DUSK Studio UI / UX improvements. Moving from WIP electron app to fully installable application, including user friendly welcome screen, first time user walkthrough and detailed User Guide manual. Full regression testing still to be finished.
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DUSK AI listed as a shortlisted entry on stage at the Lux Futurum 2026 event in Shenzen, China! Link to all shortlisted entries - luxfuturum.com/en/shortlist
I recently had the pleasure of discussing my journey into Lighting Design and exploration of AI for creative concepts with Martin Klaasen as part of his Light Talk podcasts. curativbloq.substack.com/p/bloqdigita...
Bloqdigital & DUSK on Light Talk!
Check out the podcast episode!
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Migrate your Custom GPT to a plugin they said. It'll be easy, they said... #technology #ai
Changes Required
I am currently at an impasse with Open AI. Their agent migration process has been nothing short of frustrating, and their is a notable lack of (human) support. Whilst my DUSK GPT plugin submission passed initial checks, including the website i had to make with privacy and ToS pages, it was supposedly under Manual Review. I say this as I increasingly doubt a person has been involved. The Result? CHANGES REQUIRED.
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If you are in the tech or AI industry, if you are an architect, interior designer or lighting designer... lets connect. I'm a UK based lighting designer working on AI tools to assist the creative lighting design process for architectural projects. #technology #ai #lighting #architecture
curativbloq.substack.com/p/the-labubu... We have a wonderfully odd and albeit troubling habit of coating technology in a cuddly cute exterior to make it more approachable. It’s also coating potential security risks and genuine privacy concerns. #ai #aiagents #dots #muse #meta #openai
The Labubu Language Model
Muse, Dots and the Security Risks in Sheep’s Clothing.
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There is such a scattergun reaction to the capabilities of AI and what it can genuinely do for us... #ai #technology #culture
The Fragmentation of AI Adoption
There is such a scattergun reaction to the capabilities of AI and what it can genuinely do for us. All I have to do is scroll through LinkedIn... On the one hand, you have people actually building tools and creating software with it, developers using it to speed up writing code, and identifying genuine problems & challenges where it can be useful such as scientific and medical research. Then you have people burning through credits saying I got Claude to make GTA V in a browser! or I made a compu...
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Remove a speck of dust from a photograph and you might find yourself having to convince people that you did, in fact, take the photograph. Dictate your own thoughts and ask a tool to organise them, and somebody else’s software may decide how much of the result belongs to you.
The Nuance Of AI Detection
Back in April 2024, I wrote a piece entitled [Artificial] Intelligence, which looked at the less than delicate diversity overcorrection of AI generative outputs from the likes of Google's Gemini. Now in 2026, despite the release of the EU's AI Labelling system we are still seeing a different kind of sensitivity issue. This time it's a lack of one, from various third party AI detection tools. You see, whilst digital infrastructure is very much binary, the level of application a user / designer / ...
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If you are in the tech or AI industry, if you are an architect, interior designer or lighting designer... lets connect. I'm a UK based lighting designer working on AI tools to assist the creative lighting design process for architectural projects. #technology #ai #lighting #architecture
Open AI is retiring Custom GPT Agents from December 11th. What does this mean for DUSK GPT? It means that DUSK will need to migrate to a GPT Plugin. Whilst DUSK is migrating, you can still use the GPT Agent as normal, right up until the cut-off date. Will keep you all updated!
Some very exciting news to share! Mentoring with Silhouette Awards and Shortlised by Lux Futurum.
Shortlists & Mentorships..
From Being Part of the Silhouette Awards, to DUSK being featured for Lux Futurum! Firstly, I am honoured to be chosen as a Mentor for the Silhouette Awards' 2026-7 Mentorship Program! The Silhouette Awards is a collaboration between Archifos and Parrot PR and Marketing, to shine a light on emerging talent within the lighting industry and support these individuals as they progress throughout their careers. The focus of the awards is to provide support to young professionals, providing a platform ...
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As much as I love using Codex, Windows 11 seems to hate it. Just as I request a task, it puts the program into Efficiency Mode Low Priority and kills it.. I have to have task manager open on the side and dive in before it tries to suppress. Even tried using powershell to prevent it but no dice.
The Devil is in the Detail. In principal, DUSK Local is proving to hold its own. However, what I'm currently working hard to refine and bottom out is the finer detail. Specifically the light painter and lasso tools. Its proving quite a challenge...
Here's what I've been working on in August.. updates for two web apps of mine, LUMVIEWER and TETHERNOTE. Both are free to use and live now.
UPDATES, UPDATES
LUMVIEWER & TETHERNOTE
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Say what you will about AI, but ChatGPT has help solve not one but two different issues I had lately with gaming software. In one instance, it advised why I couldn't see NES roms on my EZFLASH Omega DE, and in the other it helped me fix a permissions issue on running Fantasy Life I on the RG557.
Been distracted with a very busy August.. but I have managed to flesh out and update both my web apps Lumviewer & Tethernote! Lumviewer Writeup - curativbloq.substack.com/p/lumviewer-... Tethernote 2.0 - curativbloq.substack.com/p/tethernote...
LUMVIEWER - Photometry on the fly
Making Lighting Photometric Data Easier to Understand, Quicker.
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The absolute gall of people who have clearly used an AI LLM to write a scathing and critical rant about their distaste and concern over using AI is CRAZY. We can all see it. All of us.
1K Conversations 4 / 5 Stars Have you tried DUSK GPT? Search for DUSK in Open AI's ChatGPT Store.
DUSK GPT has had over 900 chats, and will soon reach the 1K mark! Want to try? Sign in to your GPT account and Click here - chatgpt.com/g/g-6a08c167... OR, search for DUSK GPT in the GPT Store.
The Local AI Builder's Dilemma... The desire to leverage the largest, most capable local models being crushed by the blunt realisation that commercial AI infrastructure has grossly inflated GPU & hardware costs for end users.. Maybe that was their plan all along?
Presenting DUSK to AI Peers was more nerve-wracking then any other audience.. I shouldn't have worried. The community at cr3w.app are awesome.
Presenting DUSK to AI Peers
I had the opportunity to present my little journey with DUSK and where I am now at the CR3W meetup last week to a room of AI builders, software developers and people with ideas like myself, and I was more apprehensive than when I've shown it to anyone else! Would they see right through me as a non-coder? Would they mock the UI? Would they question the route id taken? Would they take it seriously? In reality, it went really well. People offered helpful feedback, asked questions that lead to more ...
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I've been using Flux 2 Klein as a local model to run my Lighting visualiser. I'm very interested to see what improvements Flux 3 will bring (as long as I can run it!)
RAY is a good boy.. he's my new desktop pet for DUSK local. #aitools #duskai #lightingdesign
RAY of Sunshine
RAY is a good boy...
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What on earth am I doing? Wrestling with an AI coding assistant to rebuild my app into a local harness...
The Orange Scribble Problem
I’ve been rebuilding DUSK as a local-first application. DUSK is my attempt to make a practical lighting visualisation tool using generative AI. You upload an image, select an area and describe a lighting treatment: uplight the columns, wash the ceiling, turn the scene into night, add concealed light beneath a bench. The original version relied heavily on Google Gemini. That was useful for getting a prototype working quickly, especially as I am a lighting designer who has somehow wandered into so...
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curativbloq.substack.com/p/design-mor... Design More, Admin Less... Talking all things AI with the IALD at Enlighten Paris 26. #light #iald #ai
Design More, Admin Less
Talking AI with the IALD at Enlighten Paris '26
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Embrace Discomfort.. sometimes its worth the risk. pckt.blog/b/bloqdigita... @pckt.blog
Embrace Discomfort - Off-Topics by Bloqdigital
Sometimes, its worth taking risks
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I really should have invested in a nicer keyboard a long time ago... really enjoying the Nuphy Halo 65 with Lemon Switches.