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.
Category: Thoughts
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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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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.
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A 5 Minute Window: What?
Yesterday I posted a nearly-silent video, with just some music, about PHP arrays and objects. "That was weird", I hear you say. Yeah. Maybe.
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Is Turbo Admin for sale?
One of the reasons I keep on with Turbo Admin is that I’ve had some major validation of the idea in the form of investment offers and even – no, I can’t believe it either – offers to buy it! I’ve been really encouraged by these offers. Here’s my thoughts on the idea of selling […]
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You can’t do ANYTHING without an app!
If you follow me on socials, you might think that I really didn’t enjoy my holiday… But it’s not really true. We had a great time. I think that, as I relax and unwind, and the adrenaline that’s been keeping everything at bay dissipates, and the major life stuff is put aside, things come crashing […]
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Coding for fun
Back at the end of 2020, Jhey Tompkins wrote an excellent article titled “Playfulness In Code: Supercharge Your Learning By Having Fun“. I loved this article and though the examples in it were more visually playful than technologically playful (and yes, HTML and CSS are technological – I just couldn’t find a better way to […]
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caniphp.com – thoughts on launching something actually vaguely popular!
Isn't it ridiculous? You spend years trying to make something that takes off in a big kinda way. You try all sorts of complicated things. And then, one day, you turn a little note you have lying around into a midly-interactive single web page and it takes off like nothing else before!