Distributed Thinking Systems Blog
A platform for insights, updates, and discussions on AI, parental alienation, and family law technology.
Topics Covered
Personal Stories & Case Studies: Real-world experiences and success stories of families impacted by parental alienation.
- Legal & Psychological Insights: Expert perspectives from family law professionals and mental health specialists.
- AI & Technology in Family Law: How AI detects communication patterns linked to alienation, updates on our Case-Analytics project, and ethical considerations.
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Community & Advocacy: Resources, policy discussions, and opportunities for collaboration.
Blog Entries
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UnicodeFix: 2025-07-28: Extended ASCII, Global Ready
Quick update: UnicodeFix now handles extended 8-bit ASCII. If you’re dealing with files from Europe or anywhere special characters roam - like “München,” “façade,” “Niño,” or “straße” - they’ll now get cleaned up right along with the Unicode ghosts..
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UnicodeFix: Enough of Your AI Nonsense (2025 Major Release)
The Unicode arms race gets real. Here’s how we’re fighting back.
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VenvUtil Update: Smarter Shell-Based Python Environment Management
The VenvUtil shell toolkit is evolving fast: improved command logging, smarter environment rollbacks, easier cloning, and real-world robustness for anyone working in Python on macOS or Linux.
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TorchDevice 0.5.2: Still Beta, but Three Months of Refactoring, Testing, and Real-World Breakthroughs
TorchDevice is a compatibility layer that makes PyTorch code written for CUDA “just work” on Apple’s MPS (and vice versa), with minimal friction for devs. It’s the kind of glue that shouldn’t exist-but absolutely needs to if you live on both sides of the Apple/NVIDIA divide.
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LogGPT: NEW 1.0.6 - Fixed issue with loading
Just as Apple approved the second release of LogGPT, OpenAI quietly changed the Document Object Model (DOM) on ChatGPT’s site-breaking the download button injection.
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Parental Alienation Detection and Prevention using Artificial Intelligence Analytics
Parental alienation remains one of the most difficult and heartbreaking challenges in high-conflict family dynamics. When one parent actively undermines the child’s relationship with the other, the consequences can be devastating. Unfortunately, these behaviors often manifest subtly-through messages, emails, transcripts, and voice communications-that are difficult to analyze manually.
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LogGPT: NEW 1.0.5 - Your ChatGPT Conversations, Exported with Privacy & Ease
After a long journey through Apple’s review process, I’m thrilled to announce that LogGPT, the Safari extension designed to let you export your entire ChatGPT conversation history as structured JSON files, is now officially available on the Apple App Store!
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UnicodeFix: The Day Invisible Characters Broke Everything
It started with a broken script. Ended with a clean, fast, cross-tool Unicode scrubber. Built in less than 10 hours.
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Getting Started with VenvUtil: Python Virtual Environment Management
Managing Python virtual environments sounds simple - until your projects grow, your dependencies tangle, and suddenly you’re knee-deep in broken builds and lost environments. Venvutil started as a small set of Bash scripts to make managing virtual environments a little less painful. It has since evolved into a powerful toolkit that handles everything from creating, activating, and cloning environments to logging every change and enabling full environment rollbacks - all without leaving your shell.
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Remote Debugger With VSCode and Its Derivatives
How to Debug Remotely with VSCode:
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Submitted (Again) to the Apple App Store
UPDATE: LogGPT Available Now on the Apple App Store Now!:
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Powerful Tools for Python Virtual Environment Management
Managing Python virtual environments effectively can become complex as projects grow and dependencies evolve. Our latest updates provide comprehensive shell-based tools designed to simplify virtual environment handling, improve transparency, and enhance control.
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Announcing TorchDevice 0.0.5 Beta – Transparent Hardware Redirection for PyTorch
We’re pleased to announce the release of TorchDevice 0.0.5 Beta, a significant milestone in simplifying hardware compatibility for PyTorch applications. This release introduces robust enhancements, thorough testing, and a powerful new CPU override feature to ensure seamless integration across CUDA and Apple Silicon (Metal) hardware.
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Introducing LogGPT ChatGPT Chatlog Export
I submitted the app to the Apple App Store for review. I would appreciate it of you would buy a copy from teh app store to help offset the Apple Developer Tax (cost of my Apple Developer Account). Whether that or you could drop me something in my Patreon or Ko-Fi.
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Harnessing AI for Change: The Next Chapter for Distributed Thinking Systems
Parental alienation is a slow, insidious process, often unfolding in subtle shifts of language, repeated patterns of exclusion, and emotional manipulation hidden within everyday communication. The words that once carried love and trust become barriers, severing bonds between parents and children. For those affected, the experience is devastating. The pain lingers, compounded by the fact that so often, the signs go unnoticed until it is too late.
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Adapting and Advancing: Progress Across Projects
The past few months have been a whirlwind of progress, setbacks, and unexpected developments. From debugging web frameworks to crafting advanced tools for Python environments, I’ve been deeply immersed in a variety of projects. Today, I want to reflect on some key milestones and share insights from my journey.
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Building This Site With AI
Initially I wanted to use a web builder which would produce my HTML, CSS, and SCSS files, in a nice WISIWIG format and even tried out a couple of the web builder products. I mostly wanted something I could move to any hosting service available and did not want to get locked into a proprietary platform. I tried Mobirise, but didn’t like their pricing model, you could buy lots of nice modules, but had to pay a recurring fee to use them, then I tried Sparkle, but there was a high learning curve for someone who is a s non-creative as me. I liked Sparkle, and might give it another ho sometime, but learning it was going to take a lot of effort.
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AI Coding Assistants
I’ve been working for the past three weeks to make this site public. Although it’s still under construction, I’m happy to announce that it is now online. There was a lot to do to get it working—researching hosting options, web frameworks, and more. Throughout this process, I’ve relied on several AI assistants to help me get the site up and running. I primarily use macOS as my development platform with VS Code, and up until about a week ago, I was using GitHub Copilot along with GPT-4o. However, I recently discovered Codeium and have decided to switch over to it as my in-IDE coding assistant.