"We’ve also faced intense criticism and even personal attacks against a number of Automatticians from members of the “community” who want Matt and others to step away from the project," writes Automattic on their official blog.
Yes, Automattic, you have faced intense criticism. And, at this poin...
Moving house is an odd thing, even when that house turns out to be a virtual one. Usually, visual changes here are purely design changes as both my tastes and my design skills evolve. But, this time, many of the changes you see are connected to a migration (or move) of what and how this site functio...
“The fact that [AI]’s specific output cannot be predicted by users makes [AI] different for copyright purposes than other tools used by artists.”
They were specifically talking about the art-making AI, Midjourney in this ruling, but as a precedent, what does this mea...
The news that Facebook and Instagram would be joining Twitter in charging for verification got me thinking about the state of social media and where it is going. The old business model for a social media platform was simple enough to understand:
- Platform grows to have a large amount of users i...
Cold Readings — you either love them or you hate them.
You have very little insight into the script. You don’t know how the scene is going to resolve, let alone the entire story. In a way, it can be scarier than improv because unlike improv there can be a wrong choice that you’ll need to go back a...
I have been avoiding writing about AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning (ML) in audiobooks so far, but with the changes currently underway, not talking about it is no longer an option.
We’ve seen it happen in movies, so we have expected it to come to audiobooks for quite some time: de...
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...
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...
It’s no secret that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has started to affect the way we work as audiobook narrators. Usually, posts like this focus on how AI negatively impacts the work that we do. Here, I will talk about something positive.
Unfortunately, it has become more and more common for audioboo...
Like many other blogs across the web, this blog automatically sends out links about new posts to various social media platforms in an effort to increase discoverability.
Occasionally, those links to social media platforms “expire” and need to be renewed. And, since I have not been the most consist...
Like ProTools, REAPER is a professional grade DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and a license can be purchased for as little as $60. Like most true DAWs, REAPER is designed first and foremost around music production. So, some configuring is needed to optimize i...
