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rough draft 3: you are going to have to do it alone you are the only person who can swim under the iceberg
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rough draft 2: falling in love by being radically honest chapter 2 is where we realize it's not a normal book about productivity
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posted: August 29, 2024
Farewell to Arkansas St a farewell letter to the best apartment I have ever had
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posted: July 01, 2024
A quick teardown of the NES Zapper Lightgun A quick teardown of the NES Zapper Lightgun, mostly as a love letter to the geniuses who built this and a girl I will always love
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posted: April 26, 2024
shouldibreaknocontact.com I have too much money, and I like to buy novelty domains
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posted: March 28, 2024
How to add Currently Playing to your homepage A code snippet to add a last.fm based currently playing section to your personal site
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posted: February 05, 2024
rough draft 1: is it possible to start anywhere that isn’t the beginning? essay 1 - should we even get started?
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posted: February 02, 2024
Poetry Publishing my personal poetry writing. Last updated 10/14
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posted: November 22, 2023 (Updated: 10/14/2024)
Shirtbot It's a slack bot that makes shirts
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posted: August 01, 2021
I feel stuck in the the engineering for engineers trap If you aren't an engineer please read this and reach out, I'd love to chat
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posted: June 20, 2021
Unwritten Coding Standards: Function Ordering A standard for how you should order functions in files to increase the consistency of your code bases
Technology
posted: May 15, 2021
Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups I made a custom guitar with hot-swappable pickups
Project
posted: May 02, 2021
How to design a motherboard for your electronics project - Part 2 Designing a motherboard for your project is a great second step when developing an electronics project. This is the guide I wish existed when I got started doing this.
Technology
posted: April 25, 2021
How to design a motherboard for your electronics project - Part 1 Designing a motherboard for your project is a great second step when developing an electronics project. This is the guide I wish existed when I got started doing this.
Technology
posted: February 21, 2021
Caffstat Beta Caffstat is the first Hackable Home Thermostat
Project
posted: February 20, 2021
v2 Updates to my HomeKit Thermostat Making my thermostat project into something I can actually use every day
Project
posted: December 31, 2020
Building my own HomeKit Thermostat Built a custom HomeKit enabled thermostat, because I was fed up with the walled gardens of Nest
Project
posted: December 27, 2020
Unwritten Coding Standards: Vertical Whitespace Simple vertical whitespace rules that will make any code easier to read
Technology
posted: May 27, 2020
Relationship Bootstrap Front-loading all the things I love and would inevitably tell you about anyway
Personal
posted: May 24, 2020
Scalability Dimensions A few words on how you should order parameters to maximize codebase consistency and scalability
Technology
posted: May 20, 2020

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Good morning dear reader, my name is Mike. I am a Engineer / Entrepreneur living in the SF Bay Area. I love working with smart people to solve hard problems. This blog is more on the personal side, and is designed as an outlet for some of my more personal projects.


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