June 8, 2017
Lost Town Of Belgium

Scout and I made this stop-motion short film.

How we made it:

  • We used an old Android phone with one of those $10 phone tripods to take each frame.
  • We flipped through the stills in Ristretto by hand, recording the output with RecordMyDesktop.
  • We used avconv to convert between formats.
  • We used Audacity to record the audio.
  • We used OpenShot to edit the video.

May 31, 2017
A Smart Alternative to `watch make`

watch-make is a script that rebuilds your project only when make detects it needs a rebuild, for example when source files change.

Features:

  • Works with any existing Makefile based project.
  • No dependencies apart from make.
  • Passes any arguments to make (such as -C mydir).
  • Silent if there is nothing to build and does not swallow output when there is.

I wrote it in response to this Stack Overflow question.

The source code is hosted on GitHub.

Install it

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chr15m/watch-make/master/watch-make > ~/bin/watch-make
chmod 755 ~/bin/watch-make

Full source code

#!/bin/sh

while true;
do
  if ! make -q "$@";
  then
    echo "#-> Starting build: `date`"
    make "$@";
    echo "#-> Build complete."
  fi
  sleep 0.5;
done

May 8, 2017
The 2017 Situation

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No point crying!

-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

March 5, 2017
Lonely Robot

Simple line sketch of a robot walking in a natural scene.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-- Thoreau, Walden

Feb. 17, 2017
Xmas Geodesic

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Over the Xmas holiday my friend Fenris and I built this geodesic dome (actually a truncated icosahedron) out of corrugated plastic sheets and gaffer tape.

It took about 4 hours over two sessions of cutting and then taping.