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Notes & shout-outs

Deep-dives, build logs, and the occasional shout-out to a tool or service worth knowing about — written when there's something worth saying.

Jun 18, 2026 ·7 min read ·Shout-out: Rebind

Rebind: one programmable input layer, from the clinic to the clutch

I run a Teensy 4.0 flashed with Rebind's firmware — a programmable input layer that lives in hardware, not software. It looks like a plain keyboard to the OS, needs no drivers, and runs your logic at 8 kHz. That one property unlocks uses from locked-down clinic terminals to accessibility to tournament-legal gaming.

#Hardware#Firmware#Teensy#Accessibility#Automation#Gaming

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Jun 17, 2026 ·6 min read ·Shout-out: Valhalla

Why we route around surveillance with Valhalla

The easy routing APIs are black boxes — you get a polyline and zero say in why. Valhalla is open-source, self-hostable, and exposes real exclusion parameters, so we can route around ALPR cameras and keep the trips entirely ours.

#Valhalla#OpenStreetMap#Privacy#Routing#SelfHosted

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