Big ideas require a big piece of paper. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
— The person who did, in fact, make this rule.
Et Cetera
“Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, ‘twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed.
2024 App Defaults
As we head out of 2024, these are the apps I’m using. (Computing) Bookmarks: Raindrop (Computing) Browser: Firefox (Computing) Calendar: Apple Calendar (Computing) Chat: Beeper (Discord + Signal) (Computing) Cloud Storage: iCloud Drive (Computing) Passwords: 1Password (Computing) Photo Management: Apple Photos (eMail) Mail Client: Apple Mail (eMail) Mail Server: Fastmail (Entertainment) Media Player: Infuse Pro (Entertainment) Music: Apple Music, Radio Paradise, a growing collection of physical media (Entertainment) Podcasts: Pocket Casts (Finance) Budgeting: YNAB (Health) Body Tracking: Whoop (Health) Meal Planning: Plan To Eat (Health) Workout Tracking: Gentler Streak (Reading) Book Tracking: Hardcover (Reading) eBook Management: Calibre (Reading) eReader: Kobo Sage (Reading) Read It Later: Readwise Reader (Reading) RSS: The Old Reader + NetNewsWire (Social) Contacts: Apple Contacts (Travel) Flight Tracking: Flighty (Travel) Trip Planning: Tripsy (Writing) Blogging: Micro.
On Generative AI
I would describe myself as “cautiously optimistic” about generative AI. LLMs are clearly capable of doing some useful things. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise at this point probably sounds a lot like they’re trying to argue the sky isn’t blue or the moon isn’t cheese. For a little background, I first heard about GPT-2 back when it came out, a couple of years before ChatGPT hit the world stage, and some of the smartest nerds I know were marveling at the fact that you could get it to play chess competently.
Thinking out loud about the iPad
I have owned several iPads, and the role of the iPad in my life has changed over the years. With today’s announcement of the new iPad mini, I think it’s time to reevaluate which iPad(s) I need, and potentially start the trade-in process. Question #1: What do I actually use my iPad for today? I have an iPad mini. I bought it around the time my kindle kicked the bucket, and my intention was to use it mainly as a reading device.
From the journals of St. Rev. Dr. McPunch, Dweller, Vault 76 “Reclamation day” my entire ass. The vault has everything we need, and I’ve spent most of my life in it! Everyone else was in a hurry to get out and see the world. I’ll tell you what you’ll see: a fat lot of nothing. How could there be anything to see? Twenty years isn’t nearly enough time to clear the rads.
Things I have recently discovered ChatGPT is good at: jira templates confluence templates pictures of disturbingly happy fruit philosophical discussions about Zeno’s paradox as applied to disturbingly happy fruit Things I have recently discovered ChatGPT is not good at: pictures of mothman pictures of mothman at a pool party pictures of mothman at a pool party with other cryptids
My curse is being incredibly picky about UI and UX but not being very good at implementing either.
Whether I live here for six months or six years, I’ve decided that I am not holding my house in escrow for the future owners. There are plenty of milquetoast plain white interior designs on the market, if they really care they’ll buy one of those. My walls shall have opinions.
My ideal April 1st is one where at no point do I see anything related to “April Fools.” I realize this makes me sound like a buzzkill No-Funsington-Bear. I promise I’m not usually. What I am is exhausted of tricks, pranks, and other japery in poor spirit, poor execution, and poor intention. We already live in a world where it’s rational to trust very little of what gets posted to the Internet.
The important thing is that dreamers are still out there trying to build something new. There’s nothing the tech giants could think up this fiscal biennium that will excite me half as much as whatever’s going on over on Neocities this week.
Do the children know of bash.org?
Who cries for bloodninja’s robe and wizard hat?
Who sings the song of hunter2?
I finished Roots of Pacha at a little over 50 hours of total play time. I still wouldn’t recommend it. “But random internet wizard, what would you recommend?” I hear you cry. Contrariwise’s Definitive and Not At All Biased Guide to Cozy Sim Games Not Sweaty 1) Stardew Valley I’ve played Stardew all the way through to completion twice. I’ll probably play it again someday. Many of its best ideas are now fully dispersed into the cozy sim game ecosystem, but few games really do it as thoroughly and as well.
Just discovered home.omg.lol which I don’t think I have a use case for, but it’s pretty cool and you should take a look.