nerdymark.com - Mark LaCore's Blog

Kaleidorabble is in beta: map your Bluesky follower graph, spot automated accounts with receipt-backed scores, and act on it, all in your browser.

I did some reputation management and made the majority of my GitHub repos private.

The free Pokemon Sleep roster analyzer now models Greengrass Expert Mode: main and sub favorite berries, weekly bonuses, and the 15% help-speed penalty.

How I built a Bluesky posting-rate API on two unauthenticated AppView calls per lookup, so it stays fast and cheap even if it goes viral.

In July 1996 I was 15, rendering POV-Ray scenes overnight on the family PC.

I'm attending SCC ARES/RACES' hands-on Introduction to Emergency Communications class in Sunnyvale - ham radio basics for new operators like me (KO6ODW).

How this site auto-posts to Bluesky: blog cross-posts, Steam achievements, NASA fireball alerts, and verification digests, plus the lessons learned.

Make an Ethernet-only printer reachable over Wi-Fi with a Raspberry Pi and parprouted proxy-ARP bridging - no NAT, no port forwards, no printer changes.

A tour of nerdymark.com's free public API: Bay Area public safety incident data, the Caw social feed, ICE sightings, and more - now documented with Swagger.

Introducing Werdy, a free daily word ladder game.

How I replaced plain social preview cards with Playwright page screenshots composited into branded browser-window frames with Pillow and Flask.

Getting my Technician license led me to track NWS radiosondes with an SDR - a whip antenna, clean decodes, then Oakland stopped launching on July 1.

After a month studying the Technician question pool, I passed the exam and earned my amateur radio license.

The original Jeffgoldblumle word game began serving malicious ads.

This tutorial provides a clear walkthrough on using RTL-SDR and PDW to decode pager traffic.

Sad trombone.

Two new browser solvers for Bulls and Cows puzzles: Woodle (words, one at a time) and 4digits (the classic distinct-digit number game).

In Pokémon TCG Pocket, hiding your last login time sinks you to the bottom of friends lists and dries up your trades and gifts.

This look at the cognitive drain of AI orchestration is a relatable wake-up call.

A solver for Jeffgoldblumle, the 12-letter 3-guess word game where the answer is JEFFGOLDBLUM 90% of the time.