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Building a Local Minecraft Skybox Generator with SD1.5
Text prompt to 128³ Minecraft room: SD1.5 panorama generation, equirectangular-to-cubemap projection, and CIEDE2000 block color matching — fully offline.
12 min read · May 27, 2026
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MutinySMP: Building a Narrative-Driven Minecraft SMP
How I designed a season-long Minecraft narrative where 50-200 players grow to trust an autonomous entity — then watch that trust fall apart.
Building an AI Dungeon Master That Lives Inside Minecraft
How I built Player2 — a Fabric mod + Python daemon that puts a tool-calling LLM inside Minecraft as a real in-game companion with world manipulation and memory.
Agent Core: Database-Native Tool Calling Baked Into Weights
An open-source LoRA that teaches small language models to think in SQL before grep. 9 tools. 3 databases. 61.3% tool selection accuracy. One consumer GPU.
CAIRN: Whisper for Ambient Sound
A Python CLI that classifies ambient sound in seconds — birds, wind, rain, footsteps, silence. 527 sound classes. One command. JSON sidecars that make your entire archive searchable.
dankMire: A 5-Machine Home Lab Running 4.3 Million Files
Five machines named after Greek gods. 4.3 million indexed files. A media database, a productivity heatmap, and an AI video studio — all running on local hardware with zero cloud dependencies.
FCPXML Pipeline: AI That Edits Like a Human
Describe the video you want. The system finds the clips, sequences them with J-cuts and L-cuts, and generates a Final Cut Pro timeline you can open and refine.
JustIn Context: An Interactive AI Documentary
A documentary where the viewer talks back. An AI that watched 14 years of footage and learned to tell the story. A movement that gives the tool to anyone who needs it.
Naptime's Over: A Heavy Metal Nursery Rhymes Album
17 tracks of thrash, doom, and gothic fury — performed by the same engineer who builds AI models and intelligence platforms. Yes, really.
OMNI: A Personal Intelligence Operating System
25 live data layers on a 3D globe. Natural language commands. AI-powered news translation. One engineer. Zero funding.
SaySee: The AI That Watches Your Video So You Don't Have To
Most video AI just reads the transcript. SaySee actually watches — frame by frame, at the resolution you choose. Then it lets you search 15 years of footage by meaning.
SouthernSky Chat: 114 AI Agents, One Private Platform
A private AI platform where every conversation stays yours. 114 specialized agents — from Zen masters to cybersecurity analysts to HVAC technicians. Voice synthesis. Newsletters. Zero data harvesting.
StankyDanko: The Identity That Kept Creating
Not a portfolio. A character. The version that builds intelligence platforms and heavy metal nursery rhymes from the same desk, because creativity doesn't ask permission.