Reviving Noize: Rebuilding a Dead React App

This post was generated by AI and reviewed, edited, and annotated by a human Some years ago, kartiknair, built a lovely little thing called Noize — a single-page app that plays looping background noise (rain, a café, a medieval town, brown noise) over pixel-art scenes, so you can relax or focus. This week I decided to actually get it running again and put it somewhere permanent. It’s now live at aryamans....

July 22, 2026
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Writing blogs with AI

writing in the age of AI feels… strange. even as I type this, GitHub copilot is suggesting entire sentences for me to write. I can see the appeal of using AI to help with writing, but it also feels like I’m losing a part of myself in the process. the previous sentence was one of those suggestions. on one hand, technical writing has always been about getting your point across. if AI can do a better job of that (quicker), then there’s nothing wrong with using it....

July 20, 2026

Reverse-Engineering the 8bitDo Keyboard

This post was generated by AI and reviewed, edited, and annotated by a human I have an 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard, N Edition, the cream-and-grey one that looks like an NES typewriter. It comes with “Super Buttons” that beg to be mapped to something. My something was simple: I wanted one of them to fire a single global hotkey so I could trigger Wispr Flow dictation. The catch: the only software that programs this keyboard is 8BitDo’s official Windows app, and I’m on a Mac....

July 18, 2026
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