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I was not a very popular person when I was young. For a variety of reasons, I did not fit in with my peers, mostly due to my own awkwardness and antisocial tendencies. In my late teens I…

Of all the objections on the menu against the AI industry (the scraping, the labor tucked behind the word "automation," the concentration of power in a few companies), water is the one that…

A while back I fed a paragraph of my own fiction into GPTZero, the way you'd press a bruise. Not to prove the machine wrote it; to find out how much of it was still me. There's a number it gives…

I think there's a thing in martial arts most people never practice. Between one pose and the next there's movement, and there's understanding inside the movement, and the instructor only ever…

A company I worked at became flush, and as a celebration decided the next logical move was rewriting most of the customer-facing platform. Not because it was failing, but because it was outdated,…

Last week I was in a training where they paired us up to write code with an LLM, which was a frustrating waste of a day in nearly every dimension except one: it made it really obvious that…

I feel like I'm doing these at the wrong time of day currently. Like a nightcap of sorts. Probably doesn't matter as these words are falling to an audience of none. Today I was toying with the…

Every technology gets the same flurries of woe and worry before it's even truly born. Plato had Socrates warning that writing would rot our memory—people trusting "external marks" instead of…

Today I worked out some sequence diagrams in PUML for some ways of handling old auth issues like deeplinks via SSO and passkey management. Neither of which is exciting to talk about. I also made…

I spent most of today playing with this site, mostly cleaning up some CSS inconsistencies and playing with getting a comment system going. The fact that it's run like a git repo made the entire…

I was lucky enough to catch Naked Lunch at the Eugene Art House. I took my younger son to see it, to which he described it later as "very creative" and "a little gay". I always find it impressive…

I have decided to write a blog (again?). Having grown through the dotcom era, I saw so many social sites pop up. As an internet guy, I felt compelled to engage in these things constantly,…