Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWeb DevelopmentWordpress CodingPerformance & Optimization Optimization-A-Go-Go: WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with TransientsI suffer from that paradoxical form of laziness peculiar to computer geeks where I will save myself save myself 15 minutes of work on something by spending 4 hours creating… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 4, 2024Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7428 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inImage Gallery Posted inAI Generative Illustration Welcome To My Nightmare: Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art galleryAnother AI generative art project. I recently was experimenting with creating some work-themed images. I didn't come up with anything I could use on my FileMaker consulting website, but I… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 20, 2024Tags: Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7279 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureUrban Exploration Beneath Berkeley: UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban ExplorationBack around 2005-2006, as social media took off, I was a member of an urban exploration chat group, memory fails but it was probably something on Tribe or Friendster. Mentioning… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 15, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7083 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingWork Infrequently Asked Questions: What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week? -Jeannie F, Marin County, CA Thursday. Trust me, being self-employed I’ve… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7041 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingComedy & Society Infrequently Asked Questions: Why do people respect George Carlin?I have a serious question, and, dead serious, I’m not deliberately trying to provoke. Why do people respect George Carlin? -Brett F., Alberta Carlin was the observational comic who set… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7038 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingMusic Theory Infrequently Asked Questions: Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?Q. Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note? -Charlotte V., Seattle, WA Notes an octave apart are the same note because of the mechanics… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7024 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingProbability & Statistics Infrequently Asked Questions: Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?A.) Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? B.) What if 5 people each flipped a coin. If the first four all land on heads,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7013 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal EvidenceTravel & Adventure Local Color—Ghent, Belgium: How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In GhentBack in my salad days I once tricked the Belgian government into paying to fly me & two friends to give an arts lecture in Ghent under assumed names (long… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 1, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6867 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inImage Gallery Posted inFun With Scanners Digital Objets D’Art: Robyn Hitchcock fan club 50th Birthday CardRobyn Hitchcock used to have an email fan club that I was pretty active in (hence his name coming up a bunch of places on this site; if you're familiar… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6832 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureTravelogue Good Day at Black Rock: 27 Photos from Burning Man 1997Introduction, 2023:Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society and… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6797 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureUrban Exploration Beneath the Bay Area: Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Explorationsomewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6711 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureRural Exploration Subterranean Serendipity: UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6693 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & Adventure Back To The Garden: A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournalIn August 2018 my mom and I decided to take a road trip from my sister's home in an un-named southern city, where I was crashing for a few months,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 18, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9697 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inMusic Review I Like To Listen: “Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album reviewFinally giving a listen to the prerelease of old friend Dan Sonenberg’s return to solo singer-songwriting, "Peaks Island Ferry". Rather than set down & give him feedback after it’s over,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz November 1, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9294 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inFinance & InvestingIndicators & Algos Trading Tools: TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & ExperimentsHere's a collection of trading tools I wrote & shared on TradingView, a finance markets charting site, in their native Pine script. These were originally published on my old crypto… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 24, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6544 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inCryptocurrencyExcelFinance Simulations Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell Me: An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool SimulatorFor a few years I was in cryptocurrency trading. Eventually, this led me to the wild west of decentralized finance tokens ("DeFi"), an exciting area that I feel has strong… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 23, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6516 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: “The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”The radish is the noisy'st root, Its vocal tack beyond dispute, effusive in expounding truth, so talkative, this verbal fruit. In ages prior and aeons hence, have poets, lost in… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 22, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6465 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inTechnosociologyAI Issues Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!: About Sexism In The AI Images On This SiteA number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6322 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inImage Gallery Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated LyricsOuttakes Work-In-Progress Postview: Previsions of Johanna — Generative Art galleryAs I worked on my "Revisions Of Johanna" project, I generated a lot of images I really liked, but which didn't fit into the final project. I decided the best… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6226 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/4Posted inWriting Posted inMediaPropagandaManipulationPersuasion Watch Your Intelligence: Critical Reading of a Flawed Information SourceOct. 7, 2023 I had an interesting talk with my father yesterday. He had a 2-for-1 subscription offer to Mother Jones, and we got into a discussion when I told… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6198 | Embed link