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A quiet week at home alone, just me, the cat and the builders. We’re having work done on our garage – most importantly, replacing the leaking roof – and so there was much banging and other builder-y noises from one end of the house.
Because of this…
I can empathize with using AI sometimes; like when a search engine shows no fitting results, or when searching for a loose synonym or jargon with a vague description. Another use case would be generating silly, annoying filler text no one wants to write (like motivational letters) or when you’re…
In defence of Times New Roman by V.H. Belvadi
They believe that anything ‘designed’ should look different from their most basic imagination. Like tossing a load of sand and flattening it before building castles in a sandpit, we are used to thinking of design as first putting…
Fuck! Olivia Dean sounds like Amy Winehouse, especially after a few shots of Lagavulin (16). The smokiness in her timbre; the soulfulness in her delivery; particularly her outpouring emotion in “Let Alone the One You Love,” from her latest release, The Art of Loving. She begins the soul-jazz ballad…
The piece) from Disassociated about being “freed from personal websites” thanks to algorithms and timelines really resonated with me. I’ve long believed that platforms are killing the web; they are not the web.
I recently asked my son if he had ever considered having his own personal website—a blog,…
Three years of ChatGPT. Time flies. A few thoughts on that are mandatory it seems. ChatGPT certainly turned things upside down not only for me as a writer but for many creators. The entire software industry also was turned things even more upside down. It’s hard to imagine what would…
Simon Willison marks the 3-year anniversary of the ChatGPT launch with a blog post about how it almost didn’t happen. Clearly being first matters, but also OpenAI still makes very good products, like their Mac app and Pulse. Hard to predict where things will be in another three years.
Finally received the right Paperlike version for my iPad. Installed without any bubbles. I get the feeling that it transforms my iPad screen into one with a nano texture, but at a fraction of the cost. 🤓😏
I sometimes wonder if we have too uncritically accepted the marketing narrative of social media companies about how connectivity is always good and preferable, and that they as the mediators always need to be the ones facilitating it in their own way.
I’ll have to narrow it down: Of course…
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