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Designing a Prototyping Board in KiCad: From Breadboard to Perfboard and Fab

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A complete workflow for designing perfboard prototyping layouts and custom PCBs in KiCad, covering 2.54 mm pad arrays, bus distribution, 3D color-coded jumper wires, and the dual-board fabrication pipeline.

27 August 2026

How I Write My Dissertation in Obsidian (Without Losing My Mind)

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A full end-to-end workflow for writing your dissertation in Obsidian: importing sources into Zotero and building literature notes, inserting inline citations while writing, and exporting a clean PDF with Pandoc.

29 June 2026

Sync Obsidian to iCloud on macOS, Automatically

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Setup automatic sync on iCloud for an obsidian vault using rsync and launchd.

01 June 2026

The Medium Is the Instrument: How McLuhan Gave Me a Theory for My Hands

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How a conversation about McLuhan unlocked the theoretical framework behind the Haptic Console — from cool media and the audile-tactile to actants, assemblage, and what it means to build an instrument that pushes back.

13 May 2026