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kevinlynagh.com
I design and build things. Mostly software, sometimes furniture, and a few small buildings once. American in Amsterdam.
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My free, minimalist Mac speech-to-text app now transcribes even faster. Ever since I started talking to my computer, my typing (~130 WPM) feels slow. Talking also feels more relaxed and exploratory, which is useful when designing new stuff. github.com/lynaghk/whis...

Find someone who cares about you as much as Apple cares that AirTag holders fit perfectly. (From developer.apple.com/accessories/...)

Newsletter: 3d-printing a TV stand, making bright office lights, and thinking about graph-directed autocomplete kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2...

Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years. If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏 If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!

> The laser unit is autonomous and will continue shooting salmon lice as long as it receives electricity, even if Internet access is broken. www.stingray.no/delousing-wi...

Reading about superellipses and ran into an offhand reference to "squigonometry". I assumed it was a joke, then I found the Wikipedia page and a Springer textbook. I still can't tell.

Me: I wonder how DIY keyboards are going since I goofed with them during the pandemic? (kevinlynagh.com/keyboards/) Them: We compiled a BRep CAD kernel to WASM so you can generate complex keyboard geometry in your browser. Also you can scan your hands using computer vision. (ryanis.cool/cosmos/)

Functions accidentally relying on global variables, CAD edition.

Need a fun holiday activity? Consider Reversibly Sticking Metals and Graphite to Hydrogels and Tissues. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

CHO cells originate from 20 Chinese hamsters evacuated from Nanking in 1948, avoiding "roving bands of communists" on an 11-hour station wagon trip driven by a physician "armed with a bottle of brandy, a book of common prayer, and my old .45 Colt" biomanufacturing.org/uploads/file...