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John's useless tinkering

Tinkering on projects that will likely not go anywhere, but we're having fun with anyway! 😃

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  1. undead_unix

    There's a rather deep mastodon thread that preceded this video - if you feel like unrolling it: https://mastodon.linkerror.com/deck/@jns/117277758300433910

  2. motif menu bug

    Monitor layout: xrandr --output DP-0 --off --output DP-1 --off --output HDMI-0 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x900 --rotate normal --output DP-2 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x900 --rotate normal --output...

  3. motif/cde/4dwm/whatever borders in aweseomewm

    source: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/my_window_decor.lua

  4. The process of creating a Spirit Board (some of it, anyway).

    This video shows some of the stuff involved in creating a Spirit board. Unfortunately, I did not end up filming a lot of the finishing. Whenever things go a bit wrong and I go into trouble-shooting mode, I always forget to start filming 😃 (esp...

  5. Popsicle sticks... truly the universal crafting tool!

    The drag chain in our co2 laser would keep popping up whenever the tension of the cables within it was a bit too high, which would then cause it to slam into the camera built into the enclosure lid. Got tired of having to fix this, so I solved a...

  6. Pascal for webdev? Actually quite reasonable!

    The web is a cesspool of disgusting corporate excrement, and as such, when I needed a web-store the only reasonable option seemed to be to write one from scratch. I hate web development with the fury of a thousand suns, so I decided to make it...

  7. Honeywell terminal IRC client

    Wrote a little irc client for the honeywell terminal. Works alright! 😃

  8. Engraving Slates

    It's kind of a cliché at this point, engraving slates. Everyone who owns a laser seems to be engraving slate coasters. But that's because they are kind of neat. The source material is relatively cheap and the results are usually pretty good as ...

  9. CO2 laser shenenigans

    In this video I disassemble & clean my Monport Onyx R2 CO2 laser, go over the modifications I made, and do a bit of a dive into the Ruida protocol that controls it. Accompanying gopher post: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2025/20250922

  10. VCFMW 19 (2024)

    A (very) small collection of brief clips from vcfmw19 (2024).

  11. Projectors are fun

    Attempting to re-upload this, as the original seems to be messed up on toobnix.

  12. Game Development live stream - 3/20/2024, 7:44:40 PM

    live-chat is on irc: Server: irc.libera.chat, Port: 6667 (plain text) -or- 6697 (TLS), Channel: #eternal

  13. Eternal game engine update: reflections & prb + vertex normal debug view

    In this update I show and explain how reflections and pbr is done in the engine, and demo the new vertex normal debug view.

  14. Eternal game engine update: normal maps & ambient occlusion

    Quick little update on the game engine progress. Implemented loading normal maps & ambient occlusion.

  15. Game Development livestream, recorded on 2/28/2024, 8:49:21 PM

    Things that were covered during this live stream: Went over some of the changes in the engine/, Started work on exporting a 3d mech asset with animations into the engine using the latest blender 4.1, trying to navigate around changes in the...

  16. live gamedev session #4 (part 3)

    This is the after-lunch part 😃

  17. live gamedev session #4

    Live game dev session on the Eternal game engine. Don't really have a plan for this one, we'll see how it goes!

  18. Pinnacle DEKO fast action keyboard driver for FreeBSD

    Acquired a fun keyboard. Wrote fun kernel driver to match. Sources: https://linkerror.com:11175/jns/dekodrv/src/branch/main

  19. live gamedev session #5

    fixing file saving / loading

  20. live gamedev session #4 (resumed)

    Resuming the session with (hopefully) fixed audio.

  21. thr_kill()

    Yes, I know it means thread kill - I apologize for nothing! 😃

  22. weird signal

  23. More satellite fun...

    Improved my dish setup slightly from the grill situation 😃 Several signals can be found. You can see it doesn't take much movement to get a completely different set of signals. I also did a full rotation in the end so you can see how things l...

  24. signal_grilling

    Attached the dish to the cctv camera rotor, seems to be handling the load well. I didn't have a proper stand, and I had to elevate the thing, so I just used what was on hand,... a grill and some pallet wood.

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Tinkering on projects that will likely not go anywhere, but we're having fun with anyway! 😃

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