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About ten years ago, I looked at the Ghost blogging platform that originally powered this website and asked myself why.

Throughout my career, I’ve had various side roles related to technical writing: in addition to doing the writing itself, I’ve built various writing and documentation tools and written a handful of style guides and how-tos.

Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this game from the developer.

Today marks the public release of Riverbucket, a self-hostable, open-source web application for following blogs and saving bookmarks.

Google’s Nano Banana / Gemini Image family of image generation models are some of the most powerful tools for generating complex and precise AI images.

As of today, I’ve been writing this blog for twelve years.

A few months ago, I wrote about the deep weirdness of LLM technology, and how we’re all still learning how to approach its outputs.

Over a decade ago, I had an Ubuntu install with a broken Unity desktop environment.

Most computer keyboards have a character key that produces this symbol: -.

# I Over the past three years, services powered by large-language models have been rapidly adopted by consumers and businesses alike.

Last month, I gave a talk on the exploitation of insecure Firebase applications with my Baserunner tool at BSides Joburg.

As I am incapable of entering a used bookstore without purchasing something, I recently picked up a second-hand copy of RL Stine’s 2012 novel Red Rain.

Last year I celebrated this blog’s tenth anniversary, so this year’s retrospective post marks eleven.

I ended my last post about AI image generation on the following note: ↗ DALL-E 3’s ability to create pleasant, mostly coherent images with plenty of fine detail from text prompts alone makes many of the Stable Diffusion techniques above feel like kludgey…

Advent of Code is a yearly programming event.