The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out


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The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out


Hello. You’ve found the blog of three thing-building, self-educating, perpetually-experimenting brothers. It includes reports from the world of DIY neuroscience and Brain-Computer Interfaces, posts about some things we’ve built and programmed, and occasional philosophical musings on life and happiness. ¡Bienvenidos!




#100DaysToOffload

  1. I’m trying #100DaysToOffload
  2. Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price
  3. Filtering RSS feeds by tag
  4. An unsolved question in sleep science
  5. A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit
  6. Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support
  7. Sleep is a continuum
  8. Wallabag wins, despite its flaws
  9. Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing
  10. Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way
  11. Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API
  12. How to Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations to a New Device
  13. What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam?
  14. A Fish shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files
  15. Split Testing in ~50 lines of JavaScript
  16. Finally, an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works
  17. And then there’s Readeck
  18. Human beings are waterproof
  19. The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols
  20. I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I’m making one
  21. Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult
  22. My Free Daily Silver Price API is Live
  23. It’s 2026 and LibreOffice Calc still can’t parse JSON API responses without a plugin
  24. I fixed my crashing AWS t2.micro instance by adding swap
  25. You’re in a computer literacy filter bubble
  26. My free Silver price API now has an RSS feed with the day’s bid price
  27. A basic way to hotreload an AppImage
  28. Script: bulk star Wallabag entries by URL
  29. Script: bulk star Readeck entries by URL (with URL cleaning)