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Bridging a Century of Telephony
A chance encounter led to a hands-on journey through communication history—rotary dials, ringing bells, and a century-old crank phone. Now, those mechanical signals are being translated into something new, as an antique system becomes a living, interactive telephone exchange. Read More
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Turning Memorization Into A Puzzle
While learning to recite passages for Freemasonry, I built a flash-card generator that turns text into puzzle pieces for memorization. The open-source tool now helps anyone reconstruct speeches, historical documents, or study passages while learning structure, cadence, and meaning. Read More
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Small Batch Mug Sublimation Lessons
A day of early-morning sublimation testing turned into a crash course in mug printing. From ventilation and cutting templates to heat press quirks, tape marks, and uneven heating, each mistake revealed something new about dialing in a reliable mug workflow. Read More
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Dialing In a Sublimation Mug Workflow
A simple plan to print custom mugs turned into a full day of experimentation. Measuring mugs, designing templates, optimizing taping tools, troubleshooting heat presses, and questioning assumptions revealed just how many small details shape a reliable sublimation workflow. Read More
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Converting an EcoTank for Sublimation
Unboxing and converting an Epson EcoTank ET-2800 into a sublimation printer turned into a small adventure involving fourteen pieces of blue tape, oddly worded ink warnings, Wi-Fi troubleshooting, and a reminder that sometimes the most interesting part of technology is the human experience around it. Read More
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A Budget-Friendly Sublimation Setup
A small mug fundraiser continues evolving into a production system. After estimating equipment costs and bringing sublimation printing in-house, new orders now total sixty mugs—revealing how quickly a simple makerspace experiment can become a small-scale manufacturing workflow. Read More
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Almost There: The Final Compression
I’m finishing a full Flickr migration—restoring display names through the API, converting legacy HTML into Gutenberg blocks, rebuilding maps and Exif data, and compressing 1.6 GB of images into a sustainable archive without losing attribution or detail. Read More
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Reviving a 1999 Scriptlet
Originally written in 1999 as a VBScript Scriptlet, this animated experiment layered GIFs to move eyes and toggle a mouth. Revived and modernized in JavaScript, it preserves the late-90s web charm while shedding Internet Explorer–era constraints. Read More
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Racing the Hundred
My 100 Word Stories buffer ran dry, leaving me racing weekly deadlines while forty-four empty drafts wait. Each story becomes narration, design, reflection, and AI imagery—disciplined microfiction wrapped in cyberpunk styling, built on constraint, structure, and measurable creative momentum. Read More
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Ink, Water, and Words
An experimental day of 1881 block printing, unused ritual water bowls, and a thoughtful Writers Saloon converged into a meditation on constraint. Ink failed, wood chipped, words were weighed, and I was reminded that expression always meets responsibility. Read More