The Autodidacts

In computing, honeypots attract bad actors into interacting with a system.

Yes Music in the Amphitheater, 1970 by Ed Uthman Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends.

I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words or paragraphs within a webpage.

Once upon a time, I ran across an experimental project called TabFS, which mounts browser tabs as a filesystem.

[ In Iteration, I wrote about the mistake of demanding painting lessons from van Gogh.

The first thing I wrote when I started this essay was, "Written 2026-09-01."

Despite being a notorious AI skeptic, when Qwen3.8-27B came out, I spent several afternoons trying to get it to run on a 16gb Nvidia card with halfway decent results.

I like building things: it makes me happy.

Note: this post is part of #100DaysToOffload, a challenge to publish 100 posts in 365 days.

A lot of thought and talk goes into how good things are, when they’re new, and the review industry is big business.

Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant.

Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful.

We’ve been distracted these past few months by getting certified as wildland firefighters, learning to drive excavators, competing in running races, and suffering from technological breakdowns.

Consider the dishwasher.

I have been informed by the internet that using Ollama is passé.

Every one’s talking about their agents.

Sometimes people say goodnight by saying, see you in the morning, if that’s expected.

The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow.

Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting.