We’re not a software company. And that’s probably for the best.
MacPowerDev is a tiny amateur development project created by people who enjoy experimenting with technology, learning new things and occasionally managing to build something that actually works.
We’ve been doing this — very intermittently — for quite a while.
Over the years we’ve experimented with Android themes, live wallpapers, small apps and games such as MC Sudoku. Sometimes a project became an actual released app. Sometimes it didn’t. Either way, we usually learned something along the way.
Then we disappeared for a while.
We’re quite good at that.
And now there’s AI…
Recently, our curiosity moved towards local Artificial Intelligence.
Not because we own a laboratory full of GPUs.
Quite the opposite.
Our current AI playground is an ageing desktop PC with an Intel i7-8700, 32 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 2070 with 8 GB of VRAM.
It wasn’t exactly designed for the AI revolution.
Nobody told it.
So we’re experimenting with local language models, image generation, Python and whatever else seems interesting, trying to discover how much can actually be done with hardware that ordinary people might already have at home.
Our latest experiment is AERIS RPG: an attempt to find out whether a locally running AI can behave less like a text generator and more like an actual Dungeon Master — improvising, remembering what happened and adapting an adventure to the player’s decisions.
Will it work?
We have absolutely no idea.
That’s why we’re doing it.
What you’ll find here
MacPowerDev is basically our little development notebook on the Internet.
We’ll occasionally write about things we’re building, experiments that worked, experiments that didn’t, local AI, games, generated images and whatever technology manages to distract us next.
Don’t expect regular release schedules, corporate announcements or revolutionary claims about changing the world.
We’re amateurs.
We experiment.
Sometimes we even finish things.
And if something we discover helps somebody else with an equally underpowered computer and an equally unreasonable amount of curiosity, even better.
Welcome to MacPowerDev.
