The Back Button That Wasn't There
Sometime last year I noticed something I’d been doing multiple times a day without thinking about it. I’d be deep in a conversation with an AI chat, it would link me somewhere,...
thoughts by victor
blog post detailing my projects, travels and opinions
Things I build & run
- Story to Manga Machine Paste a story, watch it become manga. Built in 48 hours across nine time zones. with Kingston Kuan
- Tambourine Voice Open-source dictation that actually gets your words right. contributor
- Pokemon TCG Event Day Rules, timers, and tools for the prerelease events I run.
- TCG Idle Game An ASCII idle game — from casual collector to card shop owner.
Writing
Why I've been dictating everything lately
I’ve been dictating a lot recently: emails, Slack messages, notes, even commit messages. The tool behind this is Tambourine Voice, an open source dictation app my friend Kingston Kuan started. I’ve contributed...
Building a Manga Machine in 48 Hours
Kingston and I are manga fans, and we’d been following AI image generation pretty closely. At the start of this year you could already generate manga panels with AI, but character consistency...
Pokemon Prerelease Event built with LLMs
I recently hosted a Pokemon TCG prerelease event for my friends, most of whom were new to the card game. In typical developer fashion, I over-engineered the solution by building a small...
Singapore Food Recommendations
As one of the only Singaporeans in various social situations, I get asked about what to eat in Singapore. It started when a friend asked for a list and I decided instead...
ARC: my new daily browser
Improving Reddit communities through engagement
Reddit can be a toxic place, sadly. According to this New Scientist article More than one in eight Reddit users publish toxic posts. An analysis of 1.2 million Reddit users found that...
using Craiyon & OpenAI in creating fusion restaurants
What if we can take a Korean and Japanese restaurant, we can merge and form a new virtual Asian Fusion restaurant? In a prototype, I explored the idea taking brand concepts from...
ReportChat - Better feedback for users
Autolab Metrics - helping instructors identify at risk students for early intervention
Traditional approaches of identifying students who are struggling with class is reactive; course staff wait for students to come to them to provide help, which can often be too late. A proactive...