@lynaghk

I design and build things. Mostly software, sometimes furniture, and a few small buildings once. https://xitter.cf/t.co/0gkn5HFNPK

 Amsterdam
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Joined January 2012
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Newsletter: On sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2…
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Newsletter: Tools I loved in 2025 I picked up a bunch of great tools last year, all of which have helped me make cozier, personalized physical and digital spaces for myself. Sharing to help you get cozy too =D kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2…
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I CNC'd myself a bed. Details, along with musings on a constraint programming language, NYC, and battery-powered air handling in my latest newsletter: kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2…
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Why I shop via print catalogs in 2025 Web designers: Our drop-down can't show more than five things. Print designers: Here's the entire product family in one table, how the table works, and how it relates to the physical packaging.
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3M's Versaflo powered air respirator is the most comfortable integrated eye/ear/lung protection for woodworking, but it starts at $1650. So I just bought the helmet for $225 and threw together the rest for $50 with a bit of 3D printing. kevinlynagh.com/papr/
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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/whispertr…

GitHub - lynaghk/whispertron

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Find someone who cares about you as much as Apple cares that AirTag holders fit perfectly.
A technical drawing of an AirTag with many, many callouts describing the curvature of an AirTag.

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See the full lineup of fun technical drawings at developer.apple.com/accessor…
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Newsletter: 3d-printing a TV stand, making bright office lights, and thinking about graph-directed autocomplete
close up of a wooden joint where two small rods are attached to a large rod using a 3d printed connector

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a wood and felt desk partition containing an extremely bright uplight, illuminating the white ceiling and surrounding walls

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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 and use computer vision to simulate your hands while you customize geometry in your browser. (ryanis.cool/cosmos/)
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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…
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Have you ever wished for a 500 Hz, millimeter-precise linear position sensing system? Well you're in luck --- all you need is some circuit board, a basic microcontroller, and a wee bit of maths! kevinlynagh.com/calipertron/
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Inspired by @geoffreylitt, I spent the weekend making a lil' dictation app so I can talk directly with LLMs. Building it with Cursor + Claude was so fast that I had plenty of time afterwards to put up an art wall behind my desk too!
Some framed Dutch illustrated animal books, a framed collection of weird keyboards, and framed postcards all hung on a wall above a row of green plants and an oscilloscope.

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Backstory: kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2… Code Repo: github.com/lynaghk/whispertr…
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My latest newsletter is out at kevin lynagh .com, in which I learn interesting facts about arteries clogging up and how to avoid it. Subscribers: Gmail classified it as spam, so you may not have seen it in your inbox. Followers: X hides posts links, sorry I can't put one here.
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Please let me know the best way to 2004 Internet here in 2024.
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Notes on building a floating castle standing desk: kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2…
A standing desk with a wooden desk top and meter high partition wrapping around three sides of the desk, consisting of gray felt basket-woven through meter-tall wood rods.

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I'll be at #KiCon this weekend! Fellow @kicad_pcb enthusiasts, please join me in the group chat forum.kicad.info/t/kicon-202… so we can coordinate coffee drinking, computing, and designing PCBs while on trains/airplanes.

KiCon 2023 Group Chat

I find conferences way more fun when there’s a shared group chat for all the attendees so folks can coordinate eating/drinking together, travel around the conference, hacking on projects, etc. I...

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