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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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  • The Varying Levels of Getting Started with "Uncensored" LLM-Powered Chatbots (4525 views)
  • Zip Multiple Files for Download from AWS S3 (2992 views)
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  • Making PICO-8 Development Easier (998 views)
  • Fixing ASUS ZenWiFi AX 5Ghz Uplink Mode (762 views)
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  • The Varying Levels of Getting Started with "Uncensored" LLM-Powered Chatbots (2024 Update) (463 views)
  • Automating Python Lambda Deployments with Docker (394 views)
  • Introducing Ealain (321 views)
  • AI Horde Text Worker - Quick Start Guide for Windows (225 views)
  • Why Does Everything I Like Suck Now? (134 views)
  • How I Build Apps (And So Can You) (128 views)
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November 26, 2020

People Can Be Dishonest About Work

Details of my experience with someone trying very hard to commit unemployment fraud.
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May 23, 2020

PiBar for Pi-hole v1.0 Out Now!

Last week I bought a Raspberry Pi Zero W so that I could set up a Pi-hole on my home network. If you don’t know what Pi-hole is: it’s a network-level ad and tracking script blocker. It’s different from using something like AdBlock or the Brave browser, because it works across all devices on your … PiBar for Pi-hole v1.0 Out Now!
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April 8, 2020

Zip Multiple Files for Download from AWS S3

Ever need to serve multiple files from S3 at once? Wouldn’t a zip function be great? Well, here you go.
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January 27, 2020

Numu Tracker Shut Down

After three years of Numu Tracker being a part of my life (the first year of it spent slowly developing it), I am moving on and shutting it down as of today. There’s several reasons for it, so I figure I will briefly talk about them as honestly as I can, and also reflect on … Numu Tracker Shut Down
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June 25, 2019

Automating Python Lambda Deployments with Docker

A quick guide on how to automate Lambda deployment package creation using Docker.
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