New Webserver, Who Dis?

December 22, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

A couple months ago I bought one of those little fist-sized computers to replace my big Dell computer as my web server.  I stuck it inside my 3d printed retro computer case that I used as a prop for my roleplaying games, but the plan was always to switch everything over one day.

This morning is that day, jumping through all the technical hoops to copy things over, get it all configured, re-enable SSL, and all the other annoying steps.  I even had copilot rewrite my ancient Classic ASP pages with all their security flaws into a more modern language.  It took a lot of handholding, but eventually I got it all up and running again.

It should theoretically be faster, with a solid state drive and faster CPU.  I still have a few more steps remaining, but I wanted to actually get this on the Internet and post a story to prove to myself that it shows up.

Traveller

December 19, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

There was a deal on the classic Traveller roleplaying game books.  I have most of the physical copies from my childhood - originals from the 70s and 80s.  It's really the one RPG I played regularly as a kid, and I loved making worlds and ships and adventures.  Sometimes I think not much has changed.

I continue to play with all the AI generation tools and have recently been vibe coding out a system that should help me referee one of the big adventure modules.  The players fly a merchant ship around, moving cargo and going from system to system having adventures.  There's a bit of tedium and players often need to break out a spreadsheet to deal with cargo and maintenance and salaries.  Fortunately computers are very good at this sort of thing, and I've been coding up something to help with that part.

I was also tinkering with some of the picture to 3d model AI tools.  It's not perfect, but better than my modeling skills.  I did some additional manual tinkering and am pretty happy with the end results.

We'll see if this turns into something more real, but I'm having a great time putting it all together.