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My name is Brad Root and I'm an artist, software engineer, tech enthusiast, music aficionado, video game junkie, weird coffee person, and occasional unicyclist. Find out more about me at my portfolio site.

I blog mostly about technology and video games over here. If you're interested in music, ſtaires! an adventure in listening may be up your alley.

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Greatest Hits

  • The Varying Levels of Getting Started with "Uncensored" LLM-Powered Chatbots (4428 views)
  • Zip Multiple Files for Download from AWS S3 (2981 views)
  • Mustang Micro & iRig HD 2 Comparison (for iPad users) (1722 views)
  • Making PICO-8 Development Easier (987 views)
  • Fixing ASUS ZenWiFi AX 5Ghz Uplink Mode (751 views)
  • AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap Review (469 views)
  • The Varying Levels of Getting Started with "Uncensored" LLM-Powered Chatbots (2024 Update) (440 views)
  • Automating Python Lambda Deployments with Docker (394 views)
  • Introducing Ealain (319 views)
  • AI Horde Text Worker - Quick Start Guide for Windows (211 views)
  • Why Does Everything I Like Suck Now? (134 views)
  • How I Build Apps (And So Can You) (128 views)
  • S3stat - Stats for AWS S3 Downloads (107 views)
  • Meta Quest 3 Review (71 views)

February 25, 2025

Why Does Everything I Like Suck Now?

There’s a war going on in gaming right now, and it has nothing to do with graphics, gameplay, or innovation. It’s about identity, algorithms, and outrage. And it’s exhausting.

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February 9, 2025

Introducing Ealain for macOS v1.0

About two years ago I released a screensaver for macOS called Ealain, and versioned it v0.1 because it was not quite living up to my original vision for the screensaver. And while it has grown in popularity regardless, I always knew it could be better. Ealain is meant to be a macOS screensaver that is … Introducing Ealain for macOS v1.0

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August 22, 2024

Re-Introducing “staires! an adventure in listening”

In my early teens and twenties, I was a consummate blogger. Well, really, I was more of a diarist, spewing thoughts about my life nearly continuously onto a blog of some form or another. In the late 2000’s, I decided to use my ability to spew text to promote music I liked, by converting my … Re-Introducing “staires! an adventure in listening”

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June 1, 2024

AI Horde Text Worker – Quick Start Guide for Windows

I noticed a lot of people ask in the AI Horde Discord how to run a worker. I thought it would be useful if the community had a blog post to point people to, and maybe that can be this post. Let’s go! How to get an AI Horde API key Be sure to get … AI Horde Text Worker – Quick Start Guide for Windows

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May 2, 2024

Introducing Inneal

While most of my AI related app releases have been dedicated to image generation, (counting two Ealain releases and then Aislingeach), my gateway into generative AI was chatbots. If you look at the chronology of this blog, that’s pretty obvious, since it all began with my post about “uncensored” chatbots, which I’ve recently updated to … Introducing Inneal

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