Mastodawn

Printed a very basic quick-and-dirty 3D model of a guitar pickup cover that clips onto the pickup bobbin, to make it easy to swap out covers without needing to remove the strings or pickups. Got lucky with the first try. Looks pretty good, I think! #3dprinting #diy #maker #guitar

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Toby Kurien Mar 17

I built a simple #DIY #oscilloscope and logic analyser using a #RaspberryPi Pico. It uses the pico-sigrok firmware, so I can capture and decode signals using sigrok on a laptop. Tested it by adding a basic analog frontend and then playing a guitar note through a tube overdive pedal and the results look quite good!

Toby Kurien Feb 15

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding - “People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence." -- Jeremy Howard #ai

fast.ai https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

fast.ai - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

Toby Kurien Feb 1

First prototype of my #diy #handheld #cyberdeck powered by a #RaspberryPi Zero. Unlike my previous tablet designs, this one is aimed at low power for extended battery life, focussing on command-line use. It will be used mainly for reading ebooks/websites, e-mail, SSH, note-taking and some coding fun. It could work well as a #writerdeck too. It has a 2000mAh battery under the keyboard providing 13 hours of continuous reading time. Next I need to design and print a cover… https://tobykurien.com/post-1769934638

Toby Kurien Jan 24

Fun weekend #diy #maker project: Pi Zero Tiny computer! I was curious about how low power I could go with a #RaspberryPi Zero 2W with a super power-efficient (but puny) screen. I had a Waveshare 1.44 inch LCD HAT lying around, so I looked up it's chip and found an Adafruit driver that seemed close enough. I looked at the schematic of the LCD HAT to see which pins where connected where, and thought I'd give the following a try in config.txt (betting with myself that… https://tobykurien.com/post-1769257911

Toby Kurien Jan 15

Frontend Dogma Jan 15

Just the Browser, by @corbin.io:

https://justthebrowser.com/

#websites #browsers #chrome #google #firefox #mozilla #edge #microsoft

Mozilla Firefox configuration - Just the Browser

Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.

Just the Browser

Toby Kurien Jan 14

I've written an "Ode to elinks" on my #Gemini capsule before, and I recently stumbled upon this great article that goes into more details and reasons why #elinks is one of the best text web browsers out there. Excellent for when you want to access information from a #RaspberryPi Zero or other low-powered device.

Dion Moult https://thinkmoult.com/using-elinks-browse-web.html

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Toby Kurien Jan 5

The Mastodon web interface is so sluggish on a #raspberrypi 4 that I decided to write a quick-and-dirty lightweight CGI script to display just the content and links to media (deliberately avoided embedding previews). Now I can read my Mastodon feeds anywhere in comfort, even on Netsurf or w3m.

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Toby Kurien Dec 26

"It seems that my default consumption speeds for reading and eating (and maybe everything else) reduce the rewards of those things significantly, undermining the point of doing either."

raptitude

https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/

Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High

I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most ...

Raptitude.com

Toby Kurien Dec 24

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet! This is quite the rabbit hole...

fmhy.net https://fmhy.net/

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