Maker Hacks / chrisg (@makerhacks) - Honouree

Maker Hacks / chrisg

www.makerhacks.com

York, England

Maker and blogger from Calgary 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 [RPG/D&D/Wargaming, Art, 3d printing, arduino, raspberry pi, robots, laser engraving, CNC, programming, Retrocomputing ..]

22 days ago

E-Begging Back in the early days of blogging, since before it was called that, there was a strong community distaste for "monetization", aka earning m

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23 days ago

Gobblin Procreate Drawing Quick video showing my drawing process. Lately I have been trying out Procreate on the

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25 days ago

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Slopportunities or Robot Fren? My social network has been split pretty much 50-50 recently, most glaringly on LinkedIn but it is starting to creep into others such as the

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about 1 month ago

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30-Year Freelancing Anniversary and Domaining Re-upping my hoard of domains every year costs a fortune, even after transferring them to a cheaper domain registrar, because I have so many

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about 1 month ago

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Retro Roguelike Dungeon Crawler (Long Overdue Updates) Last time I did a devlog it was to say the code was refactored and cross-platform. Big new changes are procedural generation is back and I

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4 months ago

Claude is both the best and the worst Oh Claude why? WHY? !Claude you absolute arse( Claude managed to fix something very c

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4 months ago

LLM-Assisted Debugging Rollercoaster Forget Vibe Coding, Bots Are for Bug Squashing For the last couple of weeks I have been experiencing software development synchronicities

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5 months ago

The LLM Middle-Ground I've got a lot of friends who would like me to change my position, and for good reason, but I am neither an "AI hater" nor an "AI lover".

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6 months ago

How to talk to your family about AI The UK government has decided to spend a fortune on promoting AI to the masses, and they are not exactly impartial. !(

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8 months ago

The “Joys” of Original Retro Hardware !Previously (allegedly) working Amstrad CPC main board now with added video borkage(

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8 months ago

It’s easier than you think to build yourself a custom keyboard Not saying it is easy, just easier than you think !( I am converting a ZX Spectrum k

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9 months ago

Remote Control Your Android Device Give old Android phones or tablets a new life via remote control !Give old Android phones or tablets a new life via remote control(https:/

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9 months ago

Instead of Opening Up PostgreSQL to Remote Connections, Do This Use your SSH credentials to create a secure tunnel to your database !( TL;DR, here i

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9 months ago

I finally switched away from the default Mac terminal app and you might want to too "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." !(

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9 months ago

British parliament just mentioned Doom WADs and Kaizo Mario romhacks E-petition debate relating to consumer law and videogames - Monday 3 November 2025: The Peti

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