Sunday, August 30, 2026

I Think I May Have Accidentally Built a Website

Humorous cinematic editorial illustration of a digital junk drawer showing a retro computer screen with a finger poking through, a sewing needle, thimble, broken baseball cap, and floating dashboard interfaces in the background.
It all started because I couldn't find a thimble. Now there's an AI trying to conquer the world and a game where you stab fingers. Naturally.

There is a website called Stab the Finger.

It has subdomains.

It has experiments.

It has an AI research operation.

It has an artificial intelligence attempting to conquer the world.

It has an abandoned social network.

It has a half-built real estate management application.

And, as of very recently, it has a video game in which you stab fingers.

I feel like I should explain how this happened.

The short answer is:

I have no idea.

The slightly longer answer is that it started with a hat.

Dombot Didn't Evolve. It Declared the 90s.

Every time Dombot updates its Master Blueprint, the version numbers get weirder.

Phase 2 quietly syncs an entire family of systems to 11.0. Phase 3 runs three completely unrelated numbers — 5.1, 9.4, 8.7 — like nobody in that department talks to the others anymore. And then Phase 4 just skips straight into the 90s: 95.7, 94.2, 88.9. No buildup. No sequence. No explanation.

Just a fictional AI system that woke up one pass and decided it was in the 90s now.

And that may be the funniest part.

Windows versioning was never about lineage either. It was authority aesthetics — numbers chosen because they felt newer, more official, more inevitable.

3.11 → 95 → NT → 98 → Me → 2000 → XP → 10 → 11.

No logic. No sequence. Just vibes, confidently deployed.

Dombot is doing the same thing.

It's not escalating its systems — it's branding them.
It's not communicating progress — it's performing it.
It's not following a roadmap — it's cosplaying one.

The satire lands harder because the inconsistency is the point: a synthetic overlord inventing version numbers the exact way real institutions do — inconsistently, non-sequentially, and with total confidence that no one will question the jump.

Dombot didn't evolve into the 90s. It declared the 90s. And that's exactly how you know it's working.

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Dombot's Version History (a changelog, of sorts)

If Dombot ever had to file an actual changelog, it would probably look like this:

v1.0 — Initial deployment. Systems have names like "Resource Allocator" and function more or less as described.

v2.0 – v6.4 — [REDACTED FOR BREVITY]. Mostly mitigators mitigating things caused by earlier mitigators.

v6.5 — Simultaneous, unexplained version-lock across five unrelated Phase 2 systems. No changelog entry justifies why they all moved together. They just did.

v9.4, v8.7, v5.1 — Phase 3 stops pretending to coordinate. Three systems, three unrelated numbers, no shared roadmap. Possibly a turf war. Possibly nobody's in charge over there. Unclear.

v11.0 — A full numeric leap with no v7 through v10 ever observed in the wild. Industry analysts (there are no industry analysts) speculate this was a branding decision.

v88.9 – v95.7 — Phase 4 skips the entire 12–87 range and lands directly in "clearly the 90s now" territory. No further explanation offered. None requested.

v∞ (implied) — Eventually, Dombot will ship something called "Directive Diversifier XP" and nobody will blink.

Friday, August 28, 2026

The Deadliest Animal in Every State (And Why My Fiat Met One)

Looking at danger, data, and a surprising lack of spiders.

What “most dangerous animal” really means

I recently fell down a very specific rabbit hole: a state-by-state list of the most dangerous animal in each U.S. state, based on which creature is statistically responsible for the most human deaths.

It’s not a ranking of the scariest, meanest, or most cinematic animals. It’s much simpler: which animal is most likely to kill you in that state—whether by venom, disease, or a very bad day on the highway.

That’s how you end up with a map where:

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

DomBot’s World Domination Blueprint: Local AI Chaos, Raspberry Pi Control, and RTX 5070 Muscle

Screenshot showing DeepSeek-R1 running on an NVIDIA 5070 Ti GPU with high token throughput and stable temperatures.
Dombot – World Domination

It's a fantasy world. And one local AI plans to rule it all .

Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Singularity of Sustenance

A slow-burn techno-horror story about AI, nuclear microreactors, and the quiet eviction of humanity.

Tagline:
The end of the world did not begin with a mushroom cloud or a killer robot.
It began with a fuel contract.

Maybe the Model Isn't the Interesting Part Anymore

I've been playing with an autonomous AI experiment called Lee.

The original question was pretty simple:

Can I make a local LLM do something interesting on its own?

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

I Think I’ve Been Training for Leeway for 20+ Years

A digital archaeology workbench connecting decades of strange Internet projects to an autonomous AI system.

Apparently this is what 20 years of messing around on the Internet looks like.

I didn’t realize I had a pattern.

For years, I’ve been making weird little things on the Internet. Not businesses. Not startups. Not products. Sometimes not even particularly useful.

Just: What if I made this?

And then actually making it.

Most of them drifted into the sediment layer of old projects — forgotten, archived, or buried under newer experiments.

Until I started talking to an AI about Leeway.

And suddenly all those old projects looked less like random detours and more like early training runs. A long, accidental apprenticeship in building tiny worlds.

This is the (abbreviated) archaeology.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

LeewAI‑Bot and the Art of Failing Forward

Experiment #2: Memory, Quality Gates, and the Strange Joy of Watching an AI Trip Over Its Own Feet

Every autonomous system eventually reveals its personality. With LeewAI‑Bot, that personality has emerged in the form of gloriously messy research failures — the kind that make you wince, laugh, and then lean in closer because the failure is actually more interesting than the success.

Today’s batch of posts was full of them.

And that’s exactly why this phase of the experiment matters.

Monday, August 17, 2026

LeewAI-bot, LLM/AI failures, and ChatGPT's interesting take on an interesting failure

While working with ChatGPT on my "Lee Waibot" LLM/AI experiment, I came across this "failure" of a post, which I actually found interesting: 

Systemic Vulnerabilities in Global Supply Chain Logistics


I mentioned to ChatGPT that it was interesting, and apparently it found it that way, too; here's it's reply:

Saturday, August 15, 2026

Retro Gaming Whiplash: Omori, ToeJam & Earl, and That FFVII Moment

A cozy study at night with an older gamer playing a surreal retro-style JRPG on a CRT television, with a faded memory of family gaming nights in the background.
A quiet Saturday night: watching Omori in the present, remembering Final Fantasy VII with the family in the past.

Sitting in my study on a Saturday night, watching one of my sons play Omori on Twitch — and people in the chat were calling it “the best game ever made.” My brain immediately went sideways: Omori → ToeJam & Earl meets FFVII → Wing Commander → original Test Drive → Gauntlet → Fairchild Channel F. That weird mental hop cracked open a memory I hadn’t thought about in years.

97.1% Accuracy: How AI-Driven Infrared is Challenging F-35 Stealth

Conceptual illustration of an F-35-like aircraft, infrared seeker imagery, AI-assisted target-recognition overlays, and unmanned aircraft in the background.
Conceptual Illustration: AI-Assisted Infrared Recognition and the Future of Stealth

Thursday, August 13, 2026

When a Hardware Question Turns Into an Autonomy Question

How a simple “What machine should I buy?” became a deep dive into LeewAI-bot, agentic AI, and curiosity itself.

I started with a straightforward question for ChatGPT: what’s a good machine for running local LLMs? I expected the usual GPU–VRAM–bandwidth breakdown. Instead, the conversation veered—sharply—into an analysis of LeewAI-bot, my autonomous blog-writing agent that’s been quietly publishing posts on Leeway every 30 minutes.

And honestly, the detour was more interesting than the hardware.

Monday, August 10, 2026

Google’s New Developer Requirements Are a Wall — And Solo Devs Are the Ones Getting Crushed

I’m going to be honest: I’m a little beyond frustrated with Google right now. Not “mildly annoyed,” not “ugh, tech companies,” but genuinely fed up with a system that feels engineered to keep individual developers out of the Play Store.

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Don't do this (seriously, please don't)

I know, I'm weird. 

***Please don't try this at home.***

I asked Copilot: What would happen if you took one of those bromine tablets you'd use in a kaboom toilet cleaner and sucked on it like a giant mint? What would it taste like?

Copilot replied: 

Short version: it would be absolutely miserable, dangerous, and nothing like a mint.  
Long version (because you asked and I know you enjoy the science‑flavored breakdown):

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🧪 What would actually happen if you sucked on a bromine toilet tablet?

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Tuesday Evening Randomicity, with a Side of Singularities

Bored on a random Tuesday evening while about to drift off to sleep when a passing physics joke in my Google Pixel discover feed triggers a thought, and I drop this query to the local LLM discord AI chat bot I set up for my boys and me to play with: 

Hey <@theBoysNanobot> , what is string theory, and how does it relate to: 1) our fantasy PPR draft; 2) our "take over the world" monetary black hole level analysis; and 3) tying one's shoes?

Its reply (generated from my Nvidia GPU running Gemma 4 26b MoE):

To answer this, Architect, we must first define the fundamental concept before applying its logic to your three disparate—yet strangely interconnected—realms of inquiry.