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Managing your music library and digital audio player with musync

One of my few (or rather: my only) successful programming projects is musync. It began as a weekend hack to solve the growing problem of how to selectively synchronize music to my portable digital audio player into a somewhat coherent file/directory structure.
Shortly after musync became practically usable, however, udoprog started hacking on it, and the [...]

Winky, an arduino-based temperature logger: project plan

I spent New Year’s with my cousins (also known as The Swedish Shortsnouts), where I came in contact with a project of their father’s, a PIC-based temperature monitor/logger named Dobby. When I returned home, I felt rather inspired, and dug up my Arduino Duemilanove and a SHT15 sensor I bought earlier.
At this point, I’d like [...]

Thoughts on software and desktop interface design (from a design hater’s perspective)

I previously wrote about website design. Now I’d like to continue my argument and move it to the desktop in stead. I’m going to begin by explaining my motives and approach to computing, continue by pointing out some important problems of most modern desktop environments, give some examples of what is being done about this [...]

Anonymous WWW: Tor and i2p

I’ve recently tried out both Tor and i2p, two very popular tools for anonymous data exchange. They both have different anonymization implementations, but I’m not going to go into that in this post, mainly because I haven’t researched either of them very well. Instead, I’m going to focus on my experiences with them both, as [...]

Thoughts on Blog Design (From A Design Hater’s Perspective)

A few thoughts on good blog design practices.