https://dydo.co/ Things I made, and what I noticed making them. en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:21:46 +0000 https://dydo.co/posts/acid-mothers-temple-at-pour-house.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/acid-mothers-temple-at-pour-house.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A psych band from Osaka at Pour House in Raleigh: the room, the band, and a card handed across the merch table. https://dydo.co/posts/starting-with-alan-watts.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/starting-with-alan-watts.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A short reading and listening path into Alan Watts, for someone I met at a show in Raleigh who wanted to study up on him. https://dydo.co/posts/how-to-make-a-ghost-photo.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/how-to-make-a-ghost-photo.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 11 slides for an old Nikon D3000: one person holds still, someone walks past, and a two-second exposure turns the walker into a ghost. Made for Menan to try in her studio. https://dydo.co/posts/the-pen-is-a-pure-tone.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-pen-is-a-pure-tone.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A short poem about writing. https://dydo.co/posts/making-the-kiosk-smooth.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/making-the-kiosk-smooth.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The kiosk's fireworks were choppy in Firefox. Forcing the GPU on didn't fix it; a native LÖVE port and a WebGL rewrite both hit 60 frames a second. The web version stays. https://dydo.co/posts/bust-symmetry.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/bust-symmetry.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A phone tool for checking a clay bust's symmetry: one photo from a few steps back, a flip button, and her source picture lined up eye to eye. Built in an afternoon with Claude Code, mostly by taking things out. https://dydo.co/posts/the-chromebook-kiosk.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-chromebook-kiosk.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A spare Chromebook becomes a countertop screen for morning dashboards: why not Google's managed kiosk mode, and what it takes to put Linux on an ARM Chromebook. https://dydo.co/posts/the-rabbit.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-rabbit.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Part 3 of the Diablo duck: the pond's one townsperson, a wild cottontail modeled in Blender, rendered from the duck's camera, and packed into the 25-frame sprite Diablo used for Cain. https://dydo.co/posts/the-duck-pond.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-duck-pond.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Part 2 of the Diablo duck: instead of reskinning all of Diablo, start from the free shareware's small core and replace it piece by piece. First stop, a new town: a pond, a rabbit, and a rabbit hole with a snake at the bottom. https://dydo.co/posts/you-are-not-what-you-do.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/you-are-not-what-you-do.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Synergy, LLMs, and the part of you that can't be handed off. https://dydo.co/posts/the-diablo-duck.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-diablo-duck.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Two days turning Diablo's warrior into a rubber duck with an LLM coding agent: a 1998-style trainer, a photo-fitted 3D duck, 85 animations, in-game menus, and the tools that made each change show up in seconds. https://dydo.co/posts/the-time-lapse-camera.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-time-lapse-camera.html Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Raspberry Pi from the record project became a one-button time-lapse camera: a live player you can scrub, per-frame graphs, its own Wi-Fi when there's none, and a clock it borrows from your phone. About $107 in parts. https://dydo.co/posts/the-record-library.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/the-record-library.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 My dad was done with his record collection. Before deciding what stays in the family, we inventoried all 462 records in an afternoon with a Raspberry Pi, a webcam, one button and an LLM extracting text from the covers. https://dydo.co/posts/what-happened.html?from=rss https://dydo.co/posts/what-happened.html Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 A news reader that only showed things that had already happened, and the year it ran without anyone watching.