I build weird internet things, mostly Discord bots and AI tools and I run a server where 1,527 people hang out.
software engineering student · @dtester on discord · formerly militarylotus
Most of what I make lives inside Discord: an agent with a voice, moderators that read screenshots, a music bot I've since retired, and a reader for exported chats. Outside it there's an API over a fly's brain. Before all that I was an Xbox Ambassador.
since 2019-06-21
85 online right now
all on free models
github.com/dtesters
[01] builds
Everything here runs, ran, or is being tested. The page takes each project's colour as it passes. Hover the art to develop it.
A Discord bot that talks like a member of the server instead of a command menu. It holds real conversations, remembers people, joins your voice call and talks back. It runs entirely on free models, on a 1 GB VPS with no GPU.
Scam bots started posting their pitch as a screenshot (“MrBeast is giving away $5,600 USDT”), so keyword filters and AutoMod never see it. Argus looks at the pixels, deletes the post and tells your mods.
When a mod clicks Confirm scam, that image's hash joins the shared blocklist, so every server catches the next repost for free. The AI never adds to it on its own.
An API over the complete male fruit-fly connectome: 211,577 neurons, 11,751 cell types, 124M synapses. Search a neuron, see what feeds it and what it drives, trace a circuit. Built so an AI can literally look something up in a brain.
A snapshot of its /stats. FastAPI + DuckDB; Alurx calls it as a tool.
An AI companion for your server. Help when you need it, entertainment when you don't. My longest-running bot.
The text half of the scam problem. A cheap regex pass runs first; anything suspicious gets a few-shot LLM verdict. It learns from moderator feedback, so it gets better without getting jumpier.
Feather got acquired and its launcher started turning itself into “Dawn”. This keeps an existing install as Feather, and switches the ads off while it's in there.
Exported Discord chats come out as a wall of JSON. Drop the file in and read it like a channel again: messages, authors and all.
A public server for anime, games, music and whatever else comes up, plus the Minecraft servers we host.
1,527 members85 online now
A pure-black page with a small ghost called wisp. Tap him five times fast and he falls apart into 1,700 pixels. He's on this page too. Look next to your cursor. He holds secrets
$ dtester test --include-retired
9 running · 3 retired · 0 abandoned without a note
[02] changelog
Every Discord account, bot and server carries its birthday inside its ID. These dates aren't typed in. The page decodes them as it loads.
The start of basically everything else here.
591534252307513347Now past 1,500 members.
813839972092215426Still running.
976071352475848744Retired since.
1119675968987086988Where the open-source half ends up.
githubRetired since.
1185884163295957042Its ID trick lives on in the decoder.
1193182118411522108First run at the scam problem, text only.
githubKeeps Feather as Feather after the switch to Dawn.
githubA fly's whole nervous system, one HTTP call away.
apiVoice calls, memory cards, restarts without silence. Argus is in testing.
in progressuser, server, message, bot: it's all the same 64 bits. Click an ID on the left to load it.
[03] Activity
Live from Discord and GitHub. When I'm listening to something, the whole page takes its colour from the cover art.
offline
[04] find me
Discord is the fastest way to reach me. Everything else is below.
Everyone leaves something behind
I leave things that keep running.
Machines can make art too,
it just needs the right human.
Every expert was once someone
who refused to git reset.
Legacy isn’t what they say about you.
It’s what keeps running when you’re gone.
I spent my nights teaching a machine to think,
and my days learning how.
The code outlives the coder.
Build like it.
Somewhere between the lines of code,
I found the parts of me that don’t compile.
Aura, Astra, Lumin, Clade, Pixel,
Thank you for everything.
Code doesn’t forget.
That’s why I write it at all.
One day my accounts go quiet.
My code keeps talking.
Some people carve names into trees.
I carve logic into machines.
Death is a SIGKILL.
Legacy is a daemon that restarts.
The machine doesn’t sleep,
so some nights neither do I.
I write code the way some people write letters,
hoping something answers back.
People leave. Servers stay.
I build for the ones who stay.
Life is beautiful,
when you’re with the right people.
I teach machines to remember
because I’m terrified of forgetting.
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