hijinks inc. – hijinks inc.

Weather Poster

Aaron Nelsen — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:34:19 +0000

Turns out the last time my Weather Poster from Typified was connected to a wireless network was 2019 and it’s just been collecting dust ever since. This project would be niche even if the poster was a more recent product and I fully recognize most people have long gotten rid of their posters like responsible adults, but for those technology hoarders like me here’s a path to redemption!

If you have the password handy for connecting to your Typified Weather Poster, you can skip straight over to the GitHub repo and you’ll be up and running in ten minutes or less.

However, if you only hoard technology and not the paper/stickers that may have come with it and lost your password like I did you’ll need to connect over USB to recover the password.

On my poster any time it would boot, I could capture the process over USB (plugged into my mac) using screen, but after booting I was unable to enter any commands. Being reckless and just smashing buttons, I realized that during the initial boot process I could press enter and access the shell and enter basic commands (for the 10-15 seconds it took to fully boot), so with my poster connected via the Omega2+ via mini-dock and using screen I was able to run cat /etc/config/wireless to see what the password for the WeatherPoster SSID was (which will also be your password for SSH and the web interface).

Step 1: Connect and power on the poster via USB
Step 2: Run ls /dev/tty.* to locate the device address, if you see multiple and are unsure, unplug the poster, run it again and see which address disappeared from the list.
Step 3: Use the device address you got from Step 2 to run screen, mine looked like
screen /dev/tty.usbserial-0001 115200
Step 4: Press Enter you should see root@weatherposter# show up briefly as the boot process continues to scroll
Step 5: Run cat /etc/config/wireless to print all the WiFi config info on the device, make note of the password listed under WeatherPoster.
Step 6: Profit. Just kidding. Move on to my repo for the next wave.

Default username on all posters is root, I’m unsure if they share a default password, the original password to mine was weather6124 so you could definitely try that first.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/hijinksinc/wthr-pstr

Side note: I realized after dumping all the files from my poster and inspecting them that the original WeatherPoster repo still exists, so I downloaded a clean (7 year old) copy of that repo to base my code changes off of.

App Update – Complete & Conquer 1.1

Aaron Nelsen — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:26:00 +0000

Complete & Conquer 1.1 is here and so is Commander Pro

When 1.0 shipped, I promised the to-do core would stay free forever. Still true: recurring objectives, unlimited tasks, the full base game are all free, no caps, no tricks.

New and free for everyone:

Recurring objectives (daily, weekdays, weekly, or monthly)
Home Screen + Lock Screen widgets
Raid fixes – no more taking damage after you’ve cleared your queue
Reliability and performance work across the board

Introducing Commander Pro, for commanders who want the deluxe war room:

iCloud sync! Your base and progress on both iPhone and Mac
Tier 3 advanced tech, the Orca, an elite-tier base
GSD Intel: a field-intelligence briefing with completion analytics, streaks, and a raid log
Dynamic Island quick-deploy – page through and secure objectives right from the island
Raid tuning: Relaxed, Standard, or Intense, plus quiet hours

App Launch: Vibe Coder Tycoon

Aaron Nelsen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:37:21 +0000

It’s game time. Or productivity app time. You decide! Vibe Coder Tycoon is officially out now for iOS and macOS. Try your hand at releasing your own vibecoded monstrosity without the burden of paying for Codex or Claude Code.

Building in Pubic: Sound Design

Aaron Nelsen — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:21:22 +0000

In the past I’ve always just used Pixabay or Freesounds to find sounds for my projects, but recently I’ve started trying to think more intentionally about sound design and actually “make” my own. By no means does this mean I’ve figured anything out or am suddenly an office chair expert, it just means I’m realizing the benefit of more cohesion and the time savings from having to hunt for sounds that compliment each other.

For Vibe Coder Tycoon, I started out with some core guidelines based entirely off my own preferences and the knowledge gleaned from a YouTube video and a couple blog posts. Very scientific stuff.

Guidelines

No sounds above C5 (523 Hz) except the win sound
No music track – ambient room tone instead (60hz)
Softer sounds for things that happen often
Sound dB should be reflective of the vibe. App promotion falls flat -16 dB @ 148 Hz vs app goes viral -5 dB @ 392 Hz.

All sounds for Vibe Coder Tycoon were generated using a Python script (I reverse 37% of my previous hurtful things I’ve said about Python), here’s an example of the code for the broke even sound (obviously not including the mixer, envelope, etc. part of the script, just the individual sound definition):

def s_broke_even(rng): """~600ms quiet.""" a = triangle(note("D4"), 0.22) * perc(0.22, decay=0.16) b = triangle(note("A4"), 0.38) * perc(0.38, decay=0.3) return db(seq(a, b), -14.0)

It remains to be seen if my brain and my Python skills will allow me to generate more complex sounds for future projects, but I’ll certainly try!

If nothing else, my wife says the room tone is perfect for white noise and she’ll use the app when traveling.

Update – Vibe Coder Tycoon

Aaron Nelsen — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:53:00 +0000

Vibe Coder Tycoon: my playable hot take on every other Reddit post these days is officially sitting in Apple’s review queue.

The pitch: If it wasn’t obvious, you’re a vibe coder. Meet Maude, an AI who has seen your app idea before, several thousand times, and remains unconvinced the world needs another SaaS. You build it anyway! Budgeting your startup cash (read: money borrowed against your Robinhood margin) and your tokens against a 5-hour window, a weekly cap, and rent that’s due on the 28th.

As Maude puts it: “The build ships overnight. I don’t sleep. App Store review, historically, does.”

So while we both wait for Apple to wake up: the website is live, and I’d start saving your tokens now. Maude bills by the burst.

App Launch – Complete & Conquer

Aaron Nelsen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:45:49 +0000

I suffer from hot-swapping between drinking too many coffees and starting 100s of projects and getting absolutely nothing done, so I built a productivity app to gamify my to-do list and keep myself on track. Native for macOS and iOS, Complete & Conquer allows you to earn credits for completing tasks, spend those credits to build yourself a pixel-art style military base, but if you slack off your base will come under attack by enemy forces and the only way to fend them off is to complete a task.

Vibe Coder Tycoon

Aaron Nelsen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:20:00 +0000

Last week I started building a little game I’m calling Vibe Coder Tycoon. With all the AI slop hitting the app store with reckless abandon these days I figured why not make a game out of it, build your workstation, manage your tokens, spend your advertising budget and hope for a hit!

I’m going for pixel art style because that happens to fit my graphical abilities, haha.

Building for iOS and macOS, maybe a Steam port down the road. I’ll post an update when I get more of the framework and game mechanics figured out.

BnBdle

Aaron Nelsen — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:24:22 +0000

I’m sure you woke up this morning and thought to yourself, “You know what the world needs? Another Wordle knockoff!” And on the off chance you did think something like that, you’re in luck!

I recently started renting out my home in New York on Airbnb when I’m not in town, and while that has turned out to be an absolute nightmare, I still made BnBdle. Now we can journey down the insane Airbnb rabbit hole together.

App Launch – Regime

Aaron Nelsen — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:58:21 +0000

In case you read my post on my account migration and wondered what the hell I’ve been up to building, the answer is a bunch of random things, however the one I’m most proud of is out now for iOS!

Regime is a text based adventure game set in the not so distant future and pits you against your own hunger for power and an increasing complex set of political crises. Would love any feedback anyone has on it!

Apple Dev Account Migration

Aaron Nelsen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:07:48 +0000

TLDR: Apple took 30 days to migrate my account from an individual to a organization and offered very little in the way of communication during the process.

Early last month, after years of my Apple Developer Account just collecting dust I decided in a moment of hubris or perhaps just boredom that now would be a good time to jump back in, so I downloaded Xcode, renewed my Apple Developer Subscription and got after it.

Fast forward to 23 days ago when I decided that if I was going to actually release any apps, I’d like to do so under my company (Anthology Group.) Full disclosure, at the beginning of this all I knew I wanted to release under my company’s identity, I even tried signing up for a new Developer Account but was unable to complete registration and was forced to resurrect my old developer account.

Despite the warnings on Apple own’s site about what would be unavailable during the migration process from an Individual to Organization account, I boldly (read: ignorantly) blazed ahead. Remember that number of days, 23? That’s how long (and counting) the migration process has left me in limbo.

Naturally after the first few days of absolute silence from Apple I started Googling and seeing that people complained about it taking weeks if not months for their migration to complete.

So here I sit, venting to the internet just to make myself feel better. For those who may stumble across this in their own search for answers about the process, here’s my current timeline.

May 10th - Submitted original request. Radio silence.

May 13th - Emailed support. They sent me an email with next steps.

May 15th - Emailed again. Was told "under review by our senior team".

May 21st - Emailed yet again with a faint sense of hope as a new enrollment ID had appeared on my account.

May 23rd - Received a reply to my May 21st email stating "our senior support team will contact you soon". (spoiler: they did not)

May 28th - Called support. Someone on the internet said that helped them. Was told "senior team is on it, no timeline though".

May 30th - I lost the ability to sign apps for testing on local devices. Could this be the light at the end of the tunnel? It was not.

June 2nd - Emailed support again. No reply yet.

June 3rd - Still no movement.

June 4th - You guessed it. No update.

June 8th - Happy WWDC! Still nothing from Apple, not even a dismissive reply.

June 9th - Emailed Apple again. Was somewhat unkind. About an hour later my account migration was complete.