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Customization Is King: KupieTools Custom WordPress Plugins Overview

Pardon My Placeholder! This page is a placeholder listing my various Github repos containing my custom WordPress plugin work, loosely branded as "KupieTools", as I work on more detailed pages…
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Friend-Of-A-Friend “Chart Art” Project

This is a placeholder to remind me to write about this project. This was what I called "chart art". These are social network graphs created by querying a database of…
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Latest News — What’s Up With The Site & Mike

Read All About It: Latest News — What’s Up With The Site & Mike

2025 Nov 9 New Blog feature: This site was originally intended as a static showcase of my creative art, but for while now I've considered adding more social-media-like features to…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Interesting Leftovers & Bonus Galleries
AI Success Story Images

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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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 Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)

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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Vocabulary list featured image

Word Salad: Vocabulary List

An unsorted list of words or phrases that I like. Aposiopesis (pron.: /ˌæpəsaɪ.əˈpiːsɪs/; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") - a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Element Monsters

#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.
Writing » I Can't Believe It's Not Poetry!
On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity

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…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
Saturday Monster Challenge—Love Monsters

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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HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.

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.
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
Saturday Monster Challenge — “Hope Monsters”

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…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Interesting Leftovers & Bonus Galleries
Extra New York Images

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…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters

Beware The Fog: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters

#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was "Fog Monsters". .
Visual Art » Adventure Photojournals
The Red Day

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…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters

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…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
#WrappedInPink — Pale Pink

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.
Code & Algorithms » Demo & Live Tool Playground
Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights

season's geekings: Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights

Strung across the very top of 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…
Writing » Topical Writing
How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash

Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash

Note, Sep. 2024: I want to point something out: I’ve given few references here besides a couple of Google search results I happen to like. This page gives my current…
Writing » I Can't Believe It's Not Poetry!
Interlude Tonsorial

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…