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ldstephens
A weblog by ldstephens. This is my little corner of the web where I share whatever’s on my mind: stories, random thoughts, and the occasional rant.
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September 15, 2026 Lately, I've fucking around with different ways to organize my writing. I've bounced between editors, moved folders around, written scripts and automations, and tried to come up with the perfect file-based setup. Every time I thought I had it figured out, I found myself changing something again....
September 13, 2026 I have times when I'm just not motivated to do much. This morning is one of those times. It's raining out, which makes me want to lie down and take a nap, even though it's still morning. I'm in my office at my computer, looking out the window to our backyard. Mouse the cat is out there getting a...
September 7, 2026 I just read Winnie Lim’s post, Running a Personal Website Is Not Fun Anymore. She writes about the constant barrage of bots, crawlers, and attacks that have made running her personal website a lot less fun. Her post prompted me to take a look at the firewall traffic for my own site. I’m hosted on...
September 2, 2026 I'm religious about keeping my OSs updated. But yesterday I got a System Settings notification that iOS 26.6.1 was available. I was confused because I was pretty sure I'd already installed it. Curious, I went back to my Things 3 Logbook, and sure enough, I'd marked as completed the task to process...
August 27, 2026 I'm thinking about how I'm using AI and whether I've allowed Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini too much access to my data through plugins, extensions, MCP, Work or Cowork. This all started after watching The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control, an episode of The Ezra Klein Show with Ezra Klein and Helen Toner....
August 23, 2026 Anyway, what I really want to remark on here is the idea of using AI to brainstorm. In the past, I may have written this off as well. But actually, with the rise of the very good AI voice technology — namely, GPT-Voice — I actually have found going back and forth with AI quite useful in helping to...
August 19, 2026 My sites have never been hugely popular and I’ve never had a large audience except for blips and spikes here and there. But that’s not why I have a website. I make blakewatson.com for myself. I do it so I can copy a link and send it to a friend. I do it as a record of my thoughts and passions. I...
August 17, 2026 Translation: No one can ever again use Claude for proofreading their own prose unless they’re willing to risk that the whole thing might be flagged as having been generated by Claude. John Gruber
August 15, 2026 Since I moved my email back to Gmail, I’m letting my Fastmail subscription expire at the end of the month. I still get a few emails trickling in from various places to my @ldstephens.com address, so I wanted a way to make sure I don’t miss anything potentially important. I decided to use Cloudflare’s...
August 12, 2026 I saw this in my RSS feed this week. It caught my attention, so I wanted to learn more about it. Embedded watermarks in text When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itself. You won’t see it, and it doesn’t change the meaning, quality,...
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