The everyday
of Mey.

A button to check my enabled mods, show which portrait pieces are missing, and give me the south-facing in-game image for reference. Wouldn't that be nice?

For Portraits of the Rim, the Big and Small update sent me down a rabbit hole deep enough that I needed help keeping track. So I built a little set of tools, missing-asset finder and checklist keeper, with the help of robot-teacher & friendly-helper ChatGPT.

Double-click, get an accurate report. Runs offline, no LLM required.  A connected file isn't necessarily finished art, and a report can't replace looking in-game. But boy, does it help—and oh my, there's still so much to draw!

Less folder hunting, more time drawing for Twopenny’s Portraits of the Rim . A little ''automated'' digital organization for my otherwise ''artisanal'' digital hobby.

I wanted to cover my ugly, barren shelf edges.

So I went to buy the thing made just for that... Lol, jk.

Instead, I started learning OpenSCAD to design my own parametrically customizable 3D prints to share on MakerWorld.

The vision: a U-shaped trim that slips over a shelf edge, with adjustable dimensions and a choice of plain, hexagon or Asanoha patterns.

I experimented with cut-through and debossed details, and ways to print longer trims in sections.

I also have two pattern obsessions. You might have guessed the first: “pointy side up” hexagons. More recently, I've fallen for the Asanoha kumiko pattern. Naturally, both need to end up on my shelves.

I want to be the very best, that no one ever was.

I'm on a (lifelong) journey to learn ALL the CAD software. The list is already long. FreeCAD was my latest addition, and now it's OpenSCAD's turn.

ChatGPT replaced my old method of “searching Google until I found answers or code to copy” (I never posted in forums, only lurked, so you can imagine how long that could take back then). I used its browser-based chat, with reasoning effort set to Extra High (because that costs no credits... yet...), to help me learn OpenSCAD, build and iterate on the model.

SolidWorks is my CAD comfort zone (I learned it in school and use it every day for work). I'm discovering that OpenSCAD is a different way of thinking: instead of building geometry visually, I'm describing it in code.

And just like that, my second MakerWorld contribution is born. The collection has begun.

I'm turning staying organised into a game.

In Keepling, every project gets its own room: tasks, notes, focus and time tracking. The idea? As I work on a project, its room grows. Progress I can actually see. [Digitally] touch.

A thriving room next to a barren one? Hopefully, the nudge my brain needs to remember that project I've neglected for months.

I'm also building the Persistant-core.

A contraction of Personal Assistant, his name is also the French word for persistent. Phase 1 will see him integrate into Codex, Obsidian and Keepling. He keeps track of preferences and corrections between sessions. I’m using my cat’s likeness for his avatar. :3

Student first. Notice, ask, learn from corrections. I can already review proposed lessons and decide what he should retain.

The bigger dream? A companion that learns, remembers and follows me across my digital life. My PC, watch, home… Think Cortana in Halo or the PCs in Chobits... or maybe more like Rotom in Pokémon?

So far, Keepling's rooms and productivity tools work. Room growth, automatic lesson recording, voice and cross-device presence are still ahead.

For now, it's a prototype with a cat.

I wanted to fix an old song: bring my voice forward, make the words clearer and give the guitar more personality. Normally, I’d re-record and edit in Audacity, Adobe Audition or BandLab.

But it’s the future. Why just fix my song when I can rethink the entire process?

I already know generating a song from scratch has become ridiculously easy.

This time, the question is different: what can be done to an existing piece? Can I build all the tools to do it again?

And so, Codex Musique was born.

With Codex, I brought together my recordings, original sessions and lyrics to compare mixes from separate vocal takes, not just one MP3.

I went app-hunting through Pinokio, trained a model of my singing voice in Applio, and experimented with Maestro (ACE-Step) and SeedVC.

Now I’ve got a little listening room to compare mixes and save favourites. The voice still needs work. Of course it does.

Still an experiment. Still my song.

My archive has a diary now. I added a Journal for what I’m making, trying and figuring out along the way. Each note appears in date order in the Journal and on its project’s page, keeping the little updates with their story.

Stories, notes and pictures now share one editor too. I can write a bit, save it and come back later. Codex helps with the first draft; I get to poke at the words.

The latest notes have their own charcoal corner on Home. A little more everyday life in the archive. :3