Digital Coloring

A Surface Duo foldable phone showing Sketchbook full screen and a Surface Pen sitting on the corner of the screen at an angle. The work shown on-screen is a partially complete coloring page.

Figure 1: An in-progress coloring page

Table of Contents

Changelog

2025-03-03
Remove ‘Drawing’ from page in favor of a dedicated ‘Digital Drawing’ page. This page is now only about digital coloring. Also rewrote portions to be more topical and reflect my current setup(s).

Going Digital

Given I gave up on Analog coloring and drawing due to health and living space needs, I figured it was time to really commit to figuring out digital for coloring and drawing. Note I intentionally avoided making desktop or laptop computers a requirement for my setup. I want to have this whenever/wherever in it’s simplest form.

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Cyber Decks and KISS

A Surface Duo folding phone, Elecom Bitra trackball, 7skb keyboard, The Paintbrush keyboard shown setup how I might use them day to day

Figure 1: The Hardware

How I came to have a cyber deck that gets out of my way and allows me to focus on creation, not consumption

Prelude

For years I have seen posts about cyber decks and always wondered why people build them. I think I finally “Get It” while also not at all understanding why people build the decks I see posted online.

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IPFS | Data Persistence For Web Content

What Is IPFS?

IPFS (link) is a distributed filesystem. It’s basically a peer to peer, global storage engine that allows content to be stored and cached globally.

Think of a large website like Amazon that stores copies of their files in multiple locations all over the globe. IPFS does something similar and can be used by anyone, not just one of the largest companies on the planet. This allows your content to be served by a globally distributed network and without having to run a massive amount of your own server infrastructure.

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Tech 

Wireguard Saves The Day

An arm single board computer that was setup per this post

Figure 1: The Hardware

Let’s Set The Mood

Lately I’ve been getting into more video games. I happen to prefer co-op video gaming with friends. I’m also a big fan of first person perspective games.

There is one game in particular that’s been nothing but problematic for myself and my core group of friends that play co-op games with each other. We do the whole ‘just a few of us who are in it for fun’ gaming and prefer to have something that doesn’t require a hell of a lot of thought.

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Gaming  Tech 

Remote Office Fun

The whole setup described here sitting on a desk

Figure 1: The Setup

Changelog

2024-01-06
  • Added fill light information
  • Added Zoom U-22
  • Added Rhode mic adapter

Microphone, Camera, Headphones, ACTION!

Recently I actually had a need to put together a proper setup for remote work. Specifically I needed a web cam, microphone and decent headphones. Normally I’d just have used my HyperX Cloud Pro Gaming Headset. Unfortunately they have a strange problem where the microphone and headphone wires bleed signal so as I hear things the mic picks up the output and re-sends it as my own.

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Mobile Mapping

OK…

Lately I’ve been poking at updating and improving my usual offline mapping setup on Android. For the last few years or so I’ve been GPX tracking my outings, adventures and some other stuff. Mainly for photo geotagging but also because it can be neat to see where I was and when after a day trip.

When out and about I insist on purely offline maps too. I like being away from the modern world, notifications and distractions. So… my phone ends up in places without cell service or the SIM card removed.

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Tech 

Markdown Wins (not really)

[Editors note: this post was inspired by ‘Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX’ (link)]

Years and years ago I learned about a wonderful markup language called LaTeX. It was far more powerful than HTML, had many templates available, handled math correctly and generally ‘just worked’.

Having content and presentation generally separate was a freeing moment in my journey through markup languages.

Once I discovered this disconnect I became an instant and heavy user of markup languages. I’ve used many over the years and LaTeX always reigned supreme for me. It’s flexible, adept and works beautifully.

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Tech