John's useless tinkering

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

This is the after-lunch part 😃

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

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

fixing file saving / loading

Resuming the session with (hopefully) fixed audio.

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