The cynical answer is that there is no roadmap, because roadmaps are for communicating to other people what the software will have that is for them. Starbase Zebra is for me. Deal with it.
The actual answer is thus:
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What I was doing: Goofing off with LLMs - I actually got this demo really close to working, aside from presentation layer stuff. The only problem is that all of the LLM stuff was running on my own PC, and I’m not really prepared or interested to have my PC up 100% of the time to support a Star Trek trivia chatbot, nor do I want to take on the expense of paying for some SaaS service to host the LLM for me. If the economics of LLMs become even cheaper than they are now (I think this is very unlikely), then maybe I’ll release it publicly. But I think until then, this is just going to live on my machine and not be on Starbase Zebra.
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Updates to the site presentation - Bulma had its 1.0 release. This is vaguely enough for me to actually consider re-doing all the CSS here, if only for the magic of dark mode. Or, just to have something to do. We do what we must, because we can.
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Captain’s Log - I have been recently playing the Star Trek Adventures Captain’s Log Solo-RPG. This has been a fantastic experience for me, as I was compelled to revisit the Star Trek universe, and was attempting to write about things there. The RPG is useful for acting as a catalyst, giving me just enough structure to hold on to in order to write around it. I see myself doing this for a while, so I imagine I will be adding a few things to Starbase Zebra to publish revised logs and also maybe host some utilities that I could use to manage characters and other things.
I don’t have any other side-project plans right now. Work has simultaneously gotten better but also worse. I am less stressed by workload, but more stressed by uncertainty. The regime change liberation is finally going to be felt in the new year, and that will tell me if my lottery ticket is ever going to worth anything. More importantly, it will tell me if I am capable of being patient enough to see those numbers come up. Right now I think I’m not. I’m not optimistic.