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New Sep 5, 2024
Ted Chaing on AI and art [link]
I can't stop thinking about this quote from Ted Chiang (originally snipped by Simon Willison). Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me...
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New Aug 30, 2024
The moment before: 30th Aug [blog]
I don't like waking up on this particular day. I almost want to just skip the day and not face it. I don't like it because I know there's a version of me that's waking up to this particular morning in...
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New Aug 9, 2024
I Will Luddite AI by Robert Kingett [link]
A long but excellent article or even essay on AI, it's appeal to the blindness community, prompt injection, hacking and a wealth of links and well thought out discussion. Like Robert I only really...
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New Aug 6, 2024
Making a dumb doorbell smart [blog]
And no, I didn't just pop a bow tie on my doorbell! I recently installed Home Assistant on a spare Raspberry Pi I had laying around, and though our house isn't very smart-enabled, I thought it...
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New Aug 5, 2024
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [book]
Really interesting ideas sandwiched in a bit of a weird trip. I'm sure there's an English studies thesis for this book, but I'm utterly unqualified. This book was, kind of all over the shop. I'm very...
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New Jul 26, 2024
SENDUNE html email designers [link]
The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as...
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New Jul 23, 2024
Screen reading eff eff conf [blog]
In a recent (personal) audit of accessibility and continued struggle to get my head around Voice Over (for macos), I remembered that the spoken sound of "ffconf" (as I'll usually display it)...
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New Jul 12, 2024
Is AI part and parcel of web dev? [blog]
Over the last year+ I've seen AI quickly increase its dominance in the social feeds I follow. I know I'm in an echo chamber, but it feels like working on the web, you/we must understand how AI works...
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New Jul 10, 2024
Book Lovers [book]
A romance story, some clever writing, slightly predictable, not entirely my bag. I think, because I only started reading in the last decade, that I've not read a "proper" romance novel...
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New Jul 5, 2024
Say what? On tinnitus and hearing [blog]
In January this year I was upgraded from guy who has tinnitus and bad hearing, to upgraded ears (via hearing aids) and, for a brief time, no...
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Jun 7, 2024
Adding tests to a TypeScript, Next, tRPC project without the faff [blog]
Aside from the cringe inducing stack I've got layered, with client projects you (actually, me) work with the hand you've been dealt. I needed to add tests to this particular project (which will...
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May 29, 2024
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow [book]
Favourite book of my year: wonderful. I loved the characters. I've loved the story telling. I loved the passion around work. I loved the love between the characters. Crossing multiple decades but the...
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May 25, 2024
Casio f-91w Modding [blog]
I do love my Pebble mostly because it still uses tactile buttons and it's a slim watch. Though recently I saw that Casio offered a design in a bright orange colour (and then found a multitude of...