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it's been a couple years. what's new?

i promised myself i would start making these blog posts in a timely matter so i wouldn't have to lump them together. now it's two days one day until i ship out for Anthrocon, so i'm right back to throwing this together at the last minute.

at this rate i'm going to have to start batching them by year in order to get these blog posts out "in time"... another year, another busy con schedule!

pro tip: if you're doing cons back to back, grab energy drinks. after FWA, i had promised myself i was only going to do at most one big con a year. after all, plane tickets and hotel rooms are expensive. either i need to get a sizeable group to room with,…

recently a friend showed me Oasis, a playable AI video model based off of Minecraft. its marketing material touts it as capable of "[understanding] complex game mechanics, such as building, lighting physics, inventory management, object understanding, and…

i recently attented FWA 2025 -- my first con ever!

i got dragged into a tech conference for work. i retained my sanity by live-tweeting it out to some of my coworkers and friends on Discord. below are clipped highlights from that stream of messages, pseudonymized and edited for clarity. please enjoy. ebu…

a website i used and really liked called cohost recently shut down. statistically, you already come from there and so you know what the deal is, but for the uninitiated: cohost was a Tumblr-like social media platform that strived to reduce or outright rem…

we've all been on the """AI""" hype train for quite some time now, and gods has the ride been bumpy. i slap """AI""" in scare quotes here, not because it's inaccurate or misleading, but because the term itself is a bit meaningless. the longer all this goes

Disk encryption wasn't worth the hassle of entering a password every boot, so I went about disabling it.

Echo is a 18+ horror visual novel that I've recently had the opportunity to play and think about.

There is a common misconception about "Luddites" that I feel is particularly applicable to the discourse on AI art.

I started switching over to Colemak instead of QWERTY for typing.

I have been using Daylio, a mood tracking app, for some 1400 days, or nearly four years, logging my mood and activities each day.

I use a wide variety of software on a daily basis, and while I can't recommend all of it for everyone, I can tell you why I use what I use.