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Took the boat out for a motor cruise around the harbor a week ago. A February first!
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A personal server in the cloud with AI that actually does things — my honest review after a month.
The shed is nearly complete. What started as a simple shed to store some tools, turned into a pool house. If there was one specific thing that was accomplished during 2020; at least on the home front, it would be this shed. It’s a 10×12’ gabled roof wooden building that sits off the ground and…
As spring nearly arrives, I thought it was a good time to upgrade my desk, get some more standing time in — and treat work as a task: get it done, and get away from it. The standing desk seems to already set that in motion for me. Went all out with the Uplift desk…
The snowfall was decent in NY and NJ. Unfortunately, I didn’t do the preseason checks of my Ariens slow blower. I had bad gas in the tank and lots of gunk in the carb. Started to clean in; and while doing that we had some kids pop by looking to shovel. Gave them the job…
New project · spin.truman.net
A browser DJ studio. A cozy DJ room in the browser: two Tru 1200 MK3 controller decks and a Nova 9000 mixer with BPM sync, key lock, hot cues, loops and beat FX. There’s a Tru Beat drum machine and sampler, a mic with Daft Punk-style robot voice FX, and live radio (WBGO, WQXR and more).
A browser DJ studio. A cozy DJ room in the browser: two Tru 1200 MK3 controller decks and a Nova 9000 mixer with BPM sync, key lock, hot cues, loops and beat FX. There’s a Tru Beat drum machine and sampler, a mic with Daft Punk-style robot voice FX, and live radio (WBGO, WQXR and more).
A retro SGI IRIX-style desktop in your browser. A personal project running since 1998: a working terminal, games and a music player on a nostalgic IRIX desktop. Built partly for my kids.
An anime-guided options-trading tutorial for kids. A beginner guide to options written for a 13-year-old, led by the anime guide Nova. It walks through real SPY examples, with quizzes along the way.
A public TDP-43 research tracker. Follows the drug pipeline, clinical trials and new papers on TDP-43, plus nightly explainer videos.
