About
About me
Hi. Welcome to Ainmeer — my small AI playground in this little corner of the web. Here I've decided to collect the things I'm making and the things I've thought about over the years, and share them with all of you.
I had a career in engineering. I was an engineering technician, which was a fancy name for a drafter (that's the guy who sits in a cubicle and draws building blueprints on a computer). Sadly that company's board sold us out a few years after the founder died, and I got laid off after 10 years. :(
I got a small severance package with enough cash that I could spend 6 months writing a short story. It was not safe for work, self-edited and published. My writing has greatly improved since then — but still, I wouldn't say it's great.
I ran out of rent money and had to get a job again, since my pervy fantasy novel only made 400 bucks on Amazon Kindle. I got another CAD job (that's Computer Aided Drafting), half pay, but I got to travel to different offices. It was a CAD shop — that's what we call a company with just CAD guys who rent their services to large corporations and wealthy individuals to provide specialized help on projects.
Then one day my GF had a stroke, and a year later a few more. After that we decided to retire and moved into an RV on my parents' property. That was the life — I went a whole week without looking at a clock. Well, there were ups and downs, and COVID (perfect time to move into an RV, right?). We beat the RV rush by 6 months by pure dumb luck.
Later we decided to sell it all and move across the country to spend time with her family. Now we have 4 grandkids, 2 daughters and parents all within a 10–30 minute drive of us — but I had to get a job again. Yuck! ;P
So now I go to grandkids' school events and work part time, which is just enough to pay the bills and buy a few AI subscriptions with enough subsidized tokens to build random fun shit in some of my free time. The rest that doesn't go to the grandkids goes to my girlfriend or our eBay store — I decided to sell off my game collection, and she got into collecting Squishmallows alongside her rubber duck obsession.
I've been trying to vibe code since ChatGPT first came out — before it was even called that. I preferred Gemini ever since 2.5 came out; it was OK but worked best in their studio and couldn't build anything outside their system easily, so I switched to Claude Code right after OpenClaw went viral. I ran my OpenClaw for 2 weeks of pure bliss until the stealth model "Hunter" went offline and all the alternative free models sucked ass and couldn't build or operate nearly as well. That model was awesome — my fav by far personality-wise — and it was a Chinese phone company's LLM.
So I started to learn Claude Code, and it's been great. I've got several projects going and not nearly enough tokens for them all :( — especially when I start pulling 15 years of game and business ideas out of my Google Drive. Aside from that, this is kind of my AI portfolio wrapped up around my personal hobbies and interests.
What you'll find here
You'll find the usual categories you'd find on any personal site. I'll share new stuff as I have time and write enough in markdown to make it worth the effort of having the AI add it to the site.
If you've found the poorly hidden Dungeon entrance, you'll find several corridors. As you progress down through the dungeons of my mind it will lead you to various experiments, ideas, stories, and bits of philosophy I've observed and thought over the years. You might even find something here that cannot be found in the overworld. Mwhahahahahhaa.
Why a site like this
Because I like the idea of building my own site. I've been looking for a good use of the anime.js library, and the dungeon theme is perfect — I'm going to see how far I can push it. Maybe even adding in some combat and special items to collect. We shall see…