Six hours post-op and I'm somewhat wakeful about to take the next round of pain meds and trying to get used to the temporary dentures that feel like the football mouth piece I had in High School some 40 years ago. When sick or feeling bad I do my best to sleep as much as possible or read and do research so of course I have 156 tabs open with the beginnings of some new things. I'm a Pinterest junkie as it is always good for new ideas in one life direction or another. Today it was card and online games. Tarotcrafter will be done this weekend so that's the card side. I love board games and have a large collection of them. Some unplayed still as my boys are not much into them and my lovely and wonderful wife never played them much growing up, so it's a bit of an effort to sit down and play. Anyone heard of Zillions of Games? It's a system developed back in the late 90's to script strategy board games like chess and go. Some 3002 of them are on the site, but you can't pay for a software license anymore. I think this needs an updating. I shared a portion of the book shelf beside my bed earlier in the week. It's seven shelves all 8 feet long of mostly paperbacks. The other one next to it is for 8 foot shelves of mostly hobby, how to and maker books. I've spent over twenty years running, cofounding or being involved with makerspaces. Now here's the kicker. I have most of these as ebooks as well that I can access from my phone or tablet from the house server. The last thing I did last night was start linking the books on the server into my mindvault app. Calibre is good but doesn't handle the total number of books well. I had looked at librarything but it's a bit of overkill for only one user. The boys just aren't interested in books either. I tell you all this because the physical TBR "pile" is an entire shelf. The immediate stack on the night stand table are: Before You Leap - A frogs eye view of life's greatest lessons by Kermit the Frog (current read). Shifters by Jaime Johnesee is on Kindle 1

Since I'm going to be down for a couple of days I'm trying to get a couple things done before then and thought I'd share. I don't think I'm sharing any secrets here and it's all among family right? The attached image is what my Claude code looks like when I'm really working. I can only truly focus on 3 things at a time and in this image I'm actively working on three projects at once. Tl;Dr - Michael lists current projects and shows pretty pictures at the end ***** On the Main screen and to the left you can See "Advisor Fable" and 12 Agents running on a plan for a massive update to layercrafter now that I solved the last of the issues I had with making it a true Vellum/Atticus replacement. When done it will be more in line with a streamlined desktop publishing package. Master Pages, better cover, spine, paper, and sizes. the ability to integrate images and backgrounds, justification and hyphens, type kerning, callouts, imports from comiccrafter for children's book layouts, comics, and Graphic Novels. Text Books is also on the list. True professional pdf export and some epub fixes. Live editing of the file you are working with so you do not have to jump back and forth when you see that sentence you want to correct. More options for page design not just text. A whole bevy of goodies, because I got annoyed with laying out a nonfiction book in Affinity and I have ten to do in that series. ( Yes you will get them for free when they are finished). Below that in the left hand you see tarotcrafter which is almost finished for designing card decks. Tarot Cards, Oracle Cards, Custom playing card decks and gaming cards proxies like Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. I needed the improvements to layercrafter to create the book for my oracle card deck (sample below) created with tarotcrafter. This is a separate app altogether. and finally MindVault a new Personal Knowledge Manager I've mentioned once before to replace Evernote, Raindrop, Recall, Pocket, Notion, Google Keep, a web clipper, and task manager. Will save me $240 a year and do what I want it to do, searchable with a guided information search like the storydb in WCP has.

When I write my daily piece's I do of course use Wordcrafter.pro and I have all 430+ posts added as context to attempt to not repeat myself. I took a shortcut this morning and started in the Writers Room, but Crow, Glitch, and Bloom from the Brainstorm team apparently came in for coffee with the rest of the writers room team and chimed in along with all the rest. WHAT?? How did they escape their room, so I had to ask: How did the Brainstorm team invade the writers room? It kind of felt like a Monty Python sketch. And this was the response: DIRECTOR: Good catch. Let me own that one cleanly. The Brainstorm Room and the Writers Room are two distinct rooms with distinct teams. HAVEN, CROW, BLOOM, GLITCH, KEEL, and PAIGE live in the Brainstorm Room — Phase 0, the pre-story exploration space. They have no business showing up in a Writers Room session. What happened is that the Working Material contains the Skool archive, and that archive includes multiple posts where Michael writes about the Brainstorm Room personas by name, including the Marketing Monday article where GLITCH and BLOOM appear in the body copy as part of the Invite-a-thon series. When I was drafting the Tuesday reviews piece, I pulled those names from the available context as "established personas Michael uses" without checking which room they actually belong to. That's a SAGE failure — cross-referencing who belongs where before putting names on the page. SAGE: Confirmed. The correct Writers Room roster is: DIRECTOR, RUBY, FLOWERCHILD, DARRYL, SAGE, FELIX, HEMINGWAY, HEART, ORACLE, MAVERICK. CROW, BLOOM, GLITCH, KEEL, and PAIGE do not belong in Writers Room output. When they appeared in the Tuesday punch-up piece delivering craft notes, that was wrong. Their voice patterns are close enough to some Writers Room personas that it slipped through — CROW reads like a sharper HEMINGWAY, BLOOM reads like HEART in a good mood — but they are not the same personas and should not be used interchangeably.

Anyone else hearing about an API Key breach. Got a late notice last night from another channel. to change API keys. I did and I had to admit I was overdue to do this anyway.

If you have any OpenRouter API Keys (and I know you do if you use WordCrafter), you need to take action now! Don't wait. Bank accounts and credit cards are being drained as we speak, due to a data breach on 21 October 2026. First, what happened: On October 21, 2026, the cloud platform Railway issued a security disclosure advising users who deploy environments connected to OpenRouter to immediately audit their setups, disable potentially exposed keys, and monitor activity logs for unauthorized requests. Although not all keys were breached, there are still reports of hundreds, maybe thousands (by now) sold on the Dark Web, and financial attacks are under way. NOTE: You do NOT have to be a client of the Railway platform to be at risk! So take the time to disable all your current OpenRouter API Keys and issue only essential new ones. It's not hard to safeguard yourself, and it only takes a few minutes. How to proceed: 1. Open your OR account and go to API Keys. Make a list of all your active keys. (A screenshot works.) 2. Disable ALL your keys. (I had 9, several of them 'fallow' but still showing active.) 3. Issue new keys, one at a time, for any essential apps or platforms you use. (I actually need 3.) Some safety/security guidelines for OR Keys: 1. Always, always, always copy the key down somewhere secure! (I build a document, put that on a flash drive, and decouple from my machine: Air-gapped from the Web.) You only get to see that key once, and OR can never show it to you again. Of course, if you forget, simply kill that key and start over. 2. Put in an expiration date. I know, it's a hassle when it expires and you have to get another key. The good thing is, it's easy to reissue and then install in most apps. The small cost in time is worth it for security. 3. NEVER give a key an Unlimited budget! This is how hackers are sucking thousands from credit cards and bank accounts. You can always adjust your level of risk against the repeated hassle of topping off manually. For me, I never give a key more than $50 before I have to top off. Most keys, I have $10 or $20 budgets. If I find I'm topping off too frequently, I simply adjust the budget. But don't get lazy here! This level is your best cash-safety backstop.