Kevin Lynagh's website
- Posts
- 81 from 28 Jul 2016 to 29 Oct 2026
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- monthly (8 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 7
- LLM programming and theory building
- Multitouch UI, remote microcontroller flashing, LLM task workflow
- KiCad helpers and caliper improvements
- Structural diffing in Emacs; deterministic agent harnesses
- On sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
- Easy VM sandboxes for LLM agents on MacOS, Miami & Paris travel
- Tools I loved in 2025
2025 7
- Pindakaas party, plywood problems, and CNC daydreams
- A constraint language, bedframe, and air handling trouble
- Powered respirators, print catalogs, layout concepts, visiting NYC
- A flatpack bed, survey of 2D CAD tools and conceptual models
- How do you prototype a nice language?
- Towards the cutest neural network and dubious ideas for a code CAD language
- 3d-printing a TV stand, bright lights, and graph-directed autocomplete
2024 6
- Making electronic calipers
- A weekend transcription app and art wall
- Inventory software, useful LLMs, haunted stm32, casual modeling, minimalist workouts
- Saving health for later: On hardening arteries
- Building a floating castle (standing desk)
- CNC joinery, modular electronics, Rust frustrations, two book reviews
2023 6
2022 8
2021 10
- Adorable tiny magnet x/y motion platform
- Millifluidics, by way of a spin-coater and programming language
- Microfluidic labs on the cheap
- Decarbonization and the energy transition
- I'm back in America; what's next?
- Designing flexures
- How fast can plants grow; computer sandboxing
- Concluding keyboards, fabrication notes, enjoying Zig
- Computer problems
- Reflections on important work
2020 11
- Protein folding solved, cheap solar, gearbox innovation, and lasers
- Online retail empowerment
- A brief keyboard update
- Engineering spreadsheets and the Internet of aircon
- Hedging tail risk, emigration, keyboard superoptimization
- Luxury input devices + the thin client dream
- Keyboard updates: "It is a hard but worthy work"
- Ergo travel keyboard, rethinking the desktop, 28 hours to "hello world"
- Pandemic edition
- Robots, embedded Rust, $2,350 keyboards, and Iranian P/E ratios
- Analog circuits, long-term memory, and first aid tips
2019 9
- Excel, oscilloscopes, and real-time Rust.
- Drawing apps, robot saws, and alligator farms
- CNC computer vision updates + pairing ideas
- Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668?
- CNC + computer vision + keyboard industrial design
- Travel + nomadic living tips; Makin' chairs
- Deep learning, VR, and other hot things from 2016
- Relational database GUI; diving into assembly
- Tiny two-headed worms and wholesome bioinformatics Twitter
2018 8
- Fast CLJS Hiccup compiler; MiniZinc shipping puzzle; Nomadic living advice
- A coding puzzle, Kraków, cellular agriculture
- Publishing my notes, table design, Amsterdam, ClojuTRE
- Slacking over email, solve brainteasers w/ Alloy, watch Kevin code
- A 7,220 char regex; Statechart playground; Greetings Edinburgh
- Rust logging; Kindle computing; Greetings Manchester!
- A fast Electron app w/ Rust; Greetings Wellington NZ
- 16 milliseconds or bust: Can I make a responsive software?