Mordenstar

A bunch of mods I've created for Doom over the years.

Here we take a look at some examples of poorly generated images from the perspective of the limitations of the user and how to go about fixing them.

Is your guardian angel also a quantum-level horrific life draining monster?

In this article, we cover some brands of sweets that really stretch the definition of candy.

In this brief review, we take a closer look at some of the more problematic puzzle designs in one of the most famous game franchises of all time: King’s Quest.

A brief foray into the memories of a millenial who as a child would have almost certainly been one of the first pioneers to be eaten by wolves along the Oregon Trail.

Remember Scantron tests and the gestapo-level of strict rules around using a Number 2 pencil?

In this article we explore how a musician might go from a melodic motif all the way to a full-fledged song using generative AI as a collaborative partner.

Exploring how AI can transform an original piano composition into a chamber orchestra arrangement while preserving the core melody.

Testing Gemini Flash 2.5's photo editing capabilities with challenging before and after comparisons

In this article, we discuss how we might achieve a digitization of the conscious mind.

Demonstrating the power of AI-powered photo editing with before and after comparisons

What if the Q Continuum from Star Trek created their own variant of BASIC?

This article tries to see how the SOTA GenAI models fare against famous historic deepfakes.

In this article, we put 4o, the latest multimodal image generative system by OpenAI, through its paces.

In this article, we argue that anonymizing defendants' identities during trials is crucial to prevent the halo effect from compromising jury impartiality and undermining the fairness of our legal system.

This article represents a thorough investigation into the strange disappearance of half of my socks, and the consequences will never be the same.

In this article, we propose how Aladdin might have solved his genie problems by exploiting loopholes in the construction of wishes.

In this article, we take a look at how, a 12 billion parameter transformer model, Flux, compares against the SOTA generative model DALL-E 3 using a variety of examples.

In this article, we propose a wishlist of things we would love to see in a future IDE.

This article presents a humorous and critical analysis of three biblical stories, featuring characters like Elisha, Isaac, and Solomon, through a modern lens.

This article explores creating a means of evaluating new job opportunities based on four key factors - Meaning, Knowledge, People, and Compensation.

This article introduces an Obsidian to Astro exporter, a tool designed to simplify the process of moving a blog from Wordpress to a static site generated by Astro, a Typescript-based static site generator.

How a young boy learned the importance of only pulling computer related pranks while they were a minor and other such stories.

From Sony's metallic clanker Aibo (the poor man's Blitz) to the humble Chia Pet, nothing screams "21st-century millenial ennui" more than our love affair with artificial pets.

Collapse sort is a "revolutionary new" sorting algorithm that takes full advantage of the AMAZING qualities of Javascript arrays and their dynamic nature.

Behind the scenes of building a Discord bot that generates progressively more detailed images of people and places as players race to guess them in a live Pictionary-style game.

Sean Astin shows off his technical chops in the TV series Stranger Things by writing a brute force attack using BASIC code.