How I use AI in 2026
A summary of my last year experimenting
Dave Snider
A chaotic good web designer based out of Annapolis, MD that builds in the browser.
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An activity feed for one
Slurping content from my public profiles into one feed
My favorite TV shows
An unordered list of some tv that left an impact
Creating for a niche
The joys of a small, passionate audience
Troll trouble miniatures
Painted miniatures from my Kingmaker campaign
Claude tips for 3D work
Lessons learned from piloting in the third dimension
I miss email
Faking a personal conversation in the modern age
Running Playwright with GPU powered Actions
How I got Table Slayer's test suite running fast on GitHub
Counter Slayer
Create trays and boxes for your war game counters
Modular card deck draw
3D print files for a modular, magnetic card holder for board games
Forward into the new year (2026)
Good times were had, now lets set some goals
Cork board
A simple cork board for my game room
Table Slayer
Build and manage animated battle maps for in person RPG games on a TV
Svelte 5 with ChatGPT
Some tips for getting ChatGPT to understand runes
A brief sojourn
I'm taking a year off to learn how to build things again.
Svelte 5 theming with vanilla CSS
A nice pattern to handle theming in Svelte 5 systems.
Bookmarks from the command line
Fish, FZF and Xata combine to make a speedy bookmark service
My favorite movies
An unordered list of some films that left an impact
Build your own screenshot sharing application
A detailed tutorial on how the musuem works
It belongs in a museum
Two decades of screenshots, now searchable
I'm a Linux
Here's to the crazy-ones, the misfts and the rebels
Unwritten social rules around GitHub PRs
How to win friends and avoid enemies while you work
Customizing the Linux Desktop
A YouTube series that walks through a bespoke Linux setup
Tabletop game table
This tv-top game table allows me to digitize my DnD experience
Smokeless fire pit
The result of a snowy winter and an ambundance of fresh fire wood
Branch off of main
Musings on the curiosity and skills of the ruling class
Kid's desk
A small woodworking project for my kids
Understanding Engineers as a Designer
In pursuit of the love of smart people
Learn your tools
Carry your skills with you from job to job
Good luck San Francisco
I left my heart in San Francisco
Make a terminal theme with Base16 and Flavours
A YouTube series that shows how to make themable terminals
DnD for Tabletop Simulator
A YouTube video showing off my setup for virutal DnD games
New year's resolution 2021: teach one thing a week
Contributing to the great Internet wave
NNN file manager tutorial
Ditch your files app and give this terminal based file manager a try
The town of Bellhold
Bringing watercolor art to my DnD sessions
Markdown plugins for Vim
A short video that covers helpful plugins to work with Markdown in Vim
RC car parts
Christmas is saved when I 3D print a small toy part
Split ortholinear keyboard
My bespoke keyboard setup involves a custom wood case and a split layout
DM notes from my last DND adventure
The gang drinks a potion to travel to Detroit and defeat Alice Cooper with the help of Kiss.
Button box
My flight sim addictions leads into wiring up USB controllers
Bartop arcade
A fun arcade build just in time for Christmas
Chess board
I spent a weekend building a maple and walnut chess board for my daughter.
Bed frame repair work
Often I find repair work more satisfying than making something from scratch
Barovia with watercolor pencils
Prepping for a new DND campaign. This is the first time I've ever used watercolor pencils.
Krell the cleric
Near the conclusion of a Pathfinder game we'd been running for 4 years I decided to take the figurine I'd used for Krell and blow him up into a full mini-statue
Miter saw table
Built a miter table after years of doing miter cuts on my table saw.
Princes of the Apocolypse art
For one of my DnD campaigns I made some custom sketches for the maps
Standing desk
I built a custom standing desk out of beach wood
Kids play table
A near copy of my copy table, but now with an art roll
Initiative tracker for Dungeons and Dragons
It's basically just a block of wood with a thick sheet of steel in the middle.