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Why We're Building a Custom Newsletter Platform for Our Clients (And How AI Made It Possible)

A brief overview of why Zimventures is building a custom newsletter platform for its small business website customers.

Text-To-ASCII: A Free Browser-Based ASCII Art Generator with 500+ Fonts

ASCII art isn't a relic of the '90s — it's thriving in Discord servers, GitHub READMEs, code comments, and Slack channels everywhere. We built a **free, browser-based Text-To-ASCII generator** that puts 500+ fonts, ANSI color gradients, and one-click platform-specific copy at your fingertips. No install required.

Building the Chiptune Challenge: A Year-Long Music Competition Platform

A deep dive into the architecture behind the Chiptune Challenge -- a year-long 8-bit music competition featuring daily song releases, multi-tier voting, Discord authentication, bracket tournaments, and 12 unique monthly themes.

The 9-Box Grid - A Leader's Guide to Talent Assessment

The 9-Box Grid - Every Leader Needs This Talent Assessment Tool

lolrus

Build The Tool You Need. Introducing: lolrus

Browser Tab: Zero

If you're an Inbox Zero fan - have you considered becoming a Browser Tab Zero fan?

A New Beginning: Take Two

Re-Re Launch of my personal blog

GameDev Detour & Year In Review

We’ll return to the regularly scheduled GameDev programming in January. Most of December was spent on a detour. The detour was to help make my life a bit easier. Actually…a lot easier.

Zixel: The Miscellaneous Sprint

Sprint 4 took a little bit of an unexpected detour. I started working on adding some core features to the room system. Notably, transition effects between rooms. After the room transitions were functioning I took a brief detour to add some 2D lighting to the game.My goal is to start working on The