Trying my hand (and risking my fingers) at wood carving this week. I’m not entirely sure what this fella’s supposed to be, but here he is.

#whittling #carving #woodworking #maker

Just finished building my first guitar pedal! It’s a compressor based on the Engineer’s Thumb design. Relatively straightforward to build and sounds great, balancing out the dynamics of my Telecaster and increasing sustain.

#guitarpedals #electronics #diypedal

I recently restored and upgraded my childhood Game Boy Color, replacing the screen with an AMOLED from a BlackBerry Q10 and adding recharging capability. Uses the original shell, trimmed to fit. Currently playing Mario Tennis on an Everdrive cartridge.

#gameboy #gbc #supermario #retrogaming

Fifteen years since I first wrote this, and it's still just as relevant today. A great introduction to Big O notation for measuring algorithmic complexity, aimed at software engineers without a traditional computer science background.

#computerscience #softwareengineering #bigonotation