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New May 31, 2025
AI: did you check your work? [blog]
There's no denying that the web industry, as with many others, has AI and LLMs as a ubiquitous presence. There's all kinds of different uses for LLMs, and comes with all the ethical concerns - ignored...
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New May 1, 2025
Showing book clippings on my blog [blog]
After jailbreaking my Kindle and seeing how simple it was and how all existing functionality was retained, I spotted that there was a My Clippings.txt file on the Kindle when mounted (I'm sure it's...
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New Apr 26, 2025
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War [book]
Maybe you've read this book, and you feel a sense of despair. I think before read the book I had a sense of despair. This book did an excellent job of articulating my despair. Articulating ideas that...
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New Apr 18, 2025
How I made an LED driver smart… [blog]
…by just a little. Our family bathroom has a cabinet with an IR sensor that turns on LEDs in the side of the cabinet. The IR sensor is "wave your hand under the cabinet" and the lights go on...
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New Apr 7, 2025
Do politics belong at web events? [blog]
This question has been asked before and discussed before and I've always looked on from the sidelines, even though, as a conference organiser, I do in fact have fairly strong opinions about...
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New Mar 25, 2025
Making a Killing (DI Fawley #7) [book]
Wanted to like it more, the gimmicks frustrated me. I've read every DI Fawley book and I've always enjoyed them. I'm starting to think of these books as a bit of guilty pleasure. However, I'm limited...
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New Mar 22, 2025
The day piracy changed [blog]
It certainly wasn't today. It was some time ago, but I wanted to mark this in my blog as a reminder that once, long ago, piracy was, well, stealing. That's all changed...
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New Mar 8, 2025
Devs: draw your line [blog]
This post is for my developers out there, web and otherwise. We have super powers. We can make something functional from practically nothing. And you know what they say about great power… So this is...
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New Feb 25, 2025
The Time Machine [book]
Facinating for when it was written, but felt like it was sort of missing a story. I'm definitely reading these older classics so that I acquaint myself with what I've assumed all my peers read when...
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New Feb 24, 2025
Upgrading USB devices to USB-C [blog]
For a small home project, my son suggested adding some under lights to a plant stand we recently added to our kitchen. I figured we could do this with a cheap LED strip and it could connect to the...