#Automation

Five releases landed while I was writing the last two posts. The one that matters: PixelLab can now edit an existing asset directly, no ComfyUI instance required. Two new generators and a gallery shortcut came along with it.

The Pixelkiln project page said one provider, no characters. Forty-eight releases later, in about three weeks, both claims are wrong, and here’s what actually shipped.

Pixelkiln ships a second set of instructions now, not for you, for whatever’s driving the CLI on your behalf. Here’s what it won’t let an agent do, and where else it lives.

A single 65-badge icon set turned into 350 disconnected objects with no record of what shipped from where. Here’s the lockfile we built to fix that, and the three bugs we found the day we actually put it to the test.

Wrapping QLC+ on a Raspberry Pi with the things that make a headless DMX rig pleasant to use: one-command provisioning, a friendly landing page, fixture groups, AI scene generation, and the boring reliability glue (udev rules, WiFi watchdog, doctor command) that turns lights-are-dead calls into a non-event.

The Pironman5 MAX has a tiny OLED on the front, and the stock software just loops a few system stats on a timer. I replaced it with a single orchestrator page running 15 info screens, 14 animated screensavers, and a health-aware alert mode. Here is how it works.

I rebuilt coco’s interface with a TUI design skill, then needed to show it off. Screenshots and demo GIFs turned out to be their own craft, full of subtle traps. So I built a skill for that too.

A weekend alone. Four projects. 222 commits in a single day. An honest look at what agentic coding is doing to my attention, what wisdom still costs, and how I am trying to stay balanced at light speed.

I got one of those “your key is expiring” emails from Humble Bundle, opened my library, and realized I had no idea how many unclaimed games were sitting there. So I wrote a tool. What followed was a crash course in everything Playwright throws at you when you’re automating a real, bot-averse, React-rendered storefront.

localpress is a CLI tool that processes your WordPress media library locally – compression, WebP/AVIF conversion, AI background removal, and round-trip desktop editing – with no cloud SaaS, no recurring credits, and no plugin required on the WordPress side.

Doorman 2.0 ships Cloudflare WAF support alongside Vercel Firewall, a new .doorman.json config format, and 1,100+ tests backing a production-ready multi-provider firewall CLI.

A small filesystem tweak that turned my open source projects into a single workspace my agents can actually reason about. Nested git repos, a centralized orchestrator, and a documentation loop that finally stays in sync.

Effortlessly clean up your WordPress XML export by removing comment bloat using a simple SED command on OSX

PixelLab’s Object Creator sat on the project’s own roadmap since the character generator shipped. Two releases now cover it: a new objectPro generator for skeleton-free props and creatures, and gallery buttons that add a new pose or animation without touching the manifest by hand.