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2025 jul 11 The Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin demo has gotten a lot of rough edges sanded off and is working well. I have also added an AI Policy page,…
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AI Success Story Images
These were some illustrations I whipped up trying to come up with a header image for an article I wrote on LinkedIn asking about people's real-life experiences with using AI…
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These are things things should ideally eventually happen.
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Go
Among my fascinations and frsutrations is go. This is going to be my page for organizing my thoughts on it as I learn. I get the sense that Go is…
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The Emperor's New Code: The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)
I've spent so much time fruitlessly trying to get LLMs (Large Language Model chatbots, commonly referred to generically as "AI") to actually help me solve coding problems that I've taken,…
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Word Salad: Vocabulary
As I run across words or phrases that I like, I add them here. Apotropaic magic (from Greek αποτρέπω, apotrépō 'to ward off') - protective magic, a type of magic…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Element Monsters
The #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme for March 1, 2025 was "Element Monsters". I went with radioactive elements: uranium, radium, plutonium, caesium, thorium, einsteinium, radon, and americium.
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Is That A Kosher Dill In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?: On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity
Note: This was composted in response to a #thursdaypoetrysociety challenge on LinkedIn to compose a poem in response to the prompt "my opinion on pickles". My opinion of pickles is…
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Saturday Monster Challenge—Love Monsters
On Saturday, Feb 15, 2025, the theme of LinkedIn's "Saturday Monster Challenge" was "Love Monsters". I apologize to anybody with delicate sensibilities offended by the inclusion of a few monster…
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Vocabulary
[could probably have a whole website section on words & language] This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing :…
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All Work And No Play Makes...: HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.
Some info about Mike's day job: certified Filemaker & Full-Stack Web development. Really you want to check out www.kupietz.com for that info.
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Hopes And Fears: Saturday Monster Challenge — “Hope Monsters”
Saturday Monster Challenge for Jan. 18, 2024. Comes a time when the monsters have eaten their fill of villagers and there’s no danger anymore, so now everybody can come out…
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So Much City, They Had To Give It A Second Gallery: Extra New York Images
Just a set of fun leftover from when I was working on a featured image for my Local Color: New York Stories, Which I only now realize are all about…
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In The Details: The Devil In Deco
A stylistic experiment inspired by vintage art photography.
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Beware The Fog: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was "Fog Monsters". .
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Life On Mars?: The Red Day
2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that…
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Some monsters have all the luck: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters
This week's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn is Lucky Charm Monsters. I always say, you can tell the lucky charm monsters, because they're the ones hanging out with the people winning at…
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Isn't She Pretty: #WrappedInPink — Pale Pink
Submission for the Mood Board and Fashion categories of the Wrapped In Pink AI generative art competition, Dec 2024.
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season's geekings: Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights
Strung across this page are pure CSS interactive Christmas lights. You can slowly move your mouse across them to jostle them and they're move, all without any javascript. The twisty…
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Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
IMPORTANT UPDATE, July 3, 2025: Pending signing of the new tax bill tomorrow, it appears the below information may finally be obsolete. The tax bill passed by Congress today quietly…
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Hair Of The Dog: Interlude Tonsorial
Exqueeze me whilst I sing the tale of facial hair gone tough as nails. When short, it chafes, when long it scares! Crepusculating facial hairs portend the chafed skin one…
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Shine, Shine, Shine: You Light Up My Life
These people are lit, yo.
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Insert Clever phrase here: Artificial Stupidity thoughts & references
I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and…
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god is in the details: Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements
Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I'm a big fan of <details class="detailsClassName"><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements. For those unfamiliar, that's…
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Think... Nah, Not Gonna Say It: Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink
They've been doing this "#WrappedInPink Challenge" generative art meme on LinkedIn. Here's just a preview of studies of some things I've been working on for it. Not entirely sure what…
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Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique
About This GalleryThis gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024. Being trained on a society's art, there are…
