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State of AI code assist tools and what I’d recommend in 2025 August
Listed roughly (not exactly) in order from seeming to target least-tech-familiar to most-tech-familiar audiences: No / low-code: Replit and Lovable Good for someone who doesn’t/can’t code at all yet to prototype something pretty impressively considering lack of coding experience. Wouldn’t recommend it for anything you plan on using in production. Haven’t touched them myself, only…
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Initial impressions of MIT paper: Your Brain on ChatGPT
There’s a paper in pre-print from MIT called “Your Brain on ChatGPT” making the rounds that I’ve heard mentioned by enough friends or in enough places online that I wanted to blog a few of my initial impressions & thoughts. For starters, this isn’t merely preliminary in the sense of “the paper is still in…
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Morning routine listed & explained
The list’s best-proven items: Principles: I find it easier to get good sleep quality, make effective use of each day, and get myself out of bed & doing things reasonably-efficiently (instead of dragging my feet or slapping the snooze button repeatedly) if I: Avoid the phone or computer until the whole morning routine is done.…
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How Systems Engineering differs from IT Systems Administration
I sometimes get asked about my Masters in Systems Engineering, usually by people who expect it to be more like network administration or similar IT work. I mean, I certainly could be doing IT; it’s how I paid for my undergrad. But compared to the rest of my career experience, that was long enough ago on simpler…
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Rock Band instruments
Am planning on trading these away soon and the messaging system of the trade site in question doesn’t support attachments, but it does support linking to URLs, so might as well host them here.
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Custom drawstring bags for Eclipse player races
I like tabletop gaming as much as videogaming, and but one of the biggest blockers behind being able to play the more in-depth ones I own (especially the most weighty in my collection, Eclipse) is time spent trying to teach or look up rule minutiae. And aside from knowing the rules, I also don’t expect…
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Solder your Microsoft Wireless Gaming Receiver to fix it when Device Manager stops recognizing it.
You’ve tried everything on http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-other-devices/connections/xbox-360-wireless-gaming-receiver-windows . You’ve rebooted your machine, tried every USB port and an independently-powered USB hub, you’ve put fresh batteries in your controller, you’ve uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, you’ve tried some other forum posters’ descriptions of “clean booting” or unplugging every other USB device and all manner of other last-ditch voodoo, and you…
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Making your fire spinner look good (or ugly)
One of the first things I had to get over when shooting fire spinners (or having photos taken of me fire spinning) was that no matter how a shot’s taken, there’s a nonzero chance the subject is going to look…odd. They might look angry and frustrated, they might look different than how I normally remember…
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Easiest way I’ve found to learn to shoot fire
I haven’t got a ton of experience under my belt photographing people literally playing with fire, but there’s one type that has been unquestionably the easiest so far: fire breathers. Specifically plural, because individual breathers are about as unpredictable (certainly fun to watch and get shots of, but unpredictable) as anyone else with a prop…
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Hello world!
Site’s been down for a bit while transitioning to a better host. Apologies if you’ve been looking for any of the content here on the WordPress installation; I was placing higher priority on zero downtime for mail instead. Time to go about fixing broken images and links and such… This also seems like a good…