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I build things—sometimes in code, sometimes in the real world, and sometimes from ideas that started in entirely different worlds.
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KiCad 10 + Fable 5: Rewiring My DEF CON SAO PCB for a CR2032
Every time I post images of a finished SAO, someone outside DEF CON asks to buy one. Without a badge to power it, it's a pretty PCB that does nothing, so I pointed Anthropic's Fable 5 at the project files and asked it to cut the cord.
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Bricked Head Case: A Two-Faced SAO PCB for DEF CON 34
LEGO minifig heads have two faces. I challenged myself to pull off the same trick on a printed circuit board. Twenty of these are coming to DEF CON.
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A Pirate, a Fortress, and a Very Long Flight
Sewing, 3D printing, laser cutting, grinding metal for corset boning, painting, sanding, and then more sanding — then I hauled the whole thing across an ocean for six photoshoots as Captain Fortune in Italy.
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I Suck at Art. My SKILL.md File Doesn't.
I know what I want to say in code. I have no idea what I want to say in pixels or visual layout — and I waste hours pretending I do. So I built a reusable SKILL.md file with my mood board, style theme, layout rules, and code example patterns, and I drop it into every project. This is the contract that finally got me to ship. GitHub repo for VS Code Copilot skills that turn a mood board, or just a sentence, into a styled HTML presentation page.
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Make Me a Sandwich: A Field Guide to AI Context
Type "make me a sandwich" into an AI and you could get a fifteen-hour Michelin deconstruction, a sudo command, or a hug from a stuffed bear. Same five words, seven different answers. Lesson 01 of AI Basics: why context — the invisible stuff around your prompt — is doing all the work.
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Frustration Driven Development: Meet HVE-Detective
A browsable, searchable directory in VS Code for Microsoft's Hypervelocity Engineering library — agents, prompts, instructions, and skills, all in one place. Built because I got tired of digging.
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