Why I Open-Sourced a Deterministic I-Ching Engine (Or: The Smallest Verifiable Compute You Can Build)Extracting the deterministic core of 8-Bit Oracle into a standalone library, and why 'same seed, same hexagram, every time' matters more than you'd think for decentralized AI.
December 1, 2025
Testing Twelve AI Image Models with Marcel Proust's Madeleine (Or: How We Chose Hunyuan for Hexagram 24)Upgrading 8-Bit Oracle's Hexagram 24: Return with Proust's famous involuntary memory scene, then systematically testing 12 diverse AI image models through fal.ai to find which one actually captures that precise moment when past and present collapse together.
November 18, 2025
On Going Legit on Twitter/X (Or: How I Learned to Stop Scraping and Love the Rate Limit)A three-day journey through Twitter API v2, v1.1, OAuth, rate limits, and the gradual acceptance that you can't actually hack your way around free-tier constraints
November 10, 2025