Hardware
Turning my GitHub Universe badge into an environmental monitor
Two I2C sensors, a badge app and a 3D-printed mount. The first platform was too big; the final version fits above the screen and keeps the wiring underneath.
Economics
The cost-of-living blame war: tariffs, inflation and who pays
How war and trade policy reach household bills, with a country-by-country look at the biggest economies and the places hit hardest.
ESP32
I turned the Cheap Yellow Display into a tiny desk command centre
A cheap no-PSRAM ESP32 screen now tracks aircraft, watches a 3D printer, checks the weather and network, and securely updates itself from GitHub.
Artificial Intelligence
AI can do the task. Who gets to keep the job?
National employment data do not show an AI jobs apocalypse, but freelancers have already lost work, junior hiring bears watching, and public company corrections show why task gains are not headcount facts.
Experiments
I ran a Wi-Fi router from a power bank until it died. Twice.
Two overnight tests, one travel router, a USB power meter, five-second telemetry and a camera teaching itself to read a very confused battery display.
Coffee
The best vanilla latte, in writing (all credit to Morgan Eckroth)
Morgan Eckroth already made the definitive vanilla latte video. This is that video, typed out, for anyone who'd rather read a recipe than scrub through one with sticky hands. Her recipe, her tricks, her video embedded up top. I just wrote it down.
Open Source
I built my own self-hosted media converter (and you can run it too)
Tired of sketchy converter sites with ad-walls, size limits, and files that never come back clean? I built an open-source, self-hosted video converter, audio extractor, GIF maker and social-media downloader. Here it is.
VRChat
A little wrist button for clipping VRChat
Leaving VRChat just to hit record in OBS was killing the fun, so I built a wrist button that records clips for me without ever taking the headset off. Here's what it does and who it's for.
AI art
Is AI art really art? An honest look at the hate, the myths, and where I stand
The "it is stolen" myth, the criticisms that actually land, why the backlash runs so deep, and the one thing I will not budge on: label it.
welcome
Welcome to Wild & Wandering
VRChat explorer and certified cuddler. Notes on worlds, projects and bots, plus where to find me.