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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

E-Begging Back in the early days of blogging, since before it was called that, there was a strong community distaste for "monetization", aka earning money from your creations. That…

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7 days ago

Gobblin Procreate Drawing Quick video showing my drawing process. Lately I have been trying out Procreate on the iPad using a stylus. I am not fully comfy with it but I discovered it automatically records…

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9 days ago

software-development

Slopportunities or Robot Fren? My social network has been split pretty much 50-50 recently, most glaringly on LinkedIn but it is starting to creep into others such as the retro games community. The split is…

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20 days ago

software-development

30-Year Freelancing Anniversary and Domaining Re-upping my hoard of domains every year costs a fortune, even after transferring them to a cheaper domain registrar, because I have so many. I've even let a lot lapse over the…

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4 months ago

Claude is both the best and the worst Oh Claude why? WHY? Claude managed to fix something very complex for me that I, as a human, thought was impossible for me to fix. But it has taken days because…

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4 months 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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4 months 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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6 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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7 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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8 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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