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Voting needs to be accessible to everyone, but voters should take the responsibility to make an informed choice, otherwise they should skip the ballot box.

Exploring the Standard.site lexicon and integrating it into my hugo blog.

I have been building a time zone database library which uses the IANA Time Zone Database for the gleam programming language.

From determining who gets a job interview to who receives critical healthcare, opaque computational algorithms are increasingly making life-altering decisions about us, not with us.

In yesterday’s post I wrote about how I thought Model Context Protocol (MCP) was one of the most interesting aspects of the current AI hype.

In an earlier post I wrote a little about Markov chains and large language models.

As usual the holidays really started to take off and I didn’t take time to work on updates.

Advent of Code day 11 was an example of a problem which gets exponentially harder as you do more iterations.

I thought Day 6 of Advent of Code was a pretty interesting problem.

The last few days of Advent of Code have been fairly straightforward and I have not really used any new language features of Gleam.

It’s time once again for Advent of Code.

I used Bluesky’s Jetstream and gleam to resurrect and old project I made for twitter.

It looks like Bluesky is moving ahead with its promise to allow self-hosting.

I am no fan of the current generative AI frenzy.

The latest tech fad appears to be generative AI and ChatGPT in particular.

A while ago I deployed this blog to Fly.io as a small exercise to gain some experience with the platform, but this is just a static blog that can be deployed on any static hosting site.

As twitter continues its tumultuous path under Musk’s leadership, many people have been moving to federated social networks such as mastodon or other ActivityPub federated sites.

I am working on an analog electronics project.

I’ve been obsessively checking the Washington Post Coronavirus Map to see how my state is doing, and to try to evaluate when it would be safe for the kids to return to school.

In early April a couple of articles were published stressing the need for COBOL programmers to once again come forward to use their skills to get us through a crisis of aging infrastructure.

It used to annoy me when people talked about going online as something separate from the “real world.”

Whispers in the Dark 2: A real-time look at the gestalt of the internet as seen through posts on the Bluesky social network.

When I was younger I would focus on a program for all day and into the evening.

In my previous post I discussed Google Cloud Run as a docker-based PaaS.

One of the major announcements at Google Cloud Next this year was Cloud Run, which Google describes as “containers meet serverless.”

In 2011, as I started programming more and becoming increasingly frustrated with academia, I started a blog called Idol Star Astronomer.

I’m Christopher De Vries.