How I Outsmarted Coupon DRM (And It Only Cost Me 2 Cents)
A mini-battle with a stubborn $2 coupon PDF that wouldn't let me print a second copy.
Read more →Your Digital Afterlife: An AI Gamble on Immortality
Exploring the idea of AI agents preserving and updating a person’s digital legacy after death, and a gamble on digital immortality.
Read more →Google I/O and the Importance of User Agency in AI
I watched Google I/O and was impressed by the new AI features. But it’s clear that many users feel frustrated because they don’t have control or a way to turn them off. This post explores why feeling in control matters just as much as the technology itself.
Read more →Turning Twitter into a Cleaner RSS Feed with TwitterToRSS
I created TwitterToRSS, a simple Python app that scrapes posts from selected Twitter users every 12 hours and updates an RSS feed. Inspired by Nitter but without the complexity or API costs, it uses your own Twitter session cookies for authentication to deliver a cleaner, ad-free way to follow content.
Read more →Making Pixel Art Animations with Custom Tools
I made an animation companion app that allowed me to create pixel art animations with Paint.net, a regular image editor.
Read more →Custom Ad-Blocker Chrome Extension
I built a simple ad-blocker extension for Google Chrome that lets you specify exactly which ads to hide. Helpful for both ad-blocking and web scraping.
Read more →Bing Wallpaper with Python for Windows
Building a Python script that does what the Bing Wallpaper app does, without he bloat!
Read more →Running a Simple Coding Agent on a Raspberry Pi Zero
I built a simple coding agent using just five basic tools and deployed it on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with a nice chat UI. This lightweight system enables on-demand app development and research via LLM APIs, demonstrating how easy and fun it is to create custom coding agents.
Read more →Making Aerogarden Smarter?
The LCD display on my Aerogarden unit broke randomly. This post explores a way to replace the logic circuit with a cheap ($3) ESP32 module. Doing so, we could add functionality, like sending real time alerts.
Read more →World of Agents
We may soon transition to a world full of personal assistant agents - where each of us will have dozens, or even hundreds of "little helpers" working for us in the background. I detail some considerations of what it might be like transitioning into this world.
Read more →To Make a Blog?
A brainstorm / thought breakdown of whether or not I (or anyone) should start a web blog in 2026
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