This is more of a whinge than anything constructive. For all three readers who follow this blog, feel free to skip this entry unless you’re dying to find out why I haven’t made any progress on my current coding project.
Category Archives: Intellectual Curiosity
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”
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”
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”
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?”
Social, But Offline
I just saw a software update that mentioned GoToSocial so I looked it up to see what it is. And honestly, it’s kind of a thing I want, but barely. So, think about posting, reading other people’s posts, you know, that whole online conversation thing. What do I really want? I want to hear from peopleContinue reading “Social, But Offline”
Webassembly: Do I Want That?
From a first glance at the Webassembly (abbreviated as WASM) site, it’s hard to tell what it’s for. A little bit of digging, though, gives me the idea that it’s a way to write an application that gets delivered to users from a web server and which runs in the browser. This is sort ofContinue reading “Webassembly: Do I Want That?”
Another Really Cool Thing I’m Not Gonna Do
I just read an article on Ars Technica, reviewing a new telescope. Super cool. Well written and, while I was reading it, nearly convinced me to buy a telescope. We live out in the woods. Often, when I take the dogs out at night, I look up and see stars and planets, and frequently evenContinue reading “Another Really Cool Thing I’m Not Gonna Do”
nix, lix, and Reproducibility
I’ve just spent the morning reading through some documentation and tutorials for nix, trying to figure out what it is, whether it’s cool, and whether I should be using it. Also, trying to figure out what this lix thing is. And of course, this is a dependency chain — I started out at the lastContinue reading “nix, lix, and Reproducibility”
Experimenting With Federation
Generally, I reserve this blog for, you know, blog stuff. Long form, where I ramble about things and post code snippets and multiple links to things I’m thinking about. For quite a while, now, I’ve had the ActivityPub plugin enabled on this site, as I tried to figure out how to engage with the FediverseContinue reading “Experimenting With Federation”