I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.
When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.
Learning that people suffering from the storm and blackout in Texas were using the guide in our book Recipes for Disaster to build a rocketstove with which to heat food and water, we've put the directions online here in their entirety:
Please circulate.
"The guru is not exposed as a liar or a lech, a joker or a thief, but “only” a child laughing in the sun. The seeker’s mistake did not lay in identifying something special in this person, but in believing — hoping — that this specialness had something to do with knowing the truth. Instead, the numinous boils down to an ordinary state of radiant and childlike joy."
I realize I've been tooting for a while on Merveilles and never wrote an intro. so sorry for the delay... of 12 months or so?
I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.
When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.
Anyone interested in an NSynth Super?
https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/
I might be building one for a family member, and it would make sense to buy components for couple more to get up to MOQ on the PCB etc. EU shipping only.
I could probably provide them fully-assembled but also as some kinds of kits if anyone wants that. Let me know in DM or reply, RTs appreciated too! :)
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/ fun hardware hacking revitalizing old kindles!
Oh, dang… “Today’s open-world video games resemble gig economy platforms, with endless task lists to conquer”
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lisperati1000-raspberry-pi-project is neat. I couldn't use it tho, would totally mess up my back at that angle.
https://playb.it/ makes me think of this community. Cool idea.
https://ben.akrin.com/?page_id=9650 this is cool! A diy plotter.
Yesterday I coded up a Golang library for https://lunchmoney.app - https://github.com/icco/lunchmoney
I found some bugs in their API while doing it, thankfully Jen, their founder, is incredibly responsive.
Two and a half years after it was published, I finally built a marketing page for my first book. https://realworldsre.com
PRs to make it better are welcome https://github.com/icco/realworldsre.com
https://framagit.org/tom79/fedilab/-/issues/498 wow, be nice to your local open source contributor.
I'm enjoying journaling more again. How I journal has gone through lots of iterations, but rewriting https://github.com/icco/etu has made it a great platform for me to write. Still not back to the level I was at in 2018, but here's hoping.
https://etu.natwelch.com/pages is a read only list of stuff now in the journal / wiki / memex.
I have a cli editor, I wanna build a mobile app, but that's in the future.
uspol + tech corps
Cloudflare is garbage. It hosts tons of hate websites. Has since it was founded. https://who-hosts-hate.com keeps track of all of the horrible websites they host. Stop giving them money. They don't even make a good product.
Software developer & Author living in NY.