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Made a Macropad

 A few months ago I wrote about making my first wireless keyboard. That was just a proof of concept that I disassembled right away. I then made another keyboard: the RoMac macropad. I've ordered a kit from 42keebs -  apparently one of the very few keyboard-related shops that don't charge an arm and a leg to deliver to Europe. I chose this kit because it was cheap (~9€), compatible with the choc switches I wanted to try out (because they're less tall), and compatible with the Pro Micro-style contr...
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Good idea: You should take more screenshots

 I stumbled upon this blog post today. Its central idea is simple: along with your various digital projects, archive screenshots of them as well. They tend to stay readable even after many years, which is not always true for all digital artifacts. I have been doing this for a long time, though I have never thought about doing it systematically, so I don't really know how much of my stuff is covered. I just like keeping track; so especially when I made any visual changes to something, I made a se...

Ten years in a hundred posts

 The previous post was the hundredth I've posted to this blog. They took ten years to write. That might sound like "not a lot" to put it mildly, but that's okay - I've started this blog as a scratchpad, a place where I can put things when I feel like it, a place where I can try to get better at formulating coherent thoughts in English. I think some reminiscing and some introspection are in order. That approach to the blog hasn't changed much, but my ideas about blogging in general have changed...
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Diablo Immortal

 I've played Diablo Immortal and was ready to like it. It wasn't bad, but it kind of fell flat....
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Typora vs. MarkText

 My comparison of two good Markdown editors....
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