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During late spring the rose myrtle turns up in bloom both inside Taipei and through the hills around it.

I found this little weevil plodding along a weather-worn handrail on trail in Neihu, a district in Taipei.

It has been some 20 years since I last read the Bible.

At the current juncture, where the internet is still open enough to be searched by agents, and models have minimized many of the issues of earlier versions, it feels like we’re kind of in a sweet spot between the old and new web.

I’ve been working on a project which generates podcasts for learning specific grammar topics in Mandarin.

I recently finished Light Eaters: The New Science of Plant Intelligence which was an interesting look at some of the recent, and recently revived, research into how plants interact with one another and with the world at large.

Non-fiction Would recommend Nature Underfoot by John Hainze This was a delightful and detailed look at a handful of creatures, some of which we might refer to as invasive.

I found this slightly-worse-for-wear little one resting on a prehistoric-sized elephant ear (colocasia) plant.

This is the first year I’ve done this, and I only started recording mid-way through year.

The plum rain, heavy throughout the morning, now lingered, tapping an idle rhythm on the rusted metal awnings that hang like so much tetanus over Taipei’s sidewalks.

When my wife and I look for a new place to eat, we’ll search through an app, sort by rating, and read a few reviews.

Introduction This is part of a series where I’m working towards building a game from scratch using Rust.

Introduction This is part of a series where I’m working towards building a game from scratch.

Disclaimer: This is partially based on the requirements of Coursera’s AWS Solution Architect’s course and the exam itself.

Taipei wears its flaws on the outside; on the weather-worn tile facades, dilapidated signage and the collections of miscellaneous things that often crowd entrances and walkways. × function openModal(src, id) { console.log("lfsdfasdklfjaASdfasdf", id); doc…

Disclaimer: This is partially based on the requirements of Coursera’s AWS Solution Architect’s course and the exam itself.

Introduction You can find the repo for this series here.

Introduction If all you want is the code, then head over to the repo.

SvelteKit (Svelte 5) and Supabase Just get the code.

Introduction If all you want is the code, then head over to the repo.

Introduction This is a companion, or reference article for the series on creating a game in Rust which starts here.

For those who just want the juice, here’s the repo.

Introduction YouTube is an amazing site, but it’s not without flaws.

Getting old is inevitable, but growing up is a choice.

Note: I’ll be adding to this in the future This is not a general introduction to Rust’s borrow system or the use of lifetimes, but notes on scenarios I’ve encountered and how I’ve understood them to work.

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This is part of an FAQ for AI concepts.

This is part of an FAQ for AI concepts.

About I built this around the time OpenAI came out with their API, and have only touched it up a little so I could put it out there for others to learn from.

This is part of an FAQ for AI concepts.

This is part of an [FAQ)(..

These are questions I’ve had, or that I thought others who are exploring AI and the most recent advances in language models.

I’m not a complicated person.

From the perspective of someone who has been teaching for the last 15 years, the Microsoft Learn platform is frustrating on so many levels.

An insistence on rationalism requires a chain of logic that homogenizes everything it touches.

Recently, a friend asked if I could help out with small project that required uploading and serving images.

Introduction In the last post we looked at how to organize the data for our project, something which upon starting the code side of the project, I already realize will need to be revised at some point.

These trees are everywhere in Taiwan, with the most impressive ones often found near temples where they’re left to grow to a massive size.

I’ve found these small shrubs all over Taipei, mostly in parks and areas disturbed by people.

I’ve come across this tree in a number of parks here in Taipei.

One thing I’ve been impressed with is the ability of ChatGPT v4 to apply patterns from one context to other.

Introduction When Svelte 3.0 was released in 2019 I came up with Fourplay in order to give it a try.

There’s a lot of debate on where ChatGPT stands with regard to being able to reason.

Overview Now that we have an idea of where we’re headed, we can look at the technical side of things.

“I’d stab someone in the eye for a full night’s sleep,” was the message I received early Tuesday morning from my friend.

Motivation I’ve been hooked on MMOs since I played MUDs as a kid, but it was Ultima Online (UO) that really opened up what was possible for me.

Intro Note: This tutorial follows, in part, the code which can be found at this repo.

A common challenge teachers face is finding quality materials for the classroom.

SvelteKit’s load function is run prior to the page being rendered, whether it’s done on the server side with SSR or on the client side.

I also have a portfolio section which is particularly for instruction design.