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Posts filed under Tech on Ivan Morgillo.

A compact black macropad with two aluminium volume knobs on a wooden desk, a Linux terminal glowing on the monitor behind it

Linux / Tech OpenAI sells a $230 keypad to run AI agents. I built one for $28 on Linux. OpenAI’s first hardware is a $230 keypad for driving AI coding agents. I rebuilt the part that matters — voice dictation and one-press agent commands — for $28, on Linux, with... July 29, 2026

Programming / Tech Walking Pad, Controlled by Code: BLE, FTMS, and a Phone Button That Tracks Every Step I have a Mobvoi Home walking pad under my standing desk. BLE, FTMS, Python, and a Home Assistant button: one tap to start, one to stop, every session logged. June 24, 2026

Dark card reading iPhone screenshots on Linux — one Stream Deck button to clipboard, pymobiledevice3 + a root tunnel

AI / Programming iPhone Screenshots on Linux, on a Stream Deck Button How I screenshot my iPhone straight to the Linux clipboard with one Stream Deck button — iOS 17+ needs pymobiledevice3 and a root tunnel, not the classic idevicescreenshot. No... June 22, 2026

Dark teal card reading Give your screenshots a sound — a Stream Deck trick for the clipboard

AI / Programming Give Your Screenshots a Sound — a Stream Deck Button That Dings When the Image Is on the Clipboard A Stream Deck button that plays a ding the instant a phone screenshot lands in the clipboard — no more counting to three. Plus a foldable multi-display gotcha (and the fix),... June 17, 2026

Celebratory card in Material Design 3 purple gradient reading star 1,000 — Material Design 3 Skill — github.com/hamen/material-3-skill

AI / Programming 1,000 Stars: My Material Design 3 Skill Hit a Milestone I’d Never Reached My Material Design 3 skill for AI coding agents just passed 1,000 stars on GitHub — my first repo ever to do so. The story, what it does (30+ MD3 components, Compose-first,... June 17, 2026

AI assistant robot hand reaching toward a polkit password dialog over a Linux terminal — an AI coding agent requesting root via pkexec

AI / Programming How I Let My AI Coding Agent Run sudo on My Linux Box Without Pasting Into a Terminal Letting an AI coding agent run root commands on Linux without pasting sudo into a terminal — a tiny reusable asroot helper built on pkexec and polkit's graphical password dialog. June 16, 2026

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AI / Programming How I Gave the Claude App Access to My Self-Hosted Second Brain I gave the Claude phone app access to my self-hosted memory — a remote MCP server over Tailscale Funnel, OAuth and Qdrant, running on a solar-powered PC at home. June 13, 2026

Google Drive on Linux — a fast rclone mount with working thumbnails

Linux / Tech Google Drive on Linux: A Fast rclone Mount (and Why Your Thumbnails Are Missing) How I finally got Google Drive working as a fast, normal folder on Linux with rclone — and fixed the non-obvious problem of missing image thumbnails on FUSE mounts. June 12, 2026

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Linux / Tech Bringing DHH’s Omakub to WSL2? Setting up a developer environment on WSL2 with Alacritty, Zellij, Cargo and the Tokyo Night theme inspired by DHH's Omakub. November 5, 2024

Life / Tech How to Turn Off Camera and Mic by Default in Google Meet (2026) Start every Google Meet with camera off and mic muted — no plugins needed. Step-by-step guide updated for 2026 with the latest Google Meet settings. July 8, 2020