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I watched two brilliant video podcasts this week about technology.  The first was all about LLMs (a.k.a. “AI”), and the second was about e...

This week, I really enjoyed The Weekly Show , where Jon Stewart interviewed billionaire Mark Cuban .  Cuban is famous for supplanting Warr...

This week I’ve been fighting my computer curse again.  Still, despite the fact that the computer gods still really hate me, I’ve managed ...

I don’t understand the appeal of Discord. Oh, sure: I understand it for things like gaming.  The few times that I’ve run D&D games...

This week I’ve been concentrating on setting up my file synchronization and versioning system.  For this, I’ve mainly been consulting with...

Once upon a time we used to develop software via something known as the “waterfall model.”  When trying to envision this, don’t think abou...

Several months ago, my work machine started flaking out, so I got the folks at work to order me a new one.  It came, and I was able to use...

Recently, I was listening to a podcas t— it happened to be Election Profit Makers , with the lovely and talented David Rees. 1   In this p...

I’m probably not the first person to tell you this, but there’s a new AI wunderkind taking the Internet by storm, and it’s called ChatGPT....

To say that the computer gods have shat on me would only be an accurate assessment if the pile of shit you’re imagining is the one from Ju...

This weekend I’ve been taking advantage of the lack of a long post and being mostly caught up on $work to finally make some headway on tha...

This week was another of those “the computer gods hate me” weeks.  I found a corrupted file, so I went to look at my backups, only to find...

Lately I’ve been reexamining my relationship to Kickstarter.  Like all websites that suddenly take off, how you used it when it first arri...