Over the past four weeks, my nights have been filled with JWT bearer tokens, API design decisions, PHP rabbit holes, custom WordPress plugins, and a fully bespoke theme built from the ground up. Tonig
Forge42Engine Keeps Rolling – Spells, Systems, and Sleepless Progress
Forge42Engine is officially firing on all cylinders. Lately, I’ve been deep in the weeds building out the core rules system — specifically entering spells, defining their effects, and wiring up how th
Memory, Meaning, & Machinery: A New 4-Part Series on RAG, NPCs, and Artificial Cognition
I’ve just wrapped up writing a new four-part article series on Medium titled: Memory, Meaning, & Machinery This series is a deep technical exploration of how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) t
Changes are Coming
The heart of my portfolio, the place where I show off my AI tinkering, tuning, and world-building, is the land of Tharendell. For anyone just tuning in: during my first semester of grad school, I took
Flux Hijinks
Up until about 72 hours ago, I was a die-hard Kandinsky fan. My go-to model for AI art. My trusty paintbrush in the digital realm.But somewhere between “almost good” and “why is this elf holding a toa
Horror Movies + Coding = A Great Saturday Night!
Before I get into the nitty-gritty of tonight’s bug-squishing and feature-tuning session, I have to talk about how I spent my evening — watching Macabre Theater with the legendary Ivonna Cadaver! I fi
Building the Portfolio, Leveling Up the NPCs, & Real-Time SysOp Chat
I’m in full upload mode over here—there’s a pile of work I want to get onto the site for you all to poke and prod. A couple of my papers are with professors right now for a sanity check on clarity and
NPC
The first set of AI-driven NPCs is up and ready to chat: https://babblebaz.com/npc-ai. They live in Tharendell, the fantasy world I’m building in public—and you’re invited to help. After you finish po