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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 (4439 views)
  • Zip Multiple Files for Download from AWS S3 (2982 views)
  • Mustang Micro & iRig HD 2 Comparison (for iPad users) (1724 views)
  • Making PICO-8 Development Easier (988 views)
  • Fixing ASUS ZenWiFi AX 5Ghz Uplink Mode (752 views)
  • AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap Review (471 views)
  • The Varying Levels of Getting Started with "Uncensored" LLM-Powered Chatbots (2024 Update) (441 views)
  • Automating Python Lambda Deployments with Docker (394 views)
  • Introducing Ealain (319 views)
  • AI Horde Text Worker - Quick Start Guide for Windows (212 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)

May 25, 2022

Mustang Micro & iRig HD 2 Comparison (for iPad users)

I recently purchased a cheap electric guitar setup so that I could take my third… fourth?… try at learning to play guitar, in the hopes that I can start writing songs. I knew from experience that I would want some sort of audio interface for the guitar (for recording) and that I wanted to use … Mustang Micro & iRig HD 2 Comparison (for iPad users)

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May 22, 2022

What I’m Up To – Week 20, 2022

Last week I got my Panic Playdate in the mail. I preordered it last July, and have been following it since the May 2019 EDGE announcement, so you could say it was a long time coming. It’s such a nice feeling device, and good looking, too. Sure, the non-backlit screen can be annoying, but I … What I’m Up To – Week 20, 2022

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March 20, 2022

What I’m Up To – Week 11, 2022

What I got up to this week: some minor changes to the next version of MultiClock, and… well… not much else.

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March 16, 2022

New blog, who dis?

I migrated this blog from Gatsby to WordPress. I’m sure to many people that sounds insane. There’s so many tutorials online on how to migrate in the other direction, and even plugins that export all your content to Markdown files to stick into Gatsby, but nothing if you want to go another way. I’m doing … New blog, who dis?

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December 12, 2021

What I’m Up To – Week 49, 2021

What I did over the past week: I built and released dotBeat, a small macOS menu bar app.

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