i write about random tech, side projects, retro games & coding with ai — hand-assembled in a text editor, served from a pi under the stairs.
i grew up on crts, game boys & gamefaqs. i still do most of my thinking with a compiler. this site is the slow version of whatever i'd otherwise be shouting into a timeline — longer, quieter, no ads, no trackers, no popup.
each post gets its own layout because a post about synthwave novels shouldn't look like a post about command-line tools. that used to be hard. it isn't anymore.
Every year I reinstall it and feel the same thing: nothing since has matched this. A love letter, a defense, and a theory of hit detection.
Writing specs first used to feel like a productivity tax. With an AI pair, it's the fastest way I know to build software. A field report from six months in.
I re-read Dan Simmons' Hyperion every four years. Each time a different character's story becomes my favorite. This time it was the scholar's.
A practical walkthrough: the manifest format, hook points, how skills get discovered, and three small plugins I shipped for my own dotfiles.
An annual post. This year: a tiny OLED budget tracker, a mechanical keyboard I actually finished, and one terrible lamp.
A defense of playing Link's Awakening on the bus in 2026. On limits, battery life, and the moral clarity of a four-shade green screen.
Hi, I'm m1xl447. I've been writing here since 2019 about the intersection of new tech and old hardware. No ads, no tracker, no newsletter popup. Just posts.
Written in a text editor, served from a Raspberry Pi under the stairs. The hero image is a pixel-art study I made one evening while waiting for a migration to finish.