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A few days ago, I migrated the UK storytelling events site I’d been building on the newtroubadours subdomain of my storytelling home (montystoryteller.org) to its own domain at https://newtroubadours.org/ .

Every so often I tinker with Claude.ai to refactor code.

Last year, I “retired”, taking the early option to leave via a mutual resignation scheme.

I admit to using genAI for coding but I’m still reluctant to engage with in pretty much any other context except a bit of OCR (particularly with not-quite-Roman alphabets such as Old and Middle English texts), but eben then with a lot of care (genOCR does…

Noticing that Martin has announced the publication of his first novel — Publication Day!

Somehow I missed this, I guess in my run up to “retirement”… container is a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac.

Things like https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-cognitive-shortcut-paradox/ (AI used by novices may give answers but means they miss out on learning etc.) put me in mind of things like telly talent shows, where folk are transported from nowhere to “stardom”…

For several years, I’ve been creating “storynotes”, collections of story variants for particualr folk tales, as well as collections of news stories contemprary to particular historical events that I can then use as the basis for developing my own accounts,

Being now rather tired of WordPress and the requirements for hosting, I thought I’d build my personal stroytelling website using Hugo.

The things you find clearing out a machine… 1 day to go…