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2025 14

  1. Tidal Cycles | Loosed Knowledge Base
  2. 3D Printing | Loosed Knowledge Base
  3. Ender 3 Pro | Loosed Knowledge Base
  4. Ghostty | Loosed Knowledge Base
  5. Dis­tro Hop­ping07 24 2025blogDaniel TompkinsAs a kid, Windows and macOS were the only consumer-ready operating systems that I knew existed. I started on Windows 95, and didn't have an understanding about the underlying differences in kernels, filesystems, and user interfaces. I started playing with
  6. Cod­ing with Vibes04 03 2025blogDaniel TompkinsDictating is often a lot faster than typing, especially with sophisticated transcription tools. Because of its logical structure, code is a lot harder to dictat...
  7. Streaming | Loosed Knowledge Base
  8. OBS | Loosed Knowledge Base
  9. From QED to Neovim03 09 2025blogDaniel TompkinsFrom QED to Neovim, this blog post unveils the history and evolution of the digital text editor. Modern systems require a method to precisely select, input, and...
  10. Docker | Loosed Knowledge Base
  11. Terminals | Loosed Knowledge Base
  12. Next.js | Loosed Knowledge Base
  13. Neovim | Loosed Knowledge Base
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2024 3

  1. LLM | Loosed Knowledge Base
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2023 2

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2021 3

  1. Vim Clutch05 21 2021blogDaniel TompkinsHacking together a Vim Clutch from the foot-pedal control of a dictation machine. Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi 0 be recognized across operating syste...
  2. Cars and Fish04 19 2021blogDaniel TompkinsFar too many of us have been in the same gut-wrenching situation. You're late. The doors slam as you rush into your car. Then you turn the key, and ... nothi...
  3. Re­golith Lin­ux02 04 2021blogDaniel TompkinsWhen did you first use a computer? I remember sitting at the corner desk in my childhood bedroom playing Descent II. It was probably the first video game I had ...

2020 12

  1. WSL211 21 2020blogDaniel TompkinsIn 2001, Microsoft's former CEO— Steve Ballmer— was quoted by the online tech news publication, The Register, saying: Linux is a...
  2. Mi­cro­fac­to­ry 0210 14 2020blogDaniel TompkinsDuring my undergrad in architecture, one of the things that most excited me was the opportunity to work in a fabrication shop. At the time, my school had a mode...
  3. The Hug of Death08 27 2020blogDaniel TompkinsWhen people are actually reading your blog, it might crash! Over the span of a couple days, this website got 8000+ unique visitors to the Signs of Life post— I ...
  4. Vim | Loosed Knowledge Base
  5. Microcontrollers | Loosed Knowledge Base
  6. DevOps | Loosed Knowledge Base
  7. Mi­cro­fac­to­ry 0106 16 2020blogDaniel TompkinsIn high school, there was no shop class. Sometimes I'd work on a project in the garage with my dad. Most of his tools are older, corded, and often uncooperative...
  8. Environments | Loosed Knowledge Base
  9. Bookmarks Dump
  10. Introduction | Loosed Knowledge Base
  11. warTOR05 06 2020blogDaniel TompkinsOddly, I don't remember when or how I got my hands on the Toshiba FlashAir card. These WiFi-enabled SD cards are made to transfer photos from a digital camera t...
  12. Freego01 12 2020blogDaniel TompkinsThe Boston Freedom Trail is a major tourist attraction for exploring many of the important monuments and sites of our nation's early history. My collaborators (...

2019 10

  1. Rosie, the Room­ba Remix12 20 2019blogDaniel TompkinsYou've probabaly seen the incredible kinetic artwork of Theo Jansen. In 2007, a TED video was released featuring the Dutch artist's Strandbeest— ...
  2. In­hab­it­ing an Oth­er11 20 2019blogDaniel TompkinsEmpathy… involves a lot of respect towards others… a tolerance to otherness without the projection of our feelings onto others, without stealing t...
  3. Hot Tub Phone Re­pair10 15 2019blogDaniel TompkinsYou shouldn't be allowed to have nice things when you forget your phone in your swimsuit pocket— not once, but twice! The first time was a Motorola Razr....
  4. De­mo­c­ra­t­ic De­bates10 08 2019blogDaniel TompkinsLivestream and discussion as we follow candidates through the Democratic Debates....
  5. Ab­strac­tions II10 08 2019blogDaniel TompkinsAbstractions is a kickass Web developement conference started in Pittsburgh. This was only the second Abstractions ever!...
  6. Bernie's Bills10 08 2019blogDaniel TompkinsLove Bernie's platform of student loan forgiveness? How could he actually achieve something like this?? Take a look at his bill....
  7. What the Blog?07 02 2019blogDaniel TompkinsBlogs?? That's right. You haven't time-traveled. We're 19 years past the turn of the millenium. People are giving up their writing to Medium, leaving ...
  8. Killing a Start­up06 09 2019blogDaniel TompkinsTogether with Sam Piecz, I co-founded a web application for visualizing personal financial data and test-building portfolios. Since 2016, I worked as a designer...
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  10. Signs of Life01 18 2019blogDaniel TompkinsFM radio headphones were given out at the door. Each set was tuned beforehand to receive a broadcast from my programmed station. Visitors were then invited to w...

2018 8

  1. Pub­lic In­ter­net05 02 2018blogDaniel TompkinsNearly a decade ago, Facebook pioneered the concept of social media. However, it wasn’t until recently— as the platform boasts 2.1 billion users&...
  2. Pub­lic Do­main04 27 2018blogDaniel TompkinsIn the previous post, I took a quick look at Cass Sunstein's #republic— particularly, at the mechanisms of online polarization. I'm also empathet...
  3. A Re­pub­lic, If You Can Keep It04 25 2018blogDaniel TompkinsNicco's class Media and Journalism in the Digital Age is centered on what we're forced to loosely refer to as "news", or perhaps "news media". We talke...
  4. The New News04 11 2018blogDaniel TompkinsLast year I wrote a first draft of a paper, The Internet of Anxiety, which essentially documented the growing pains of the universe of information and ...
  5. Mr. Ba­quet, Tear Down this Wall03 28 2018blogDaniel TompkinsIn 2014, The New York Times released an internal innovation report (since leaked to the public) on how a shifting— increasingly mobile and social...
  6. Shoe-Leather Pol­i­tics03 11 2018blogDaniel TompkinsIn The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, the closed curtains typically shrouding the inner-workings of campaigns are drawn op...
  7. Whole Cit­i­zens02 18 2018blogDaniel TompkinsIn the previous article, I took a look at David Karpf's Analytic Activism— examining how political campaigns have reacted to a hybrid me...
  8. Pub­lic Cit­i­zens01 31 2018blogDaniel TompkinsAt times, public domain renders itself as a physical environment— perhaps a park, or plaza. Conceptually, though, it has no explicit point of ref...

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