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Ghost (and back again)

After years of running static sites, I had a brief flirtation with a hosted service.

Full Circle

Wanting more interactivity on my blog, even at a minimal level, has made static site generators more trouble than I want to deal with.

AI Coding (II)

A lot of folks are asking if AI makes developers more efficient, but we'd have to know how to measure efficiency first.

AI Coding (I)

Giving the AI coding thing "the old college try," not that I tried that much in college.

The question of purity tests

When people argue about "purity tests" in politics, it’s to dodge accepting uncomfortable compromises.

We’re outsourcing to AI

What happens when a business starts outsourcing the busy-work? Is that even useful? Or is it just another cash drain?

The blog post image conundrum

I’m always having a debate with myself about how to handle images for blog posts — and whether they need images at all.

Static no longer

I've gone and done it. I took my nice, static site and turned it dynamic. Wow, what a headache.

Should we even call it AI?

Words matter, but sometimes more to rhetorical approaches than to any real understanding.

On Zombies

Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.

Process Matters

Writing notes by hand and rephrasing them in my own words is more valuable to me than relying on AI tools.

I Like JavaScript

Regardless of what you think about it, JavaScript is a crucial part of the platform.

Why scrum fails

Scrum seems like it works. I've seen it work; it's working for me now. Why do so many people think it's a failure?

A Fairy-Tale about Capitalism

A story that illustrates what we were all told about capitalism, and most of us still feel to be true. Even if we know better.