I’m a software engineer, TTRPG nerd, open-source tinkerer, and occasional writer. This is where I share what I’m building, learning, and thinking about (since 2006, for better or worse).
A Conversation with Bard
A sober conversation about AI and jobs with Google’s brand new chat AI, Bard, turns into a bit of a mess at the end. I have some experience using ChatGPT but only got access to Bard today. I thought I’d record this to perhaps compare to interactions in the future.
Read all 3,363 wordsIntel Arc A770: One Month In
In building a PC mostly as a workstation, my choice of a GPU came as more of a secondary choice. My thought process was: sure, I’ll play some games every once in a while, but really, this is my work machine. It needs to do workstation stuff and not much more.
Read all 710 wordsmkdocs-alias-plugin 0.5.0 Release
The latest version, v0.5.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here. This new version adds the ability to use the use_relative_link config flag, which causes the plugin to generate relative links to the aliased document rather than absolute ones. This flag is useful for those who host their wikis in subdirectories.
mkdocs-alias-plugin is an MkDocs plugin allowing links to your pages using a custom alias such as [[my-alias]] or [[my-alias|My Title]].
Call Me By Your Name Review
Warning: spoilers
When I was about ten pages into Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, I thought this would be a book I couldn’t finish. The book’s narrator is its main character, a seventeen year old boy named Elio who lives with his parents in Italy. He is intelligent, shy, studious, and has a raging hormone-driven desire for Oliver, a twenty-four-year-old American houseguest of his parents. But Elio is a brat and seems to sabotage himself with every step along the way.
Read all 684 wordsThe Drawing of the Three Review
Note: This is a spoiler-free reflection.
Ever since I heard of the Dark Tower series, I’ve wanted to dig into it. I was practically raised on Stephen King novels but never felt ready to immerse myself in this series. Too daunting of a task. When I read The Gunslinger back in October of 2013, I liked it, but not enough to hook me. Ten years later, I decided to give the second book a shot, and things changed.
Read all 275 wordsHead Shot the Rot Intro
I’m running a Pathfinder 2 one-shot for my group called Head Shot the Rot. I noticed that the adventure didn’t have an intro blurb, so feel free to use the one I wrote below if it works for you.
Read all 165 wordsWelp
This weekend I took the time to find all of my ancient blog posts from various now-defunct blogs and stick them here. Finally, all of my failed projects are collected in one place!
Read all 194 wordsLearning to Type
One day in the early nineties when I was around eight or nine years old, my dad came home with two mysteriously acquired computers. Living in a tiny Dutch country town of about 1500 inhabitants, I wasn’t exposed to much in the way of high-tech, so this all felt very special and a bit magical. I had seen a computer before at school and on TV, but never actually used any, so this was all very exciting. I loved the way these machines looked: one was massive and square, a Commodore PET model 4016, the other rounded and much smaller (this may have been a simple dumb terminal like a Lear Siegler ADM-3A, I don’t remember).
Read all 1,252 wordsHow to Unlike All Liked Tweets
Happy New Year! So you want to delete everything you’ve ever liked on Twitter?
Open up your browser’s developer console and paste this one-liner:
Read all 74 wordsHello Again, Macbook
Well, that didn’t take too long.
If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been trying to use Linux for my local development purposes on an Intel NUC (as well as a Lenovo laptop). I have to say, I still love the NUC and am going to find another use for it somehow, I’m just not sure what yet. However, Linux was somewhat of a disaster for me.
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