Mikey ( @ahdinosaur )
mikey.nz
Mikey ( @ahdinosaur )
@mikey.nz
mad scientist, toddler tamer, divine giraffe worshipper.

working on villagekit.com, an open modular system for building physical things in the solarpunk peer-to-peer future.

(he/him) ☀🌱🐈🌙💜
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October 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
For what it's worth though @tantacrul.bsky.social, imo the new logo has the vibes of a soulless corporation, not a lively open source project. I like the blue color and the waveform, I like the vibes of the old logo.
October 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
For an alternative to DHH's Omarchy, I use regolith-desktop.com (on Debian), which I love. 🌔 💜

To me, Regolith (GNOME + i3) is the best balance: things like printers and displays just work, easy to find packages in the Debian / Ubuntu ecosystem, plus I get to use an awesome tiling window manager.
Regolith Desktop Environment
Productivity focused Ubuntu derivative and desktop environment
regolith-desktop.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
To be clear, you should _also_ still say what you want about DHH, he's got uninspiring opinions on race and gender:

web.archive.org/web/20250920...

See also: github.com/Plan-Vert/op...
As I remember London
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube...
web.archive.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I miss Feedhack, basically what if OBS was p2p: shared canvas, each peer can add local audio or video. Makes me want to try again in Rust with www.iroh.computer.

From the second COVID lockdown:

- tube.arthack.nz/w/mkhms1tQgk...
- tube.arthack.nz/w/pBhhMN53L7...
- tube.arthack.nz/w/6HpjLFTz6k...
DESTROY the virus WITH lockdown SCIENCE
Live peer-to-peer jam using feedhack.nz. Facebook stream: https://www.facebook.com/groups/arthacknz/posts/2589734861173323/
tube.arthack.nz
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yeah, "punishing intellectual" libertarian teen aside, lucky for me my childhood in general was positive, learned feminism from my mom working in corporate America. I turned a new leaf at uni and thankfully had good soil to re-grow from. Now means I can better relate to those carrying toxic ideas. ☠︎︎
September 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Big credit to Steam's Proton for making games on Linux just work. That was my last real reason to dual-boot to Windows.

My most recent Linux realization is that Kdenlive, the open source video editor, is really good. Like as good as Davinci for what I use. So that's cool.
Kdenlive - Free and Open Source Video Editor
Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
kdenlive.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Say what you want about DHH, as a long-time Linux user I support the effort to bring Linux to the masses.

It's funny, a week ago I was repeating the joke "this year will be the year of the Linux desktop!!!", but then I realized wait, the Linux desktop is pretty good now, even for newbies.
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Now I'm absolutely wrecked. Need to seriously recharge my social batteries. 😅

Was surprised by how much I was able to socialize. Since becoming a parent my social anxiety has gone way down, I lost my fucks to give, learned in most situations if you're being authentic there's no wrong answers. 💜
August 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Also RENEGADE arthack.nz SHOW:

- 🎶 Music: @noiseissues.bsky.social aka DESTROY WITH SCIENCE with #Eurorack #synthesizer controlled by Pi sequencer
- 🌈 Visuals: www.jackvpurvis.com using visor.live
- 🧊 LEDs: Me using blinksy.dev

Music and visuals created #live, everything powered by #rustlang.
August 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I gave a talk: "Rust in Color: Embedded LED Art", showing the power of Rust to make high-level abstractions for low-level applications. 🔴🔵🟢

Slides: ahdinosaur.github.io/rustforge-20...

Recording to come out later.

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback. 🥰
Rust in Color: Embedded LED Art - Slidev
"## Rust in Color: Embedded LED Art\n\nBeautiful art with LEDs:\n\n> Using **Rust** to write nice code for an embedded _no-std_ _no-alloc_ LED cube.\n\n<https://blinksy.dev>\n"
ahdinosaur.github.io
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM