Brief update here... the Oracle Assistant is available in the tsn Discord server, and I've started a Slack version, but I haven't gotten anywhere with it. Even some of the Discord functionality has broken because some of the APIs have changed, and I haven't bothered to develop against it.

But we do ...

I don't think I ever checked back for a reply until now, but that's really cool. I also think about the folks that all at one point had this forum in common, and now have all gone off on their own paths. Makes me wonder a couple things:

Would I ever learn to stop replying to everyone's posts with ...

Here we are nearly 2 years later, and while things have changed, and become more consistent with a repeatable schedule, especially now that we're in the throws of a pandemic. Unfortunately for me, it finally hit today that the repetition had to break a little.

For the past *checks calendar* 16 ...

This person does not exist. This is an AI-generated face, from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/. And this is the face I'm using to represent [[Oracle]].

Back in November 2019, I had an idea to turn [[Oracle]] into a JARVIS-like assistant for doing my work-related, repetitive tasks, but I wanted ...

Funny enough, my lack of desire for Facebook for being over-saturated, ended me up to Reddit these days, and yet somehow I still manage to walk in here from time to time lol
Maybe it's the quarantine that gives me some extra time to dwiddle through the internets.


I too ended up swapping ...

Progress is being made, and code is being written. I'm also doing some incremental updates to the current tsn8 templates, since upgrading to phpBB 3.2.8 brought with it some template changes that I could not successfully reconcile with the custom work I did for tsn8...so some things are broken in ...

I guess it's time for the yearly "I should redesign the site" consideration, and it apparently comes around every December, for the past 15 years, since I first had to redesign the site after being forcibly removed from ETBU back at the end of 2002... thus spawning the first break away from etubers ...

Pretend it's 2050.
Humankind have already executed on their plan to send humans to Mars during the 2030s.

Lo and behold! Microscopic life forms are discovered in a cave, underground, near the poles where the last vestiges of solid ice-water remain, with enough nutrients from that water which has ...

It appears that facebook is indeed declining. And I know I've toyed around with the idea of revamping this latest iteration several times, and apparently it's always at this time of year, every year.

This year I will probably actually look into it, since I probably need to do updates to the phpBB ...

I don't dare go back through the "looking glass" to see what I have said on the topic of religion in the past. It will only bring a cringe-worthy feeling of embarrassment, in the vein of re-reading old journal posts, or of the self-righteous "Bible Study" threads where I thought I had some "amazing ...

If you're going to be in DFW for QuakeCon this year, join us for the annual tsnBreakfast.

This year QuakeCon is held at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, so the breakfast venue is:

Old West Cafe
600 W Northwest Hwy
Ste A
Grapevine, TX 76051

Meet at the restaurant by 9:00am , and let me know if ...

It was no secret that I wanted to wait until I was 30 to have children; and that I wanted to have twins, so that they "would have someone to play with and leave me alone."

Obviously the reasoning was as short-sighted as one would expect from an early 20-something with no real responsibilities ...

Looking at this site's current design today, it's obvious to me how much of my 2012-2014 job is present in the style, as I work through the code at that job now that I rejoined it in 2017.

There is a mixture of what we were doing at the time in our product, and what I wanted to copy from the ...

Yeah, they are. I sometimes think I want to get back into the social network game, but then I realize it's all outdated stuff - the dominant social networks have been online for a decade now, and the younger kids (which I can't/won't keep up with) are turning to direct, ethereal messaging ...

I'm glad I didn't put a lot of time into this design... seeing as how the site didn't really take off during the relaunch, and given that I had no idea what I was really doing as a designer.

I will say though that I am at least getting to do something along these lines with my current job (having ...