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Notes from building things, Hytale mods, AI-assisted music, perp markets, and the static pipeline that serves all of it. No schedule, no filler: written when there is something worth writing down.
Building Laya: an AI companion that actually follows you
Most "companion" mods are a bark file and a waypoint. Here is what goes into making one that fights, gathers and remembers. And why the hard part is not the AI.
How I get a usable track out of Suno
Prompting is the smallest part of the job. The workflow that turns a generated clip into something with a beginning, a middle and an end.
One command, no build server
How this site deploys: a single Node script that syncs live data, restages the output and pushes to Cloudflare Pages, plus the catches I hit doing it.
Funding rates are a thermometer, not a signal
What the funding rate on a perpetual future really tells you, how to read it without overfitting, and the mistake almost everyone makes first.
Reading a wallet without fooling yourself
A profitable address on a leaderboard is not a strategy. Survivorship bias, sample size, and the checks that separate a track record from a lucky streak.
Making pixel art survive a 4K screen
Pixel fonts and chunky borders look great until they go blurry on a phone. The handful of CSS rules that keep a pixel aesthetic crisp on any display.