MY TECHNOLOGY AND PROGRAMMING JOURNEY
This was a quiet but satisfying project. Not flashy, no bots or AI this time — just practical infrastructure at home.
It started as a casual observation from friends: the best rental deals disappear fast. You message a landlord minutes after the listing goes up—or you don’t get a reply at all. That tiny time window was frustrating, but it also sounded like a great problem for automation.
For years, I’ve loved playing Heroes of Might and Magic III. It’s one of those games where the strategy, randomness, and battle animations still hold up decades later. But I recently found myself wondering: what would it look like if a machine tried to make the decisions instead?
I learned a lot about automation with Python and how the game works, but I didn't want to end it yet. I lost access to all my previous characters, so I had to start from the beginning. But it wasn't a complete beginning.
After finishing my fishing bot, I wanted to automate something more complicated.
When I was a kid, I used to play a MMORPG called Metin2. Like many RPGs, progression relied heavily on grinding repetitive tasks. I’d heard of hacks for the game, but my limited knowledge back then made me cautious — I didn’t want to risk viruses or getting my account stolen.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been deep in the weeds of fine-tuning my own custom LLM. One idea that kept coming up: why not train it directly on real-world tech‐forum discussions? Instead of manually copying and pasting entire threads, I decided to build a scraper that could pull down each conversation automatically—archiving raw HTML or text so I could feed it into my fine‐tuning pipeline.
During my Metin2 bot project, I started thinking about scaling. I had two older PCs besides my laptop and decided to install Windows 10 on them to run multiple game instances. One of them was tricky to upgrade from Windows 7, especially since it was my first time installing an OS—but I managed.
Then I moved on to building my first custom PC—something I’d always wanted to do. I figured that building it myself would be cheaper and definitely more customizable. For example, I wanted a lot of RAM, but not much storage. In prebuilt PCs, 32GB of RAM is often seen as "professional-tier" and bundled with large SSDs I didn’t need.
When my friend bought a 3D printer, I helped with the setup. Since then, I occasionally used it, but only for simple prints—it was one of the early models. Over time, 3D printing technology advanced significantly: printers became more reliable, higher quality, and more affordable.