Homestead
Welcome to my Lab / devblog
[~/homestead/]
name: John Brantly (Homestead)
role: Software Development Consultant
exp: 40 years building bridges between things that don't talk
spec: Hardware, software, the stubborn stuff in between
[~/homestead/]
Devblog homesteadhacker.com Consulting johnbrantly.com MediaBeast mediabeast.io
  • Skeleton Forge: What Happens When You Build Game Modding Tools for AI Instead of Humans
    2026-01-05
    Skeleton Forge: What Happens When You Build Game Modding Tools for AI Instead of Humans

    I’ve been playing Kenshi for years. One guy built this game over 12 years while working night shifts as a security guard—and somehow created a massive …

    kenshi ai-workflow claude-code game-modding skeleton-forge development
  • Added TV Shows to Template and Movies Anywhere to Importer
    2026-01-03
    Added TV Shows to Template and Movies Anywhere to Importer

    MediaBeast Templates: Added TV Show Support Added TV show support to the MediaBeast template. Separate template.conf with type=tv_show, different JMTE iterator …

    mediabeast development
  • MediaBeast Publisher: The Push to GitHub
    2025-12-19
    MediaBeast Publisher: The Push to GitHub

    MediaBeast Publisher hit GitHub today. It’s a desktop app that publishes your Tiny Media Manager movie collection to Netlify—OAuth authentication, smart …

    mediabeast development
  • Why I'm Building MediaBeast (And Why I Stopped Trying to Replace Bluray.com)
    2025-12-17
    Why I'm Building MediaBeast (And Why I Stopped Trying to Replace Bluray.com)

    I’m a computer nerd with a movie collection that I obsess over. Like Vinyl, Movie collections are both functional and aesthetic. They are personal. Only …

    mediabeast physical-media tiny-media-manager collection-management letterboxd
  • I Built a Bridge: Three Days, Three Tools, and Why I Threw Away Perfectly Good Code
    2025-12-16
    I Built a Bridge: Three Days, Three Tools, and Why I Threw Away Perfectly Good Code

    I’m John Brantly (Homestead). I’ve been building software for 40 years. Twelve of those at IBM doing middleware and systems integration. Another …

    mediabeast development consulting tiny-media-manager physical-media
tags
  • ai-workflow(1)
  • claude-code(1)
  • collection-management(1)
  • consulting(1)
  • development(4)
  • game-modding(1)
  • kenshi(1)
  • letterboxd(1)
  • mediabeast(4)
  • physical-media(2)
  • skeleton-forge(1)
  • tiny-media-manager(2)
archive
  • 2025 (3)
  • 2026 (2)
rss