different types of materials using copic markers.
Building notes that you plan to use and grow; not taking notes for the sake of taking notes.
One day, I decided to become an optimist and life became much more fun.
A monitor that can change modes, which I think goes beyond work from home or not. Just sometimes you need to use the computer and sometimes you don't, so just being able to quickly switch the monitor to a different mode to let your brain think differently is great. I also like that the second mode has a bookshelf under it to reinforce that you are in a different mode.
Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all. It’s not a life commitment, it’s just the way you do things. For now.
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I meal prep lunches every week
instead of eating random food with little value because you end up getting tired of trying to figure out what to eat, just build meals that you find healthy; your style becoming a person that eats healthy food.
Cost per use
Don't buy cheap things that don't last; buy more expensive things that last a long time (which seems to be getting harder and harder to do.)
This documentary profiles internationally-renowned architect and engineer, Frei Otto. Half a century ago, Otto became world famous as a pioneer in the design of tensile structures made from metal armatures and lightweight membranes. Otto’s work includes the Mannheim Multihalle, the Munich Zoo Aviary, the 1967 Montreal World Expo German Pavilion and co-design of the 1972 Munich Olympics Stadium.
the works of Antoni Gaudí
The natural world is a library of solved problems. A tree trunk thickens at its base and its roots spread wide to resist wind and carry its own weight. A skeleton uses hollow bones to achieve maximum strength with minimum material. A seashell grows in a logarithmic spiral, a pattern of expansion that maintains its proportions at every scale. For Gaudi, these were not just beautiful shapes to be copied for decoration. They were demonstrations of profound structural intelligence, blueprints for how to build with efficiency and elegance.
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Think with Your Hands, Not Just a Pen
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Traditional architecture has long been a discipline of two-dimensional representation. Buildings begin as plans, sections, and elevations, flat drawings that are later translated into a three-dimensional reality. Gaudi worked in the opposite direction. He was a sculptor of space who thought and designed in three dimensions from the very beginning. His workshop was filled not with blueprints, but with plaster, clay, and wire models. He believed that some problems of form, light, and structure could only be solved physically.
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Super simple (but functional?) desk that just leans on a wall. might make for a fun drafting table?
Basic introduction to freecad. Hopefully as I learn to use it better it gets less finicky.
This link wasn't what I found interesting, but I want to make something like this that has the Radar & Satellite Images on it, so you can see the storms rolling in.
I think I need to pair it with this trash can project to light up which days I need to put out which trashcans.
He added a little "send me a quick message" widget to the bottom of each of his pages using https://ntfy.sh/ to send the message to his phone. Seems like a neat idea.
there is also TownSquare which adds a little town square to the bottom of your website.
A periodic periodical that takes a look into interesting opensource projects and applications.
Issue 4 has an article about the freecad Detesselate workbench which allows you to work on STL files, which is something I've always wanted a cad program to do well. I haven't tested it, but sounds like a good idea if it works.
Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
My favorite part about this magazine is the one article == one page. I wish everyone would adopt this style of writing; instead of meandering with no point what-so-ever to fill page after page with gibberish nonsense, you are required to actually have an interesting idea, and present it in one page. I feel like a lot of articles on the internet don't actually have an idea, and try to cover that up by ~~turning up the radio~~ just writing a lot and hoping the reader don't notice.
I like the pre-computer rendering techniques used to make these.
The overgrown ruins is also nice.
Cycloid Drawing Machines . I used to Claude to build out a simple virtual version of one of these, and now I'm trying to find an interesting way for the axidraw to render the output in a way that just a laser printer couldn't just do.
Class on how to do master studies to learn how to pen and ink better from Chloe Gendron who's youtube channel has a lot of these master studies already. I'm hoping to get a better understanding of how to do master studies so I can transfer that to other places like learning music better or just the drawing of dynamic shapes.
One of the first references that I liked was the art of Mark Silvestri, and she already had a breakdown of his style
Create Broken tv effects, might be interesting to add to a project to add texture.
Interactive page to show how all the parts of a mechanical watch works.
I've always been interested in converting spring power into something else, guess I should just get a spring and play with it to see if I can make something: spring steel or just get a pre-rolled spring, or toy windup spring
the mechanism is a cylindrical cam it's cut at an angle or in a curved/zig-zag path around the cylinder. As the cylinder rotates, the angled groove pushes the follower up and down, converting rotary motion into reciprocating linear motion.
for $0.50 in Claude, i was able to get an openscad script that is able to generate a cylindrical cam of any size, i'll need to design the housing to see how it works, and then post it on my site.
Extensions are optional add-on tools that run alongside Live and can be accessed with a right-click from anywhere in your Set. They can read and edit the structure of your Set – including tracks, clips, parameters, automation and more.
Control Albeton Live via javascript. going to have to play with this to see what ideas I come up with.
The initial concept is kind of interesting, take a smart light bulb and make it a web server that hosts banned books, but then at the end he has a more interesting idea; take smart lightbulbs and have them become a mesh network.
Another question would be, how hard is it to hook in an SD card or any other type of storage to remove the small space constraints. Maybe it's time for me to go buy some light bulbs.
Seems like people have already had the mesh idea
I really like the petal mechanism, how each compartment is able to open without blocking the others.
I like stickers. The site is like all stickers! Fun reference for when you don't know what to doodle in your sketchbook.
I ask this question every few months, so I'm just saving this link here.
But don’t spend your life waiting for permission. Start the thing
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What you pay attention to shapes what you think about. What you think about shapes what you do. What you do shapes who you become. So be careful.
Anytime you need to do something more than twice, spend the minimal time possible asking Copilot CLI to automate it. Don't write out a spec or give details or provide examples. Let it try to figure it out. Maybe it will fail, oh well, it is only a tiny bit of time spent, and then you can check where it failed and ask it to correct it.
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Through this process, I also learned that automation allowed me to change how I worked, not just speed up my work.
I've been finding this out a lot lately, when you lean into AI, you find new ways of working; instead of thinking about how to implement, you just start focusing on the ideas you had. Instead of thinking, that'll be too much work to change, or procrastinating implementing a feature to test out and idea, you just use AI and do it, and start using the new feature.
"Copilot, read my Copilot session logs from the last 7 days and propose opportunities for automation. Draft a reusable skill for each."
I've always wanted something to watch my terminal session and do this for me. How can I vim better? how can I shell better? what tools are out there I don't know about that'll speed up my workflows. This would be a great (maybe a tad creepy) AI app. It just watches you work and then suggests ways you could improve your workflows.
What I’ve come to understand - and never really articulated to myself before - is that research creates its own momentum. The more time I invest in a decision, the more I start to feel like I should buy something, if only to justify all the effort I’ve already put into researching it.
I feel this way about ideas, you scribble down an idea, draw something in your sketchbook, and then you brain is like "YOU MUST NOW MAKE THIS THING". Calm down brain, I'm just exploring ideas here. Sometimes I don't explore ideas because of this; feeling like I have to build something if I spend the time researching/designing it.
Back to the actual article. My other problem with buying new things is Enshittification. I just don't want to deal with the lower quality version they made this year. I don't like buying stuff anymore, it usually just turns into work, frustration, and disappointment. The last time I found shoes I liked I bought 4 pairs, because I realized each year they would make these shoes cheaper and cheaper. At least Enshittification makes it easier to save money.
All I need is for the screen to pop up when I'm backing up for the backup camera, and then go away until I backup again.
I'm not sure if this is the message the article was trying to convey, but it seems to come off as: Vibe Coders are the people that have ideas, they build up their ideas with prototypes and experiments built via AI agents, while the Software Engineer is not the idea person, they are just there to implement code in a clean way. An analogy would be the architect that designs a beautiful building as opposed to the workers that take that design and then follow building codes to frame the house, or wire the electrical.
At the end of the article they do say the same person should be able to switch back and forth, being both the prototype person and then implementer, and maybe going forward that is the skill set you want to have to stay relevant.
A Library of video game / Chiptune music with a built in player for the web browser.
a cartulary was a medieval collection of important documents, charters, letters, and records that institutions preserved for future generations. A historical record.
Maybe all of these robots they are building to clean your house and answer your door can be repurposed to scan in documents; I can hand the robot my sketchbook, and it'll page through scanning and tagging each page in a digital format somewhere; a glorified scanner.
At first look, this table seems kind of pretentious, but then when you think about it, the idea is pretty ingenious. I think the image at the brewery was the selling point for me, since when you are in a place like that you are standing and there isn't a lot of places to put your drink or food, so if the brewery gave you trays that clip on, and your drinks sit in the middle part, you have a great way to hold your food without having to try and juggle it standing.
These might be kind of nice outside of food trucks, or at outdoor events.
Another Idea I had, was using something like this to make toolboxes that can be converted quickly into work spaces. the toolbox contains the materials and tools, and then you attach legs (standing or sitting), and connect multiple boxes together for longer surfaces. Create tables and trays that can connect on to the boxes so you can mix and match what you need and quickly setup a work environment for a specific task.
"Radical simplicity is at the heart of our approach," Frascella says. "We achieve clarity by reducing everything to the essential. We live in a world that is often shrill, fast-paced, and overloaded. Almost everything is overdone. The danger of losing your way is greater than ever. Our responsibility is to be better and do what really matters. And the outcome always has to be an emotion."
I like the Idea of Radical simplicity in car design. I remember back when I was a kid, cars had no screens in them; that was nice, I kind of wish we could get back to that kind of radical simplicity.
I think my main problem with displays in cars are they are slow to start, and are just used to advertise crap; why am I forced to have a Pandora icon on my display, are they even still in business? Maybe a Radically simply display in a car is one with only the features you have, and goes away or turns off when not in use.
A post about prototyping out functionality as opposed to just trying to build something from ideas / consensus / meetings... etc. Just build something and use it and see where that goes; make it easy to fix and change; add and remove as you find use cases through the use of the product.
When building something I always want to jump to the pretty end state, but really the best way to design a product it to build a janky prototype and use it every day; adding and removing features with actual use, not just ideas that something might or might not be good.
This article shows how the push went from just a pile of parts, to the final product you see today.
