Maker Hacks / chrisg (@makerhacks) - STEMGeeks

Maker Hacks / chrisg

www.makerhacks.com

York, England

Maker and blogger from Calgary 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 [RPG/D&D/Wargaming, Art, 3d printing, arduino, raspberry pi, robots, laser engraving, CNC, programming, Retrocomputing ..]

6 days ago

LLM-Assisted Debugging Rollercoaster Forget Vibe Coding, Bots Are for Bug Squashing For the last couple of weeks I have been experiencing software development synchronicities of the most horrible kind.…

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14 days ago

The LLM Middle-Ground I've got a lot of friends who would like me to change my position, and for good reason, but I am neither an "AI hater" nor an "AI lover". There is a lot to dislike about these…

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2 months ago

How to talk to your family about AI The UK government has decided to spend a fortune on promoting AI to the masses, and they are not exactly impartial. If you have family or friends adopting "AI" tools, make…

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4 months ago

The “Joys” of Original Retro Hardware For the full nostalgic computing experience, original hardware, preferably plugged into a CRT screen, is the ideal. But as with most ideals, that experience

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4 months ago

It’s easier than you think to build yourself a custom keyboard Not saying it is easy , just easier than you think I am converting a ZX Spectrum keyboard into a USB keyboard using a Raspberry Pi Pico. It's been a lot easier than I…

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5 months ago

Remote Control Your Android Device Give old Android phones or tablets a new life via remote control Do you have old phones or tablets knocking around your house? At this point I think most of us have at least o

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5 months ago

Instead of Opening Up PostgreSQL to Remote Connections, Do This Use your SSH credentials to create a secure tunnel to your database TL;DR, here is a shell script. Enjoy! #!/bin/bash

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5 months ago

I finally switched away from the default Mac terminal app and you might want to too "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." If you've been working with command-line…

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5 months ago

British parliament just mentioned Doom WADs and Kaizo Mario romhacks E-petition debate relating to consumer law and videogames - Monday 3 November 2025: The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to consumer law and videogames.…

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5 months ago

Personalise Your Chrome Browser Experience with Scripts Ever wanted to hide or highlight things on web pages that you do not own? Well - You can! For a long time I was using a heck of a lot of browser extensions, until I discovered…

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