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Dovetailed trays for the toolbox

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Synchronicity, Chapter 3: Bootloop

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The Keyboard Build Part 3: A quiet conclusion

Book Dragon is Reading

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Book Dragon is reading - Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley

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Synchronicity, Chapter 2: 35 hours earlier

Book Dragon is Reading

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Book Dragon is reading - Dark Empire by Tom Veitch, Cam Kennedy, Todd Klein, Jim Baikie, and Lois Buhalis

PinePhone: A real, open source, Linux-compatible smartphone

Book Dragon is Reading

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Book Dragon is reading - Dark Empire by Tom Veitch, Cam Kennedy, Todd Klein, Jim Baikie, and Lois Buhalis

From fire to rain

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Is it a trap?

character diary

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Lin Hai's Journal - 8

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Teaching a cat to fish

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32Blit unboxing and first impressions

character diary

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Lin Hai's Journal - 7

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Synchronicity, Chapter 1: Failure

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The annual check-in post

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Deploying to DigitalOcean k8s from Gitlab.com

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The Keyboard Build Part 2: Firmware and keymap

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The Keyboard Build Part 1: Research, design, assembly

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Toolbox build #3: If it works, it works

Corporate Culture

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Is your conference policy equitable?

Web Development

Three ways to curate posts in Drupal 8

The handheld pi assembled as a single unit in a cardboard box

Handheld Rasberry Pi, part 2: A cardboard case, Xorg fixes

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Toolbox build #2: Paths taken, paths not taken

A dry-fit of the major pieces of the boolbox, with tools laid out inside

Toolbox build #1: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

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Handheld Raspberry Pi, part 1: If at first you don't succeed

Web Development

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Broken backs and body-flounders: Building eschergirls.com

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Better late than never (BLTN) reviews: Child of Light

Media Roundup

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A ramble a week late

character diary

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Lin Hai's Journal - 6 [Dragon Lecture]

Writing Automated Tests in Drupal 8, Part 4: Kernel tests

Writing Automated Tests in Drupal 8, Part 3: Unit tests

Writing Automated Tests in Drupal 8, Part 2: Functional tests

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