Okay, so the love of my life got me a swell AI assistant because I am not great at writing down all the things I need to do, nor am I at all good at remembering them, let alone doing them. And it’s helpful, it really is. But even so, the tech is…well, I’m goingContinue reading “My New AI Overlord”
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Home automation system Home Assistant
Home automation is a thing that keeps getting talked about and marketed and played with, but which overwhelmingly manages to miss being actually useful for me. “Set the lights in the den to 50% and tinted amber,” is such a common example that I feel like I must be one of the only humans whoContinue reading “Home automation system Home Assistant”
Well-known avatar location
Terence Eden wrote a blog about a proposal for, essentially, “You want my avatar? Fine, you have my email address, go get it yourself.” Which, I must say, I like the premise. A lot. Since the key, in this exchange, is a person’s email address, the proposed service would most likely be something handled byContinue reading “Well-known avatar location”
Software Architecture Headache – Dependencies
I want to make my applications share data across devices, and do it even if the greater Internet is unavailable, if there’s a local network. So, peer-to-peer stuff. I went looking and found a framework that seems to be aimed directly at peer networking: LibP2P. There’s even a Swift implementation of it, sort of. EarlyContinue reading “Software Architecture Headache – Dependencies”
Framework: PowerSync
I’ve decided not to sweat trying to sell my applications (or even make them available) through the App Store. That is pretty freeing, really. It means I can stop trying to solve everyone’s problems and just focus on solving my problems. Given this new clarity, I’ve been thinking about what my problems really are, and the oneContinue reading “Framework: PowerSync”
App Publishing Tool: AltStore
This has come across my awareness a couple of times in the past several weeks, and it sort of entangles with some app development ideas I’ve been wrestling with. But anyway: AltStore. It’s a way to distribute apps to iOS platforms without (sort of) going through the Apple App Store. The easy way is onlyContinue reading “App Publishing Tool: AltStore”
My Creepy AI Tool
I recently spent some time with an LLM doing some brainstorming. Some people have observed that our current crop of AI models don’t so much create as they copy and remix. Let me just start out by saying that I’m not great at everything, and if there’s a way for me to ask the, I dunno, few hundred millionContinue reading “My Creepy AI Tool”
Bronze Age Brain Cloud
Discussions about the use of AI (specifically LLMs) in business are all around right now. Here’s some link soup, with fresh ingredients sourced over just the past few days: use of AI tools at work mandated vibe coding drops production database (but the question of not using the LLM doesn’t arise) AI generated music purportsContinue reading “Bronze Age Brain Cloud”
Static Site or Not?
Recently I’ve been interacting with Apple Help Books and, as a result, static site tools. I’m starting to wonder if maybe I should migrate my blog over to a static site kind of thing. The current site is a WordPress blog, but I’m in no way using all the whiz-bang options available there. What’s theContinue reading “Static Site or Not?”
MTBP: Take Two, This Time, With Guidance
Let’s try this again. This time around, I’ll start with a clear and simple statement of what I want to achieve with the program, and how I want the user experience to feel. There’s a clear use case, and it will probably exclude a lot of people, and I don’t care. I’m not trying toContinue reading “MTBP: Take Two, This Time, With Guidance”