By McCoy

Wikis & Info Arch

I'm a very big fan of Wikis. Both as collaborative tools, but also as unstructured-structured information management tools. I live in the thin line between chaos and order, so having the ability to structure content, but have that structured content structured in an organic – albeit chaotic – way makes

March 2024

I've decided to make a concerted effort to update all of my web presences. It's difficult, as in spite of the minimal updates and apparent abandoned look to them all, there are actually countless draft articles - plus in my Notes.app, there's just

Mercury II Driver Issues

After many years of lusting after laser cutter, and lots of researching, I lucked out and picked up a GCC Laserpro Mercury II (M-40W). I spent the first few weeks going through the exciting fun of clunky driver issues. I’m Mac based, and being M1 based, can’t virtualise

OP-Z with Korg PadKontrol

I've been trying to get the Korg PadKontrol working with the OP-Z over USB for a week or two. Tested a few cables, and now tried a Kingston Nucleum USB hub. The manual is vague (and indeed a few folk on YouTube using them with the OP-Z and

2020

I'm not quite sure when I last updated my site. The WayBackMachine is suggesting I launched the last incarnation sometime in early 2016, and there's been something like 12 updates. Epic. That site was supposed to be a landing page for the myriad range of social

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