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Maker Hacks / chrisg

@makerhacks

Maker and blogger from Calgary 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 [RPG/D&D/Wargaming, Art, 3d printing, arduino, raspberry pi, robots, laser engraving, CNC, programming, Retrocomputing ..]

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Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Jul 16, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

E-Begging

Back in the early days of blogging, since before it was called that, there was a strong community distaste for "monetization", aka earning money from your creations. That seemed to go away in recent…

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Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Jul 15, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

Gobblin Procreate Drawing

https://youtube.com/shorts/et0CVN4vS88?feature=share Quick video showing my drawing process. Lately I have been trying out Procreate on the iPad using a stylus. I am not fully comfy with it but I dis…

19 upvotes 4 replies $0.38
Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Jul 13, 2026, 9:47 AM UTC

Slopportunities or Robot Fren?

My social network has been split pretty much 50-50 recently, most glaringly on LinkedIn but it is starting to creep into others such as the retro games community. The split is pro or anti AI in creat…

25 upvotes 16 replies $0.77
Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Jul 2, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC

30-Year Freelancing Anniversary and Domaining

Re-upping my hoard of domains every year costs a fortune, even after transferring them to a cheaper domain registrar, because I have so many. I've even let a lot lapse over the years, some really nic…

23 upvotes 1 replies $0.65
Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Jun 29, 2026, 8:34 AM UTC

Retro Roguelike Dungeon Crawler (Long Overdue Updates)

Last time I did a devlog it was to say the code was refactored and cross-platform. Big new changes are procedural generation is back and I added "fog of war", with conditional compilation. This means…

55 upvotes 9 replies $1.27
Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Apr 6, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

Claude is both the best and the worst

Oh Claude why? WHY? Claude managed to fix something very complex for me that I, as a human, thought was impossible for me to fix. But it has taken days because Anthropic have weird processes and poli…

50 upvotes 4 replies $0.71
Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Mar 27, 2026, 3:39 PM UTC

LLM-Assisted Debugging Rollercoaster

Forget Vibe Coding, Bots Are for Bug Squashing For the last couple of weeks I have been experiencing software development synchronicities of the most horrible kind. Normally what happens is bug gets…

23 upvotes 9 replies $1.00
Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Mar 19, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

The LLM Middle-Ground

I've got a lot of friends who would like me to change my position, and for good reason, but I am neither an "AI hater" nor an "AI lover". There is a lot to dislike about these LLM tools: - Resource u…

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Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Jan 28, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

How to talk to your family about AI

The UK government has decided to spend a fortune on promoting AI to the masses, and they are not exactly impartial. If you have family or friends adopting "AI" tools, make sure they do not fully swal…

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Maker Hacks / chrisg
@makerhacks Dec 15, 2025, 12:40 PM UTC

The “Joys” of Original Retro Hardware

For the full nostalgic computing experience, original hardware, preferably plugged into a CRT screen, is the ideal. But as with most ideals, that experience can be fleeting or vanishingly rare becaus…

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