Stray Thought

Today was a very sad day.

If you think back to a time before the fresher horrors that have made up the start of 2026, you may remember when Twitter’s resident chatbot, Grok, spent a few weeks creating millions of nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes, including some depicting childre…

Reflections on Vibe Coding I spent some time toward the end of last year experimenting with Claude Code, building a little project that I may still finish and release.

With another year of tabletop gaming behind me, it’s time to look back on my 2025 at the game table.

I participated in Advent of Code for the second time this year.

The Best Video on Board Game Boxes You’ll See This Year The main link I wanted to share this week is Amabel Holland’s latest video contemplation of board game boxes.

This is the latest in an unintentional series I’m apparently doing in which I write about topics related to the contemporary debate over the use, usefulness, impact, and harms of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) inspired by weeks-old podcasts.

I’ve got a lot going on for this holiday week, even before I caught whatever bug laid me low for the past 24 hours, so for links I offer a few entertaining videos: two older songs and one wild compilation.

I was out for a run not far from the house when I fell.

Paged Out!