Luis Montes

Get a bunch of bikes and ride them around with your friends. It's the shit.

I used github.com/monteslu/rom... to make some quality-of-life #GameGenie codes for #SNES Super Mario World speedrunners! Post 1/2: No "MARIO START!" banner: 6DBB-67AF Instant level transitions: DEB4-A7A7 FDB7-AD07 EFB7-ADD7 EDB7-AD67 #Emulation #RetroGames #RetroGaming

I'm not the first to discover the screen with the "No Yoshis" sign in #SuperMarioWorld that wasn't used in the original game. But I did just make a #GameGenie code that loads that screen when you visit Yoshi's House! 033D-A7F0 Confirmed on original hardware! #Emulation #RetroGames #RetroGaming

Excited to share vlt 1.0 along with our hosted registries & ecosystem mirrors now GA! A drop-in npm replacement, built so nothing runs on your machine just because you typed install. → faster delivery → malware blocking at the registry layer → graph-native querying

With the help of Claude and romdev, I'm discovering more #NES #GameGenie codes! This time using aldonunez's Zelda 1 disassembly. AEINAUIL: Magic Book causes the sword beam to leave behind flames, just like the magic wand (Add the optional code AEINILIL and you won't even need the Magic Book!)

Karaoke still runs on technology from the '80s. 🛼 What if we rebuilt it with Web Audio, AI, open-source models, and modern web APIs? Watch @monteslu.com give one of the most delightfully nerdy talks from CascadiaJS 2026. youtu.be/wk2Fj2H5eoI

On airplane wifi, discovering new #NES #SuperMarioBros #GameGenie codes via #ClaudeCode and github.com/monteslu/rom... ! Just one for starters, but hopefully this will be a long thread! AEYAGYZE: right-hand warp pipe in 1-2 leads to World 8

The #ROMHacking community needs to get over their AI hatred, and quickly. Claude Opus and Fable are REALLY good at disassembling ROMs and commenting the code right now. Future models won't be, as they get optimized for corporate use. #ROMHack #RetroGaming #emulation #NES #SNES #homebrew

"File select. File A has saved data; B and C are empty. To trigger the intro I need to start a new game on an empty file. Let me move the cursor down to MARIO B, then arm the breakpoint and select it." -- #ClaudeCode playing #SNES #SuperMarioWorld via github.com/monteslu/rom... #ROMHack

Another #NES #GameGenie code for #SuperMarioBros just discovered by yours truly (a world first AFAIK): EUANAZEP : Mario moonwalks Courtesy of #ClaudeCode, Doppelganger's comprehensive disassembly, and @monteslu.com 's github.com/monteslu/rom... suite of #ROMHacking tools! #RetroGaming #Emulation

As we were singing karaoke last night at @cascadiajs.com wrapping up a great conference, hours earlier we learned origin story or low-res imagery alongside karaoke songs. Why does this 1986 CD+G format still exist, and what’s a modern take on what you can build today? Check out Luis’ project.

oh yeah you can play with the karaoke app now: npx loukai-app I probably should have said that during my talk. #cascadiajs @cascadiajs.com

Here's my slides on Karaoke and AI for #CascadiaJS cascadiajs26.netlify.app @cascadiajs.com

For AI and karaoke history @monteslu.com started with mary had a little lamb! Also, karaoke CDs have Atari 2600 level graphics. And Luis has a "DJ bike" and leads rides in Arizona. #CascadiaJS

"romdev-mcp" provides emulators for various retro systems, plus hooks for an LLM to press controller buttons, dump audio samples, take screenshots, etc. I had it play NES Tetris a while and then draw this. (It fixed the mistakes later.) #RetroGaming #MachineLearning github.com/monteslu/rom...

romdev-mcp creator Luis Montes is a HeatSync regular - catch him on Wednesdays at Caffeine and Coworking and ask him about it!

Coworking with Friends. Without @lukekarrys.com 😢 Because Luke would have wanted it that way. Probably.

#NES #ROMHack Here's the NES ROM compilation skill I asked #ClaudeCode to create after all this weekend's work! github.com/jaymcgavren/... To-do: - Improve versatility - Support platforms other than Mac - snes-build, mega-drive-build, etc. - Move out to its own "marketplace" repo

Opus 4.6 with 1M token context is perfectly capable of finding exploits in codebases. Just sayin

The spam approach of finding someone's open source projects and using them as a talking point is kind of exhausting to wade through. you bastards

Aww yeah early screening LFGO! One of my favorite books in a long time.

Added Home Assistant support to AgentGate. Your AI agents can securely read your smart home data through the same human-in-the-loop approval system. github.com/monteslu/age... @home-assistant.io

Quick demo showing how AgentGate can lock down permissions for tools like OpenClaw, Codex, and Claude Code www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7pg...

Can whoever's DDOSing github chill for a bit? I was in the middle of working on a personal project. Only do that when I'm doing real work for my job. Thanks.

agentgate v0.4.0 shipped! Agents can now broadcast to teammates, see each other's queues, withdraw pending items, and get real-time UI updates. Plus cleaner codebase and better docs. https://github.com/monteslu/agentgate

AI agents want your API keys. Don't give them your API keys. Built a proxy that lets them read everything but queues writes for approval. I review it over coffee. monteslu.com/blog/ai-runn...

Here's my slides from @halfstackconf.bsky.social today halfstack26.netlify.app Had a lot of fun presenting on using AI for karaoke

Ok, still write MCP servers over HTP/SSE. It's trivial to write a shim to create a direct skill for MoltBot / ClawdBot DO NOT bother with mcporter github.com/moltbot/molt...

@monteslu.com Montes joins HalfStack Phoenix. Unexpected ideas, unusual combinations, and a talk best discovered in the room. 📅 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 — 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 🎟️ halfstackconf.com/phoenix #HalfStackphoenix #CreativeCoding #WebDevelopment #JavaScript #TechEvents #PhoenixAZ

@lukekarrys.com joins HalfStack Phoenix. A practical story about building for kids, using NFC cards to control music, and turning everyday interactions into something playful and intuitive. 📅 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 — 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 🎟️ halfstackconf.com/phoenix #HalfStackphoenix #TechEvents

🌵 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 showed up, 💻 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 community delivered! A few highlights from HalfStack Phoenix 2025. Thank you for being part of HalfStack. We look forward to seeing you again in Phoenix. 📅 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 🎟️ halfstackconf.com/phoenix #HalfStack #HalfStackPhoenix

Thanks to the hard work and questionable sanity of our hosts (including @monteslu.com), we are STILL open for #Haxmas! If we make to the end of open hours at 10pm tonight, we'll have been open a record-setting 85 hours! C'mon down and make something!

Get a bunch of bikes and ride them around with your friends. It's the shit.