Category: Longform
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Edinburgh Fringe 2026
I had the immense privilege of being able to attend Edinburgh Fringe for about a week this year. I’d never heard of Fringe before this year, but I’ll certainly remember it fondly for the rest of my life. I was able to see a whopping 11 performances while I was in Edinburgh, and I thought…
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Sven Trümper is Not a Nice Person
About two weeks ago I released a free open source app for the Commodore 64 Ultimate and I promoted it on Reddit. In the thread a user reached out trying to get it to work with a non-Ultimate device, which wouldn’t work because they don’t have the data streams. Later, the user messaged me on…
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Introducing C64 Ultimate Toolbox
For my birthday this year, my wife got me a Commodore 64 Ultimate, a brand new FPGA emulation of the original Commodore 64, with some bells and whistles. Why did I want one of these, considering it came out 3 years before I was born and I’d never interacted with one in my life? Well,…
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Life Saver TV v1.2
Today I released a big update for Life Saver TV, my version of the Life Saver screensaver for Apple TV. This is the first update for it in about five years, and a big one. I decided to harness the power of Claude Code to add a lot of features to it, while fixing some…
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Introducing The Eye of Providence
The hysteria over Discord implementing age verification inspired me to set up my own forum/chat system, so after a little research, I set up Discourse. This makes a lot of sense, I think, because it lets me consolidate all of my project update stuff into one place where it makes the most sense, and also…
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A Lodge is No Place for a Leftist
Reflections on spending a year inside the world’s oldest fraternity — and realizing it wasn’t built for people like me.
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Introducing Postalgic
Early into 2023 I decided I would make my own blogging CMS (Content Management System) and started thinking about it enough that I came up with a name and even registered a domain name: Postalgic(.app). But then it seems like I got distracted, and it wasn’t until over two years later (about a month ago)…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Varying Levels of Getting Started with “Uncensored” LLM-Powered Chatbots (2024 Update)
This post is an update to my previous post, May 2023’s “The Varying Levels of Getting Started with “Uncensored” LLM-Powered Chatbots“. A lot has happened in 11 months. Well, not a lot, but, things have changed a bit. I think that post is still worth reading, because it explains more in depth what we’re talking…
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How I Build Apps (And So Can You)
I’ve built a few apps now, apps that people actually pay money for–not a lot of money; a very, very small amount of money, but enough that my Apple Developer fee has been paid for until I die, at the very least. I don’t say this to brag, but to establish that I’ve done this…
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Introducing Ealain for Apple TV
Just 11 days ago, I released Ealain for Vision Pro and now I’m very happy to introduce Ealain for Apple TV, which is the same app, it’s just for Apple TV now. You can find it at the same App Store page for Ealain for Vision Pro, because it’s a universal app (or whatever they…