realfiction by Frank Quednau

Apple OSX at some point got this idiotic suggested emojis feature which falls exactly into this category of UX labelled "meant to be helpful, doing the opposite".

This cartoon by Tom Toro is an absolute classic, and it really keeps growing on you.

I have seen this quote go round here & there, and I simply want to recreate what appears to be a comment from Frank Wilhoit on a post from 2018, just in case it goes away for whatever reason (the blog I'm linking to is similarly old as mine, but we should…

<Info icon={false} header="Clarifying my viewpoint on LLMs"> I sort of sit in a bubble on Mastodon where most people are heavily opposed to the current incarnation of AI: LLM-based technology.

I saw today in a post that Carl Sagan's Cosmos has been made available on archive.org.

I am not ready yet to form coherent thoughts on AI, or rather, the subject has an almost unfortunate depth as companies with a near-infinite war chest are pouring billions upon billions of cash into LLMs to make the subject completely unavoidable in tech,…

<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Time to look at what may be by far the most exotic technology choice in ahead: The use of a graph database in the form of the gremlin endpoint provided by C…

<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Let's take a short break from looking at service replacements and marvel at the fun that is having good OpenTelemetry data.

<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Time to look at the second messaging pattern.

<TopicToc title="Cloud agnostic series" topicId="azure-ahead" active={frontmatter.title} closed /> Sending messages between processes is an ubiquitous pattern that has been in use for many decades - as such, the available alternatives are plenty.