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I've been trying a great many of the LLM-based "chat apps" and "games".

There's a famous Vorlon saying "The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote" and it is a fun sounding aphorism, but it is also a falsehood, both in context in its moment in Babylon 5 and in general.

Several years back I thought about building a silly offline-first, peer- to-peer (P2P) application for a small audience and playing around with alternative authentication schemes and felt I came up with a fun one.

Warning This post is going to be full of things that are "spoiler shaped" for the MCU films and TV shows of the last several years.

Bell Labs, March 1940 "Lab Director, would you mind taking a listen to this call we found?"

I was skimming old blog articles and realized it has been a while since I've done small posts.

"AI-Driven Innovation" is an oxymoron to excuse over-relying on "legacy code as a service".

This is a day job project that for a bit I thought might spin out into an open source library but the funny thing about it is that it has been more of a chisel the statue out of the marble type of project.

About a year ago, I put together a small add-on for Fantasy Grounds to add a metric calendar (or Stardate calendar) to the extensible calendar system of the virtual tabletop (VTT) Fantasy Grounds because I was contemplating an attempt to GM a one-off sess…

I offered to write a new voting tool for my favorite book club.

Butterfloat released a big 1.5.0 with a big new building block (nicknamed Stamps) for server-side rendering and static ahead-of-time rendering for the static HTML parts of components.

I've found myself giving multiple light tutorials on how simple modern ES Module-only packaging can be in Node/npm packages.

I've been working on a modern web view engine named Butterfloat (now in pre-release) that is interestingly Knockout-inspired, but with a focus on Typescript and as pure as possible RxJS Observables.

I'd had a passive interest in finding this novel for years.

With version 6.0.0 I released one last feature for the Pharkas Component Framework and with version 7.0.0 I updated it to the Angular's current LTS (15).

The other day on Mastodon I got to thinking and talking again about how some of the ideas of Star Trek: Picard's first season really with resonated me, but that it was mostly a problem of execution of them to me, and that was part of why I watched the full

In November and December I had a maelstrom of different things smash together that all sort of reminded me of strange parts of my education, all the while I was fighting some illness that was mildly Flu-like.

I realize that I fell out of the habit of "of the Moment" posts as so much of that sort of discussion moved to social media.

Previously I blogged about many concerns that I have about the sorts of examples that Angular sets (deep in its core libraries) and how I feel like it leads to a "pit of failure" when it comes to reliability engineering and performance optimization.

I wrote what follows this foreword on July 9, 2018.