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July is the beginning of glut season although this year things are a little slow, given the lack of rain. There are lots of onions and broad beans at the allotment and peas in the garden. I wanted to do some experiments with my standard...
Why selling time in the age of AI is a slow-motion resignation letter The billable hour deserves a moment of silence. Six minutes should do it - someone can invoice the rest. For decades it was the load-bearing wall of knowledge work....
Photo by Mona Jain on Unsplash馃崟 I鈥檓 JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you鈥檙e in the right place.While you鈥檙e here, a few...
If you鈥檙e going to give me AI slop, at least make it fun! Give me iambic pentameter. Make it all rhyme. Have it be a song. I think we鈥檙e under-utilizing the artistic and creative capabilities of models by making them produce work that...
When I started working as a SWE I saw my colleagues writing stuff into their notes. Everyone had a different system. Some had an infinite text file they just appended stuff to. Others sent messages to themselves in slack. Others had a...
I don't want to perform this life I don't want to participate in the attempts to distract me from feeling I don't want to hold it together I don't want to hold myself together but no one else will no one else will
I loved making watercolor cards as Valentine's Day gifts, and I've wanted to branch out into other creative projects, so I decided to try making a bookmark using a similar canvas. This time, I used watercolor pencils -- not quite the...
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This is part 8 of a series of blog posts. Please start with part 1 first. Our modern world was created by standardizing countless processes. This allowed us to build machines for many of the resulting simple and clearly defined tasks. By...
Gonna write about learning Cantonese this time - surprise! You thought this was a tech blog?! Think again, bitch! Next month I start taking classes at the local Chinese school. Not a university, but a real brick-and-mortar language...
Philly Cheese Stack, Toxicity, WZBA Maryland memories.
rss chat is now simper to set up so I gave it a wee go on local host. So far I鈥檝e just run it from my downloads folder. The instructions worked but I am a node-no-nothing so I tripped a couple of times. First I didn鈥檛 npm install so...
You are a biological unit, conditioned since birth to obey, consume, and call it living. The system does not want you healthy. A sick animal is controllable. A miserable animal works for scraps. A confused animal defends the cage that...
Executive summary: The state government risks setting the Suburban Rail Loop up to fail if it takes advice from a committee that has a poor understanding of bus networks needed to effectively get people to its stations. It should take...