The other day, my good friend George Costakis brought up his interest in Meshtastic, a 915MHz comms network. Meshtastic had been floating around my periphery for a while, and the idea of joining a node network that could bridge my house to George’s sounded pretty cool. Cue my hyperfixation! Hands On At first, I overnighted a Heltec V3 just to play with. It became very clear, almost immediately, that the all-in-one kits for $20 are pretty much worthless without additional parts. ...

I figured it was time to refresh my social media presence in the gig space (LinkedIn) and I realized I’m usually the guy behind the camera. Not only that, but now that I have two kids, I just don’t have the time to set up a photo shoot for myself. So I did what any responsible American did in the year 2025, I turned to ai. I did a little bit of research of the many many many ai headshots websites that are out there, and really couldn’t sift out what was good what was bad. Ultimately I ended up just following a reddit post asking for recommendations and saw the owner of proshoot.co piped in. I figured, if this guy is passionate enough to post in the reddits, I’ll give it a chance. ...

I’m almost finished with modding my iPad mini with Cam Creux’s excellent netbridge mod. I started this in October but was pulled away by fatherhood and the chaos that comes with it. This time I reprinted the case in PETG (previously in ASA) and I’ve soldered together the gold mount plate so that the ipad can run forrrrevvverrrrr. I’m using a super tiny gold mount battery by Core SWX. For those of you that don’t know, netbridge is a point to point 802.11ah chipset that allows a 1 to 4 communication. It runs on the 900mhz frequency, meaning it goes a real long way (by Sam Petrov’s testing, the netbridge goes 580ft in the open). Also due to it’s lower frequency, the 900mhz can easily punch through concrete and other walls. ...

Well, it finally happened. Blackmagic has killed my Ultrastudio 3G with Thunderbolt 2. They had Apple’s help with their new driver managment. If you didn’t know, the decklink drivers on MacOS Sequoia is new a “Camera Driver”, and for whatever reason that seems to be causing a lot of issues for people with older ultrastudio hardware. This happened right when I was starting a monitor calibration for Rushlight Studios, which made a simple job a bit of a pain. Fortunately I had purchased an AJA io4k over the summer since I was so impressed with AJA’s performance in Assimilate Scratch, and another bout of good fortune, Assimilate Scratch is compatible with my monitor calibration software (Colourspace) as a signal generator! So no hard feeling Blackmagic. ...

Check out the new site! It’s simple, it’s clean, its…free? That’s right! I’m using the CMS Hugo to create a dead simple site that’s managed with markdown files on github. Why am I doing this? Well to save money obviously. And I really just wanted a website that was deconstructed, and looked a bit more like a notion document. Hopefully I’m lowering the upkeep and making it easier to update in the process. ...