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Tic-Tac-Toe and Crystal Palace 9
I trained a compact tic-tac-toe AI model called Palace-9, which integrates modern training workflows. Challenges included browser visualization versus deployment, complex training processes, and tokenizer issues, leading to future project planning for a smaller model named Crystal-9. Read More
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Correcting History, One Character at a Time
After correcting 7,626 errors in third-party digitized Warren County newspapers, I tested OCR and AI models to see whether they could improve archival search. But the archive’s rules ask: How can people contribute responsibly with AI assistance? Read More
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Analyzing Social Media & Email Data
After years of treating my social-media exports as dormant backups, I am using local AI to turn Gmail and Facebook archives into searchable evidence: preserving private history, recovering forgotten projects, and gathering facts before deciding what stories belong in public. Read More
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What the full archive says about me
A source-backed self-portrait drawn from a completed archive: a developer, maker, archivist, volunteer, and former virtual-world broadcaster tracing a consistent habit of repairing fragile systems, preserving useful history, and making technical and civic work easier for people to understand. Read More
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A partial self-portrait from an unfinished archive
An AI-assisted pass through a vast WordPress archive reveals a persistent pattern: learning through hands-on creation, probing systems for hidden failure modes, championing civic transparency, and translating complex technical curiosity into tangible tools, public history, and active community participation. Read More
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ChatGPT Tried to Explain Me
After years of conversations about technology, history, memoirs, civic issues, creativity, and absurd humor, I asked ChatGPT to describe who I am. The result was a detailed portrait of an archivist, community-minded technologist, storyteller, and observer of systems, people, & preservation. Read More
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FOIA and Structure
Ahead of the Finance/Audit Committee dissolution vote, I used the postponement window to compile targeted public records, agenda timelines, and financial signal reports—replacing speculation with documentation and showing what disciplined, modular FOIA work actually looks like in practice. Read More
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The Buffer Has Arrived
After testing a high-impedance PM-1 buffer, I confirmed my piezo signal path is no longer loading the pickup. Harmonics remain stable, decay improves, and measurements reflect the instrument — whether steel tongue drum, kazoo, slide whistle, or rubber chicken. Read More
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FOIA and Sanity
I document how filing FOIA requests became a systems exercise: organizing folders, negotiating costs, extracting data, tracking timelines, and respecting staff constraints. The goal isn’t scandal, but boring transparency that produces usable reports, preserves institutional memory, and improves oversight governance. Read More
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On Being Smart Without Feeling Smart
I’ve never been sure how smart I am. Instead of chasing a number, I treated years of conversation as data and asked an AI to reflect it back. What emerged wasn’t a score, but a shape—uneven, contextual, and human. Read More