New Webserver, Who Dis?

December 22, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

A couple months ago I bought one of those little fist-sized computers to replace my big Dell computer as my web server.  I stuck it inside my 3d printed retro computer case that I used as a prop for my roleplaying games, but the plan was always to switch everything over one day.

This morning is that day, jumping through all the technical hoops to copy things over, get it all configured, re-enable SSL, and all the other annoying steps.  I even had copilot rewrite my ancient Classic ASP pages with all their security flaws into a more modern language.  It took a lot of handholding, but eventually I got it all up and running again.

It should theoretically be faster, with a solid state drive and faster CPU.  I still have a few more steps remaining, but I wanted to actually get this on the Internet and post a story to prove to myself that it shows up.

Traveller

December 19, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

There was a deal on the classic Traveller roleplaying game books.  I have most of the physical copies from my childhood - originals from the 70s and 80s.  It's really the one RPG I played regularly as a kid, and I loved making worlds and ships and adventures.  Sometimes I think not much has changed.

I continue to play with all the AI generation tools and have recently been vibe coding out a system that should help me referee one of the big adventure modules.  The players fly a merchant ship around, moving cargo and going from system to system having adventures.  There's a bit of tedium and players often need to break out a spreadsheet to deal with cargo and maintenance and salaries.  Fortunately computers are very good at this sort of thing, and I've been coding up something to help with that part.

I was also tinkering with some of the picture to 3d model AI tools.  It's not perfect, but better than my modeling skills.  I did some additional manual tinkering and am pretty happy with the end results.

We'll see if this turns into something more real, but I'm having a great time putting it all together.

Delta Green Coasters

October 15, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

I have this weird need to make odd little things for my players.  This time it was the Delta Green crowd - I ended up making a bunch of coasters for them to use, take home, or do whatever.  I like the idea of souvenirs to remember our games, but I also like practical things.  This seemed like a good compromise.

Retro PC

August 03, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

Weeks ago I started 3d printing the pieces to a new retro computer.  It was one of the bigger prints I've done, requiring multiple pieces glued, sanded, primed, and painted.  It seemingly took forever to get the case ready.  Then there were the components - an old Raspberry Pi, a touch screen I got for my birthday, and some assorted plugs and switches to make it all come together.  The last part was flashing a memory card and putting on Linux, then turning the thing on.

Though there are some seams and the plastic warped a little in the heat when drying paint, but it all turned out in the end.  I flipped the switch and in a few seconds it booted into Linux and I opened up Firefox to display a web page I'd made for one of my Delta Green campaigns.   My plan is to occasionally break it out as a prop.  Plus it works fine as a little desktop computer in a pinch.

Mothership Warden Assistant

June 23, 2025 by Adam in Adam's Projects

When I do rpgs, even one-shots, I try hard to put together a special experience for my players.  I got the Mothership rpg for Father's Day, which is kinda like Aliens in terms of space horror games.  I had this vision of making a display for players that had their headshots with an EKG-like pulse that showed their current health and stress levels.  The idea is that I'd have my display hidden in secret and I can click on pictures and update player stats to have it appear on the player screen.

After a week of vibe coding with copilot, generating images, and tweaking endless parameters, I'm mostly happy with the end results.  I've got it uploaded to Github publicly, but haven't really spread the word yet.

https://adamgmiller.github.io/mothership-warden-assistant/