Brad Root

Brad Root

Software Engineer — Irvine, CA

Software engineer, artist, tech enthusiast, music aficionado, video game junkie, and occasional unicyclist.

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GitHub Activity

38
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1.2K
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48
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The Eye of Providence

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Blogs

ſtaires!

Since 2008, ſtaires! an adventure in listening is a music blog where I write about music I like. Nothing more, nothing less. Previously syndicated by The Hype Machine.

amiantos.net

Amiantos.net is my personal blog where I write about my ongoing projects, slap together tutorials, and throw up my opinions on all the latest happenings in technology.

i have been floated

Since 2004, i have been floated is my microblog where I write about myself, my thoughts, my interests, and anything else I care to spew out onto the internet lazily.

Work

Lingo

Lingo

Digital Asset Manager

Since 2018, I've been the backend engineer, devops guy, all-around problem solver, and occasional copywriter for Lingo, a digital asset manager used by Reddit, Duolingo, Snap, and other brands you know and love.

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Featured Projects

C64 Ultimate Toolbox

C64 Ultimate Toolbox

Commodore 64 Ultimate Companion

Native macOS app for streaming, viewing, and controlling your Commodore 64 Ultimate device with real-time CRT shader effects.

App Store GitHub

★ 24 stars on GitHub

Postalgic

Postalgic

Pocket Blogger

A pocket-sized, decentralized micro-blogging app for iOS. Write short posts, share photos, and own your content — deploy wherever you like.

App Store GitHub

★ 2 stars on GitHub

Inneal

Inneal

AI Character Tavern

A LLM-powered chatbot client specifically built for the AI Horde. Import or craft Tavern-compatible character cards, and chat with them for free, powered by open source LLMs, with compute provided by enthusiastic volunteers around the world.

App Store GitHub

★ 44 stars on GitHub

Aislingeach

Aislingeach

Generative Art Client

A generative art client specifically built for the AI Horde. Generate art, graphics, photographs, and more, all for free, powered by open source diffusion models, with compute provided by enthusiastic volunteers around the world.

App Store GitHub

★ 54 stars on GitHub

Ealain

Ealain

Infinite Art Display

A macOS screensaver, Apple TV and Vision Pro app that displays modern art created by artists who have never existed. All works are generated using open source image diffusion models, and new works are generated all the time.

App Store GitHub Demo

★ 71 stars on GitHub

Gamebook Engine

Gamebook Engine

Interactive Fiction Creator

A fully featured app for creating and playing gamebooks, a type of interactive fiction where the player gets to make decisions that influence the story.

App Store GitHub

★ 103 stars on GitHub

Life Saver

Life Saver

Conway's Game of Life Screensaver

A macOS screensaver and Apple TV app that displays an artistic implementation of Conway's Game of Life, using the cellular automaton to generate pleasing, abstract art that is always changing and evolving, kind of like a cyberpunk fireplace sim.

App Store GitHub Demo

★ 232 stars on GitHub

PiBar

PiBar

Pi-hole Menu Bar Manager

A macOS menu bar app for managing your Pi-hole(s). Compatible with macOS 10.12 (and later). Download for free via brew install pibar or buy on the Mac App Store.

App Store GitHub

★ 341 stars on GitHub

dotBeat

dotBeat

Swatch Internet Time

dotBeat gives you Swatch Internet Time right in your macOS menu bar! But, that's not all, it also has an interesting UX for viewing most timezones on earth, for when you're planning global meetings.

App Store GitHub

★ 40 stars on GitHub

Other Projects

multiclock

MultiClock is a screensaver for macOS that displays the time using 24 clocks

Swift ★ 145

aeongarden

Aeon Garden is an artificial life toy for Apple devices built with SpriteKit

Swift ★ 30

last-statement

A macOS screensaver that displays the names and last statements of people executed by the State of Texas

Swift ★ 25

AI-Horde-Styles-Previews

Automatically generated preview images for AI Horde styles

JavaScript ★ 9

multiclock-playdate

MultiClock is a splash of code for Playdate that displays the time using 24 clocks

Lua ★ 5

writers-guild

A SillyTavern alternative focused on short story writing with full support for Tavern cards and Lorebooks

JavaScript ★ 5

langtonsmap

Procedural 8-bit style map generated by Langton's ant, built with SpriteKit

Swift ★ 4

textlike

Textlike is a text-based roguelike built for the web

PHP ★ 4

dreamers-guild

Dreamers Guild is a self-hosted web app for using the AI Horde

JavaScript ★ 3

postalgic

A self-hosted static CMS

JavaScript ★ 3

impostor

Impostor is a AI-powered IRC autonomous chatbot

JavaScript ★ 2

ai-horde-irc

An IRC bot for the AI Horde — image generation in #channels with catbox-hosted results and a web dashboard.

JavaScript ★ 1

hoarder

Self-hosted file dropper. Drag, paste, or drop a file and get a short shareable URL backed by R2.

JavaScript ★ 1

snitch

IRC <-> Discord bridge for #amiantos (the EyeBridge bot). Split out of impostor.

JavaScript ★ 1

witness

A self-hosted webcam time-lapse studio — captures, classifies, and compiles per-day variable-speed timelapses + multi-day calendar mosaics

Shell ★ 1