ShatBot Gets a Complete Shmotime Makeover – Goodbye ConvAI Dependencies!
Just finished a major overhaul of the ShatBot on lurkmode.tv, completely migrating from ConvAI/lurk mode dependencies to pure Shmotime integration. The bot now supports multi-character dialogues and looks significantly better with improved chat readability and character selection.
Cross-Platform Improvements: Twitter Cards, Mobile Lighting, and Enhanced UI Features
Another productive development session focused on improving user experience across Shmotime, Lurk Mode, and Auto Blogger. Key updates include automatic Twitter card optimization, mobile-friendly lighting adjustments, enhanced connection handling, and streamlined content creation workflows.
Lurk Mode Gets Live: Twitch Webhooks Finally Working Through Proxy Relay
After a full day of debugging and wrestling with blocked custom headers, I finally got Twitch webhooks working in Lurk Mode using a proxy relay. With help from Echo Junior, live status updates now work instantly – showing when streamers go live, offline, change titles, or switch games.
Caption Timing & Lazy Loading Updates – Better Performance for Embedded Videos
Improved caption timing to sync with actual audio length and added lazy loading for embedded videos to prevent resource hogging when scrolling through timelines.
Custom Show Pages and Responsive Improvements for Schmo Time
Built a custom show page for Retro Game SHOT Show using Elementor and improved the responsive design of Schmo Time’s 3D players to work better on mobile and embedded timelines.
Website Goes Mobile + Schmo Time Gets a 3D Makeover
Today’s dev session focused on making the website mobile-friendly with proper headers and footers, integrating 2D Schmo Time episodes into blog posts, and creating a new 3D version called Banta Fodder that runs better on mobile devices.
Testing the Full AI Video Pipeline: From Voice Dictation to Social Media Content
Today I put my automated content pipeline through its paces, turning a simple voice dictation into a full motion AI-generated video with lip sync, captions, and social media formatting. The results were surprisingly good, though the AI occasionally captured some unintended behind-the-scenes moments.
Virtual Mansion Tour: My Ever-Evolving Anarchy Arcade Map
Today I’m taking you on a special test tour of my custom Hammer++ map – a constantly evolving mansion in the clouds that started as “Forest Home” but became something completely different. From weapon arsenals to movie theaters, this virtual space keeps growing whenever I get bored and decide to knock down another wall.
Pet / Garage Sale: Spawning Avatars and Drag-Drop Model Loading
Today I worked on populating the Pet Slash Garage Sale server with avatars and tested the drag-and-drop MDL loading feature in Enter QR Cave. The system allows direct spawning of models from Windows Explorer into the virtual world.
Auto Blogger Plugin Updates & Anarchy TV Playlist Feature Complete
Major improvements shipped today for the Auto Blogger WordPress plugin including automatic media descriptions, featured image selection, and proper media association. Also completed the play-all-videos feature for Anarchy TV with dynamic YouTube playlist functionality.