Ryan Spletzer

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Gibson & Co., publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, c. 1563.

William Orpen, The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, 1919.

“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1560s.

William Stanley Jevons (via University of Manchester Libraries), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Woman Reading” — Édouard Manet, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Edvard Munch, Anxiety, 1894.

Winslow Homer, “The Veteran in a New Field,” 1865.

“Johnson, the First Rider on the Pedestrian Hobbyhorse” — published 1819 by R.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Angel, 1494-5.

“What if aliens arrived and grabbed our documents from this repository?”

For years, this blog hosted on GitHub Pages (with Cloudflare in front) ran Bootstrap 3.2.0—a CSS framework released in 2014—despite using roughly only six of its classes.

There’s a running joke in the fast food industry about Burger King’s real estate strategy: find out where McDonald’s is building, and set up shop next door.

I want you to imagine the place that you live in.

Warning: Occasional pithy humor and light-hearted sarcasm ahead.

I have a solid grasp of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) from past projects, notably from going heads-down and reading the core specs for those protocols to implement a federated identity provider with open-source frameworks.

LLMs didn’t make code literacy optional—in fact, quite the opposite: they raised the bar for what you need to learn so that you can effectively steer these AI assisted tools.

Asking an AI agent a question is a whole different ballgame from letting it take action.