Things are definitely changing a bit faster than I expected. And, it is easiest to see these changes if I look as far outside my typical day-to-day tech usage as I can. Once I do, I find things like this Tom Scott video…
I am a bit older than Tom. And, I do remember everything that he mentions...
Because I have been keeping a journal electronically for so long, I standardized on plain text files. After all, just about everything can read plain text (txt) files.
At one of my first programming jobs, I was then required to use Vim, and once I got the hang of it, it became my prefered way to...
She’s asleep in the next room, just like the old days. My daughter is curled up in a pile of blankets while I type away as quietly as I can manage, hoping to not disturb her. She came out from Boston to check on me. A bit of a role reversal. But the help is welcome nonetheless.
It was often in the...
The hardest time of year in New England for me are the weeks before the weeks between winter and spring. Not quite time for mud season but with the depth of the winter cold definitely already passed. The ground still hard, the ice still frozen in layers — not really arctic ice cores, but as close as...
I may never know what I knew, or when I knew it.
In truth, I did have death on my mind. I don’t think this was a true morbidity of thought. It was more the presence of a passing made more immanent through a current presentation of fragility.
The phrase “death is in the air” does bear examinati...
On February 14, 2010, she left this world for the next. It’s 13 years later and I think I am only now really coming to terms with it.
Loss has a weight, solid and unmoving. It lodges itself tightly, unshiftingly inside me. In a place that feels to be between breath and sadness; so large, that I...
What is our bebop?
An odd sounding question that only really makes sense once you have listened to The Day The Music Stopped an episode from the podcast One Year, that I heard in my 99% Invisible feed.
It goes deep into a story of musicians dealing with technological changes that they felt w...
I like to mono-task, and I like to do it with focus and intention. In my opinion, multitasking is highly overrated. I am never as effective with a divided mind as I am when I can focus singularly.
One of the hardest parts of this for me to manage is distraction. Something comes up that should just...
PostADay seems to be working for me and I am really trying to figure out why. On the face of it, promising to do A Post A Day does not seem all that different from doing Morning Pages but in the doing of things, they don’t really feel the same at all.
That could, at least in part, be due to expe...
It smelled of old coffee. So many things do.
My finger ran across the dry skin feeling puckers and bumps that I could not see, only feel.
I could see stains though; more coffee, no doubt.
Dust had worked its way into the edge where the skin met the wood. The dryness meant that it was still jus...
What I remember most was the chain. It was huge. Each link in it, bigger than my skull. It snaked out the back of a massive truck, down passed the end of the street, through the police barricade, across the sand and into the water.
The Belt Parkway ran along the horizon on the other side of the wa...
When I heard about the new ChatGPT Subscription Plan, I started to wonder how Viral Licenses, specifically the Creative Commons, could affect the progress of Artificial Intelligence.
Simply put, tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT collect, analyse, and learn from large sets of data they find b...
Don’t get me wrong. I love the Admin Bar that WordPress shows on sites that I maintain. But, there are a few things that I want to change.
- Move the Admin Bar to the bottom of the screen.
The top of the screen is prime real estate. And on sites that I maintain, I tend to design/tweak themes. So,...
A few days ago, ChatGPT seemed happy to help me look up some pronunciations; a few days later, it doesn’t want to help me out anymore.
Once I had a well formed query, ChatGPT had been very helpful.
I was so happy with the result, that I posted about it here. A few days later all of that seem...
For me, this year began with a resolution to simplify, to reduce the noise that I felt was affecting my day. I knew this was something that I wanted to do but until I stumbled upon this Vlog Bothers video, (ironically enough) I had had a hard time putting my goal into words 🙂
John telling his...
