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AI & Life: Balancing Personal Struggles and Growth
Since the passing of my stepmother, I have been less active on my blog, focusing instead on AI and various community issues. My history with programming and chatbots, particularly ELIZA and neural networks, influences my work in automated coding & music. Read More
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Bringing AI Processing Home
Rising AI token costs have pushed me to bring more research processing in-house. By reviving an aging gaming computer with a new SSD, Ubuntu, Ollama, and OpenClaw, I hope to run overnight document analysis locally. Read More
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Seeing Front Royal Through Dad’s Eyes
My father spent a day exploring Front Royal with me following the loss of his wife. Together, we visited community landmarks, met remarkable people, and discovered that the town’s greatest strength isn’t its places, but the relationships that connect them. Read More
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The “She” Reference, the Budget Clip, and the FOIA Confusion
A FOIA timeline note mentioning my name appears to have caused confusion about a “she” reference in Warren County’s budget discussion. The record shows it came from my website, not from an effort to identify a whistleblower. Read More
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Restoring the Beginning of All Dreams
From an old résumé CD to GeoCities.ws, I trace how Shoomi’s dream-themed homepage survived, then rebuild its lost 90s magic with webfonts, MIDI parsing, canvas applets, color tools, and a new hit counter service. Read More
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When Security Got Heavy
A failed Forgejo push exposed a three-hour server outage. Recent installs like Forgejo and Nextcloud seemed suspicious at first, but diagnostics pointed to an aggressive ImunifyAV scanner. After mitigation, I resized the server and planned safer monitoring. Read More
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Unsupported Should Not Mean Blind
After a DigitalOcean monitoring failure filled my server logs, the final support answer was “unsupported.” This follow-up explains why disabling disk metrics is not enough, and why safer filesystem collection modes could help unusual server environments. Read More
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My Journey To Forgejo
After years of SourceSafe locks, corrupted repositories, private repo limits, and subscription friction, I set up my own Forgejo server to preserve old projects, migrate code from GitHub, and regain control over where my work lives. Read More
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Tiny Pockets Press
A tiny bookmaking experiment became a deeper dive into vibe coding, browser storage, signatures, covers, QR codes, image exports, and the strange joy of turning 100-word stories into printable miniature books. Read More
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Inside the Sapphire R-91: First Look
After discovering a 1986 AMI Rowe Sapphire 91 jukebox at Stone Branch Center for the Arts, we explored its robotic mechanics, overflowing coin slot, mysterious modifications, spinning record carousel, and possibilities for restoring it with modern technology & local creative content. Read More