PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / design study
A true-beginner Vintage Story video
Planning a first-day Vintage Story guide around the things a new player should be able to do before nightfall.
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project / experiment
An AI agent in a disposable VM
A personal lab for watching how an ordinary sudo-capable agent handled normal Linux tasks, including malformed actions and a suspected loop.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / experiment
Finding my way around ComfyUI
From a short image-to-video reel to a basic text-to-image graph, with the actual nodes, settings, and failures that shaped the experiment.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / build log
A Linux From Scratch build attempt
Building Linux From Scratch in a VM: host checks, the cross-toolchain, chroot, package corrections, and test results that were not uniformly clean.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / learning note
Making a Blender course more usable
Testing a twenty-module Blender course exposed a basic problem: an absolute beginner needs exact actions and visible checks, not a longer outline.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project
StrataLedger
A spreadsheet and web-app concept connecting transaction records to priorities, with a three-sheet starting point and a concrete review workflow.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / experiment
Organizing an Obsidian archive
An archive design that preserves topic drift, separates transcripts from concept notes, and keeps source dates distinct from import dates.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / design study
A layered decision model
A general decision framework became a game about balancing usable possibilities, with weighted priorities, signals, dials, and explicit prototype equations.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / learning note
Practicing Bisaya
Actual Bisaya practice: greetings, reusable sentence patterns, my corrections, and a compact phrase sheet.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / learning note
An SDL2 agent-model sketch
A single-file C/SDL2 draft models one hundred moving agents with position, velocity, and simple boundary bounces.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / investigation
Checking a wildflower identification
A blue wildflower photograph led to a tentative Penstemon identification and a list of alternatives to compare.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / learning note
Early game-code sketches
Three generated game sketches moved from a console character to an SDL rectangle and a rough C++ room-and-combat model.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / learning note
From operating systems to an SDL sketch
An oversized operating-system request narrowed into a small C++ wrapper that opened an SDL window and drew one rectangle.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / learning note
First steps in Tagalog
The actual starter phrases from my first Tagalog exchange, from greetings and thanks to a few everyday questions.