Devlogs
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41 posts on homelab builds, browser games, self-hosted tools and the occasional expensive mistake.
Your Girlfriend Experience: An Uncensored, Private AI Girlfriend That Writes First
Live chat or email on one memory, no filters on the conversation, photos that are always her, and a privacy model most AI girlfriend apps ca…
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Silicon Pirates in August: Work Orders, Gifts, and a Tour That Finally Teaches
55% of new sessions never placed a device. August fixed the first ten minutes, then gave you a reason to come back: work orders, gifts, coll…
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Bug #9: The Mining Rig That Stopped Paying (and Why It Was Always RACK)
A player reported a crypto rig that randomly stopped paying out forever. It was three bugs holding hands: a ratchet, an uncapped catch-up lu…
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I Sent a Photo Between Two Phones Using Sound (and Two Saner Methods)
Building Beam: a web page that moves files between two devices with no upload and no app — over Wi-Fi, as a stream of QR codes, or as sound …
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I Turned My Gaming PC Into a Proxmox Node — and Got the Games Back Through a Stream
How a Ryzen gaming PC became the homelab's Proxmox compute node: GPU passthrough, eight container migrations, and the games back via Moonlig…
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CoatQuote: So a Contractor Doesn't Have to Guess at Flake Ratios in Their Truck
CoatQuote turns a job walk into an itemized, professional coating quote before the contractor is back in the truck — surface prep, primer, f…
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Pixelateme: Privacy Tool by Day, Pixel Art Machine by Night
A free, no-signup tool that either hides faces for privacy or turns any photo into retro pixel art — and nothing ever leaves your browser ei…
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Sign Forge Studio: Wrap a Whole Van Without Touching a Single Sheet of Vinyl
Design 3D vehicle wraps, mock up storefront signage on real photos, estimate vinyl by the square foot, and get it e-signed — all before anyo…
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Signs613: The One Business in This List You Can Actually Drive Past
Everything else in this network lives in a browser tab. Signs613 makes yard signs, banners and storefront signage you can touch, in Bellevil…
Read the log →Silicon Pirates: Build. Break. Defend. Repeat Until It Stops Breaking.
A homelab rack simulator where power, networking and storage behave like real infrastructure — because someone here has actually lost a ZFS …
Read the log →Inside the Rack Simulator: DHCP Faults, Thermal Profiles, and a Marketplace That Remembers Everything
The live, playable build of Silicon Pirates: wire real power and network topology, trade items with a permanent ownership history, and nothi…
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SiteSentry: Because 'A Client Told Me My Site Was Down' Should Never Happen Again
Automated SSL, security header, SEO and broken-link checks on every site you manage — with an email alert before your client notices, not af…
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