2024, self-improvement, and habits
I'm not a big end-of-year/start-of-year post guy. But 2023 did become rather chaotic, and I want to start 2024 with some energy and discipline. So... how?
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Quotes and Thoughts
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...
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WordPress REST API with a Laravel Zero CLI and Tinkerwell
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 […]
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I’m using AI
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.
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Remembering
If we don't remember, we don't have empathy.
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The View from the Bottom of the Pile
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.
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FREE WEBSITES!! How I make small, side-project websites for free (pretty much)
I now have a process that gets me small, fast, side-project websites for virtually zero cost. Let's see how it works...
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The Electric Vehicle: What? and Why?
We recently bought an electric car. This post explains why we did this, what we purchased, and why we chose that car.
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What is intelligence anyway?
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 […]
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I’m tired of web dev
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.