Just some examples of things I’ve printed or plan to. Ones marked with an asterisk (*) at the end are ones I largely or entirely designed myself or plan to largely or entirely design myself. Ones marked with a plus (+) are ones that are half completed. Minuses (-) are ones I haven’t started yet but intend to.

• Wall mounts for Nintendo Switch components (dock, controllers, Joycon charger, etc.) Definite space saver. *
• Wall mount for a Raspberry-Pi-based NAS solution. *
• Parts to augment a computer chassis wall mount for my ridiculously-large chassis. (Yes, there’s a bit of a pattern there.) *
• A custom Raspberry Pi case that mounts nicely and nondestructively to my desk.
• A custom adapter for my drill that let me run the drain in my washing machine when the motor was broken. *
• A custom plate to cover my nightstand clock face so it doesn’t shine in my eyes all night. *
• A custom die for a Sizzix Die Cutting Machine for quilting use. (That one took a lot of work.) *
• A custom tool for precisely bending 16mm steel strapping (which I’d sharpened into a blade) in service to the custom die just above. *
• Custom yarn bowls for my crafty mother. *
• Custom stitch markers for my crafty mother. *
• Custom barrel buttons for my crafty mother. *
• A couple of custom mounts for SAD lamps. *
• Custom shelving for a bathroom. *
• Custom mods for some wire shelving in the same bathroom. *
• Custom mount for a reflector mirror to let me see more with the security camera on my front porch. *
• A tool for straightening 3D-printing filament. *
• Spacers for mounting a peg board on the wall.
• I also had a folding door that broke and got kinda janky. I had a few extra of those peg board spacers, and they turned out coincidentally to be exactly the right size to properly shore up that door.
• Custom shelving for DVDs/Blurays and video games. *+
• A custom shelf-drawer for my mousepad. *-
• A custom 3D printed mechanical keyboard… once I’m done writing the program for rapidly prototyping 3D-printed keyboards. *+

I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch. And the above is only the useful things and excluding the mostly art/fun items.

I have in mind to do more 3D-printing of tools. I don’t have much specifically in mind. But that custom steel strapping bender is pretty cool. Also, some of what I mentioned above is available on my Thingiverse.

Oh sweet. I’ve been hearing how great this talk was and looking for a place where I could watch a video of it. Thanks.

There are games I pay for, but only on Nintendo consoles. Aside from that, it’s strictly write it myself or go without.

I definitely should donate to more FOSS projects, though.

One egg white omelet with a side of yolk.

I use Lemuroid on Android. Works well. On F-Droid. Nothing about it has prompted me to search for alternatives, so no idea how it stacks up against other options.

Also, EasyRPG Player on Android for RPG Maker games. (I played the original Yume Nikki not terribly long ago via EasyRPG Player.) Also on F-Droid. Also worked great.

Bookmarked that shit so fuckin’ hard.

Curl.

“Clown.” Some of my best friends do clowning as a hobby.

Check your spam folder. I don’t know that I’ve ever not received an email I was supposed to have received and found that the spam folder was actually the issue. But it’s still a good idea to check it in case that’s the whole issue.

Hey thank you! I’m glad to hear some interest in it. I’ve definitely got ideas as far as how I’d like to see it improve moving forward (some syntactic sugar, more sophisticated ways of drawing “people”/creatures/skeletons/etc, maybe vector graphics output support – no project is ever really done, you know.) I’m on another project at the moment, but if it got enough interest, I’d probably be inclined to put more work into it.

I don’t have a TTRPG campaign running right now (which is what I wrote it for), so I’m not “eating my own dog food” very much with that particular project. But I would love to do more with it. Only reason I’m not already is because I’ve got so many other projects I want to work on. Heh.

The main project I’m working on lately has been that 3D game assets DSL that I mentioned later in my post. It’s probably quite a bit more ambitious than codecomic (it’s actually Turing complete which definitely adds to the challenge), but I do see a point approaching where it’s feature-complete enough to at least publish an alpha version. It also definitely needs a lot more code comments/documentation before I publish. Probably still months away, but it feels a lot closer than it did last week. Heh.

Anyway, thanks again for the complement!

• Circular financing where all the “AI” players are paying each other making it seem like they’re worth something when they’re not (kinda like circle-jerk-style wash trading in a way.)
• The tech CEOs and government all know that AI’s failing miserably and the bailout is already happening. The government is just casting things that are a bailout as “not a bailout” to try to keep it under wraps. (The “Great Big Beautiful Bill” had measures in it specifically to bail out AI companies.) They’re also propagandaing us hoping the public will support (or at least tolerate) a much more blatant bailout in the near future.
• CoreWeave is a former crypto company that pivoted into building data centers. Many of the other AI players are financially dependent on CoreWeave. Meanwhile CoreWeave is in gar-fucking-gantuine amounts of debt that they will never be able to pay back in a trillion years. It’s very possible CoreWeave could be the first major domino to fall.

It’s the only thing that is.

Whirled peas.

That’s the joke.

Nobody else immediately thought of this?

Cura’s a fantastic slicer, but kindof a terrible program. They gave up on ARM support a while ago. And their dependency situation is majorly out of control. To the point that Gentoo has literally given up on supporting it and maintaining a working package.

Because fuck you, that’s why.

• Microsoft

Saved you a click.

Before I read the body of the post, I was going to recommend “gl;hf” (the only podcast I’ve really listened to in quite a while), but they don’t stay on topic. There is no topic, really. It’s just rambling about whatever comes to them as it comes up.

At the beginning of every episode, they start with “welcome to gl;hf, the world’s first podcast in gaming.” And the running joke is that they rarely talk about gaming at all.

Largely they talk about being prolific career YouTube content creators, but they may delve into random stuff like the U.S. National Cheese Reserve or the ethics of eating lab-grown human meat or Uncle Wiggily board games.

On the plus side, they’re always interested in what they’re talking about.

Here’s my GitLab. None of it’s “active” really. I’m the only contributor to most things I have on GitLab. At least some of the things there, if they started getting attention and interest, I might very likely make them active. But for now, they’re just out there and may or may not receive further updates. Though I’m working on other projects I specifically intend to publish as FOSS in the future.

• Simple-CSS-Shrinker was made for a web-based game I wrote back in the day. I ought to dust that game off and publish it.
• JeSter, the JS tester. A really simple JS unit testing framework that runs in a browser and doesn’t require Node or V8 or anything. Made in service to the same game I mentioned in the previous item.
• pystocking was basically in service of hydrogen_proxy
• hydrogen_proxy is a “scriptable HTTP proxy” written in Python. Definitely intended for privacy kind of applications. But it’s kinda slow. I have in the back of my mind to rewrite it in Go, but it’s not high on my priority list. (I’m honestly mulling the idea of quitting the use of browsers all together if I can wrangle a way to do that that doesn’t involve switching to a bunch of proprietary software. The main browsers are bullshit these days.)
• GoVTT was written because I wanted to play a TTRPG with friends remotely. It’s a web-based virtual tabletop application that you can self-host. I may some day offer hosting for it. (Like, if you want to use it but don’t want to be bothered to go through the hassle of hosting it yourself, maybe I’ll offer to host it for a small fee.) No guarantees, though, except that it’ll always be FOSS and it’ll always be an option to self-host.
• codecomic is a domain-specific language for making simple webcomics or story boards. I made it because I wanted to be able to include webcomics/story boards in my game mastering notes, which are managed with a system that I should also publish as FOSS.

My main side-projects right now that I haven’t published yet are:

• A domain-specific language for building 3d game assets. Roughly speaking, FreeCAD is to OpenSCAD as Blender is to what I’m currently working on building. (It’s in the early stages right now. I intend for it to be able to do modeling, rigging, animations, textures, normals, etc. All in the DSL’s syntax. I’m making progress, but of course that project is ridiculously ambitious. We’ll see where it is in a year.)
• A framework for rapidly prototyping 3d-printable mechanical keyboards. (Also pretty ridiculously ambitious.) The image below is a sneak peak at the first keyboard I’m intending to build with it. Some day.

♫ All along the eastern front ♫

♫ People line up to receive ♫

♫ She got the power in her hands ♫

♫ To shock you like you won’t believe ♫