The island of Vincent Bons: AI experiments, games, music and other wonders. Explore it, or read the blog.https://wingedsheep.com/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/building-argentum-a-magic-the-gathering-rules-engine/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/building-argentum-a-magic-the-gathering-rules-engine/Magic: The Gathering has over 28,000 unique cards. Each one can interact with every other in ways the designers never anticipated. The comprehensive rules document is over 200 pages long. I decided to build an engine that implements all of it. And I barely wrote any code myself.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/building-a-modular-monolith/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/building-a-modular-monolith/A practical guide to building a modular monolith in Kotlin and Spring BootSat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/mana-from-the-machine/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/mana-from-the-machine/Building an AI system that generates complete, custom Magic: The Gathering sets, covering theme creation, card mechanics, AI-generated artwork, rendering, and creating playable output for virtual tabletops.Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/tails-of-power-ai-video-experiment/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/tails-of-power-ai-video-experiment/"Tails of Power" explores the current capabilities of AI video generation tools. By combining Midjourney's image generation, Kling AI's animation, and AI-generated music and sound effects, this project demonstrates both the potential and limitations of creating cinematic content with AI.Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/the-shift/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/the-shift/In "The Shift," we follow Alex's journey through a world transformed by artificial general intelligence (AGI). From the early days of neural interfaces and AI companions to the establishment of a new global economic order, the story explores how humanity adapts to rapid technological change.Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/quantum-aeon/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/quantum-aeon/A story to read or to listen, written about and by alien intelligence.Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/imaginary-creatures-2/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/imaginary-creatures-2/Discovering an alien planet using AI photography with midjourney 5.Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/gpt-4-general-intelligence/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/gpt-4-general-intelligence/Exploring GPT-4's General Intelligence. How GPT-4 tackles the challenges of an interactive text adventure.Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/museum-of-imaginary-art/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/museum-of-imaginary-art/A museum with artists imagined by GPT-3 and artworks created by Midjourney.Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/building-a-language-model/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/building-a-language-model/In this blogpost I am going to code a text generation model from scratch, based on the transformer architecture.Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/using-dreambooth-with-stable-diffusion/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/using-dreambooth-with-stable-diffusion/Using Dreambooth to create a customized stable diffusion model for my cat.Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/imaginary-creatures/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/imaginary-creatures/Created by GPT-3, Dall-e 2 and meMon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/songwriting-with-gpt-3/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/songwriting-with-gpt-3/Using a finetuned version of GPT-3 to write lyrics in the preferred style.Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/music-generation-creating-a-song-for-the-ai-song-contest-2021/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/music-generation-creating-a-song-for-the-ai-song-contest-2021/How we created a song for the AI Song Contest 2021 with the help of transformers and other music generation techniques.Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/lunar-lander-dqn/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/lunar-lander-dqn/Solving the OpenAI gym LunarLander environment with the help of DQN implemented with Keras.Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/starting-a-ghost-blog/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/starting-a-ghost-blog/A guide for setting up your own self-hosted Ghost CMS blog on Ubuntu 20.04 using Docker Compose.Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://wingedsheep.com/blog/programming-carcassonne/https://wingedsheep.com/blog/programming-carcassonne/I describe my process of programming the board game Carcassonne in Python, and my preparations for using this game as a reinforcement learning environment.Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT