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Ai-Generating Manga Is Tough

  • It’s been a while, my last post here was July 2025, and most of what I’ve been doing since is a manga generator that I’m …

The Go-Top Becomes a Homelab

  • The laptop For years I carried a laptop covered in Golang stickers everywhere I went. The go-top. It was ancient, and it only kept working …

Rebuilding My NixOS Machine With One Command

  • I moved to a new machine recently and it went badly. A few things were missing, a few things were slightly different, and I spent more time …

Weekly Dev Update July 14th, 2025

  • Had a baby, attending conferences & meetups, interviews & C Game-Dev Hello, World! My wife and I brought our second child into the …

Weekly Dev Update 13

  • Project Muse Finished | Oh Javascript… | Project Muse Finished Project Muse started in January, and finally, I have made the final …

Weekly Dev Update 12

  • 7 Days Sick | Muse In Composer Last week I experienced some of the worst influenza I’ve had in several years. I remember being fairly …

Weekly Dev Update 11

  • Mentoring | Pokemon Nuzlocke | Meetups | HTTP Server Presentations This week I began coaching a developer, went to some fun meetups, worked …

Weekly Dev Update 10

  • Email Service | gRPC Round 2 | AWS SES TLDR: In project Muse (security-camera project that uses AI to summarize and send alerts from …

Weekly Dev Update 9

  • Weekly Dev Update #9 Over the last week, most of my work has been contributing to my Project Muse, out of work, as well as hosting the first …

Weekly Dev Update 8

  • RTSP Server | Serverless | Microservices | Go Web Dev More of an update on how the year has gone nearly 3 months in, where projects are at, …

Yearly Dev Update: 2025

  • Repo Status Updates of The Year SaorsaDev Blog complete This blog was made just this year, believe it or not! I made it to try and draw me …

Weekly Dev Update 7

  • More Game-Dev | Vacation | Focus Game Dev Since beginning to work on my game, I haven’t made many posts on the blog. I have been …

Weekly Dev Update 6

  • GoGameDevDiscord This week I made a Discord Server for Game Developers using Golang: https://discord.gg/fhDnKr2Q GoGameDevProgress My own …

Weekly Dev Update 5

  • Professional API Research At work, I had been given the opportunity to do a ton of research into what API we plan to use for a service. …

Weekly Dev Update 4

  • Templating Blog Post / Completed Templating/Golang/Postgres Work Project / GameBoy Color Development Templating Blog Post As I struggled …

Weekly Dev Update 3

  • Weekly Dev Update 3 Conference / RAG AI Presentation / Developing New Web Server at Work / Closing thoughts Conference This week I went to a …

Making Sense of Golangs Templating

  • In this article, I want to discuss a flexible approach to templating in Golang. By keeping a flexible approach, I mean my aim is to avoid …

Weekly Dev Update 2

  • Weekly Dev Update Creating Content & Developing User Registration Registration Form This week, what I spent the most time building was …

Simplifying Middleware in Go

  • Simplifying Middleware in Go I want to discuss some of the discoveries, and challenges, I ran into while building a Golang http web server, …

Weekly Dev Update 1

  • Weekly Dev Update 1 Arden Labs Golang in AI Webinar This week I had a chance encounter! I was listening to ‘Cup O’ Go’ …

Weekly Dev Update 0

  • Weekly Dev Update Building a Web Server & Creating This Blog Building a Golang Web Server from the ground up I turned a basic empty …

  • Prism DevBlog: Creature Fusion the challenge I always had this fun
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Ai-Generating Manga Is Tough

It’s been a while, my last post here was July 2025, and most of what I’ve been doing since is a manga generator that I’m honestly not sure I can finish.

The Manga Machine

The idea is you write a short plot, pick a length and some tags, and a pipeline outlines the story, splits it into pages, expands scenes into panels, and generates the art. You get a book you can read in the browser or export as PDF or CBZ. The software side went fine. It’s eight stages, each one writes a file before the next reads it so a job can resume anywhere without paying twice, and the lettering is drawn by my code as SVG instead of by the model, with two bubbles per page and 60 characters per bubble at most.

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The Go-Top Becomes a Homelab

The laptop

For years I carried a laptop covered in Golang stickers everywhere I went. The go-top. It was ancient, and it only kept working because I lived in Neovim on NixOS, which asks very little of a machine. It’s finally out of the backpack, and instead of recycling it I’m turning it into a homelab.

This is the first post in what I expect to be a long series, and I should say up front that there’s no finished system here. There’s a first commit, a mostly empty repo, and a list of things I want to learn.

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