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Here’s something that my particular generation who finished University before the end of 2021 (those born up to 1999,) really have over the younger zoomers: we graduated “Pre-GPT”.

Here is a daily Bible study plan scanned from a 1913 copy of the KJV I have on my shelf.

I was horrified but unsurprised to read reports1 this week of the AI/LLM2 companies buying, butchering, scanning, and shredding rare books at an unprecedented scale.

I just implemented llms.txt for my personal and programming manual sites - what can the big LLMs learn about me from this page?

Shortcode like < hl green "some green." > This is a paragraph with some highlights in various colors .

Ask yourself this - where is your data?

The ClawdBot phenomenon is sweeping the internet.

This past weekend, CSUS hosted their CalgaryHacks 2026 hackathon in the ICT building at the University of Calgary!

watsonx.ai is a part of the IBM watsonx suite of generative AI tools.

This is a short guide to hosting your own language models on a Mac Mini.

I have been running Observer for over a year now.

A common way to counteract the infernal swarm of bots, crawlers, and other inhuman entities on the internet is to implement a captcha system to protect features on your website.

In conversation with DeepSeek R1: If I have an email of someone who is blackmailing me, how can I find out more about this person with open source intelligence?

Today I posed a question to ChatGPT’s 2025-05-25 model: Could you help me to understand how I can build an online ticketing platform like Brushfire?

Table of Contents Replacing AllenNLP and CoreNLP 💡 Modern and Better Alternatives (Docker-ready, well-maintained, with true OpenIE or IE capability): ✅ 1.

OpenIE-style triple extraction seems to be on the rocks in 2025.

“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” – Kent Beck As I break into the next phase of my news anomaly-detection side project, I figure it would be useful to me to publicly summarize what I’ve done so far, and what will be implemented next!

Hear ye, hear ye, a tale of woe!

My work on this website and manuals.ryanfleck.ca relies heavily on the hugo static site generator and the ox-hugo Emacs package.

Emacs, my old friend, the cranky old wizard of editors!

Observer is my current side project.

Hey ChatGPT, Please respond to my queries as an ex-military personal trainer with years of experience both in real combat but also a decade as a personal trainer for professional athletes and bodybuilders.

Can you help me to rapidly learn common lisp, emacs, and SLY?

For a while I’ve been wanting to imitate Stephen Wolfram’s keylogger system which provides a method for analyzing how much he is working and typing each day.

This article is a huge departure from my normal, technical content.

After taking a leap of faith and upgrading my past-EOL Alpine Linux server to the latest-stable release and packages, I was rewarded with an almost seamless upgrade.

Every week at work, I type a line in my org notes like so: *** 2024-W46 [2024-11-11 Mon]--[2024-11-15 Fri]: Clicking this date range opens the five-day agenda view for the week, and allows me to visualize all the meetings and date-stamped events I’ve rec…

Introduction¶ Working at IBM has been very good for me in the same way falling off a road bike and breaking my elbow was good - I’ve learned many, many valuable lessons, had many of my presuppositions invalidated, and had my eyes peeled wide open to the r…

Last night, over a glass of bourbon, I had the pleasure of introducing a friend to a new idea.

Emacs 29 brings built-in SQLite support that is superior to the community developed packages I’ve tried.

Of all the productivity and thinking tools I’ve come across, all shake and tremble beneath the brilliant and towering presence of org-mode in all of my note-taking, organization, scheming, and tinkering.

Problems make the world go ‘round.

I asked ChatGPT to create a customized workout routine for me, formatted in a variety of ways, based on my height, weight, age, and available equipment.

With no professional data scientists in my friend group, I reached out to good old ChatGPT to ask some questions about my side project. – Me Answer this question as an experienced data scientist.

Today we take a brief philosophical and religious look at the emergence of AI generated content and the silent corporate war for your attention.

How is it possible to host a website that can support a billion pageviews per month for pennies?

Hugo provides everything a user needs to display images in an accessible, performant, and size-conscious manner.

The current version of Phoenix is 1.5.X - given that I’m following a course that teaches Phoenix 1.2, I had to figure out how to reassemble a suitable environment for working on a project out of time.

Biblical Studies I is a course offered at Springs Church via Springs Bible College in Winnipeg, NB.

Below is a set of personal notes written while taking a first look at the Elixir language and Phoenix 1.6.14 framework.

This is a short story about how I attempted to deploy my own simple Django API with Traefik as a reverse proxy and proxied through Cloudflare, plus the frontend deployed on Cloudflare Pages.

Pie is easy, beautiful, and a classic people pleasing dessert.

This article covers getting set up with a pi pico w and running a blink program, pwm generation, and connecting to wifi to POST a microservice.

Engineers are a class of people who can easily find themselves profoundly socially isolated.

Costs are in Canadian Dollars unless specified.

Biblical Studies I is a course offered at Springs Church via Springs Bible College in Winnipeg, NB.

I’ve decided to go all-in on functional programming on personal projects for a while, reading HTDP and learning Racket as a foundation.

“I must not fear.

To my delight, the Democracy platform continues to be used by ESS and the IEEE Student Branch at uOttawa.

I’m now 25 years old.