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Two weeks ago, I built a search engine which only searches over a list of RSS feeds you expressedly give it. If you regularly read ten blogs, you can add those ten to the engine, and then search for stuff in them. I called it OpenOrb↗ - if you click on that link, you’ll be able to use my own instance. RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of...

Raphael Kabo's personal website and writing on programming, poetry, and academia.

Last month I picked up the Pimoroni Plasma Stick↗, which is essentially an RP2040-powered Raspberry Pi Pico bolted onto a terminal block and a Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector, to make it easier to connect WS2812/NeoPixel-style individually addressable RGB(W) LED light strips. That’s a lot of terminology! Once the Plasma Stick arrived in the mail, I...

Today I decided to finally try out Astro↗, a Javascript framework for building websites, by trialling it on my homepage. Suffice to say I liked it so much, and it was so easy to get to grips with, that this site is now built using Astro.1 I was previously less interested in Astro because I thought it was mostly a tool for building websites using...

When I lived in Australia, the local council would send us a little calendar a few times a year with all the bin collection dates listed on it. It had a magnet on the back, so you could stick it on the fridge. I think it also included some cheery information about how much the local MP was doing and why we should absolutely vote for them in the...