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In recent years, some new insights and research about the brain and mind have been making their way around the Internet and words like "aphantasia" have started being discussed on social media and elsewhere.

About a decade ago, I wrote a blog post titled "SmarterChild and Other AIM Bots" where I talked about some nostalgic memories from my early days with software development when I programmed my own chatbots that ran on AOL Instant Messenger.

These silly random holidays always have a way of sneaking up on me when I least expect it, and today (July 14) is apparently National Nude Day!

In the tech industry, a "Full Stack Software Engineer" is somebody who is single-handedly capable of writing all of the source code needed for an application (especially in the context of web applications).

I've been a software engineer for basically my whole life, at least ever since I first taught myself to write HTML code when I was 12 years old, and in the modern era when Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are commonplace, I of course have…

Over the past couple of weeks, I decided I would get serious again about learning how to program in Rust and I have ported my chatbot scripting language, RiveScript over to Rust.

Somebody had asked me about this recently, and I thought I must have already written a blog post about it before, but apparently I had not!

This may be a hot take, but in 2025 my favorite web browser is still (and has been for decades) Mozilla Firefox and I'll tell you why.

I had originally written this post on my NSFW blog back around May of this year.

A while back (February 2023) I built an open source webcam chat room for one of my side project websites.

I frequently have pretty vivid, detailed and crazy dreams and when I have a particularly interesting one, I write it down in my dream journal.

Anonymous asks: What is your favorite memory of Bot-Depot?

A discussion thread I got pulled into on Mastodon had me suddenly nostalgic for something we once had on the Internet, and which was really nice while it lasted: the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, or XMPP, or sometimes referred to by its orig…

One of the many things I get really interested in is the nature of "reality" or at least the conscious parts of it (e.g. my perception of reality).

So I haven't posted a good rant on my blog in quite some time - I had chilled out a lot in my older years, but I just have to tell this story about Safari and my struggles in getting it to work with my chat room I had built recently.

Cardell asks: So this is related to The Breath of the Wild save hacking.

I'm announcing my latest open source project: a WebRTC chat room with asynchronous video support that I'm calling BareRTC.

I have just released a new toy program on my website: Error Message Generator 2.0, or ErrorGen for short.

Is Zenmsg a virus?

NNN asks: What kind of music do you listen to?