Creativity, curiosity, and code
There's a lot going on right now and I've been having a lot of thoughts about what is going on. In some cases I think I've expressed these thoughts well. In other cases, other people have expressed things that have helped me. Here are some quotes and thoughts...
Today I decided to start work on a silly new thing. It will involve CLI commands, so I went for Laravel Zero. I needed to use the WordPress REST API. I figured someone must have written a Laravel HTTP client wrapper for this and Rick West delivered for me there! But then I wanted to […]
This AI tech is amazing. And works so well when aiding humans rather than replacing them. But gosh I can see how it breaks the web.
If we don't remember, we don't have empathy.
It seems upside-down, but sometimes when you're at the bottom of the pile, you can see a whole load more looking back up! And there's opportunities for programmers here.
I now have a process that gets me small, fast, side-project websites for virtually zero cost. Let's see how it works...
We recently bought an electric car. This post explains why we did this, what we purchased, and why we chose that car.
This episode of This American Life is amazing. It has several parts and looks at artificial intelligence from a number of different creative angles. There’s fascinating stories of how people become convinced of the “intelligence” of ChatGPT. There’s a short story that reverses the roles and tries to see how intelligent machines might question the […]
The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.
The experimental "command center" is coming to WordPress core. What do I think of it? And what does it mean for my own "command palette" product, Turbo Admin?