Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? But ChatGPT got...

In 1976, Mason Resnick took a workshop with Garry Winogrand.We looked at the portfolio without hearing a word of explanation. Winogrand spoke little. He seemed bored and restless, uncomfortable about being stuck in a classroom. When he did talk, his raspy voice reminded me of a a New York

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Check out As in guillotine... for more. "Meanwhile, if you’re reading this via email or RSS, be sure to check out my WordPress!" #cmonson Five Things for August 7, 2025 Five Things: August 7, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....

I go through the same cycle every week. Throughout the week I collect interesting links that I come across, and then on Friday I sit down, go through the list and put together this linkdump. I don't specifically go looking for things to put in here, I just bookmark whatever I come across via Mastodon or RSS or...

Like many, I've always romanticized the idea of traveling long-term, all while earning my living solely through my laptop and my phone. I've loosely experimented with this, traveling for periods from a week to three months while working to some degree. In my view, this kind of lifestyle is not sustainable (at least...

When I was a kid I was obsessed with Project Ako. They used to play it all the time on the SciFi Channel (along with Akira and Ninja Scroll). But there was something about Project Ako in particular that really drew me in. It was ridiculous, funny, and had girls as the leads instead of boys. As I grew up, whenever...

Day 23, What words of wisdom would you give to your younger self? What wisdom would I give myself that wasn’t earned? I think my younger self would laugh. Like he always did at his parents and at the world. He didn’t think much of idle words, he learned best via action. But if I could catch his ear, if I could get...

Another blog post? The second one in two days. My mind has been occupied with running lately, so much so that it got me thinking about all the things I learned from running over the last 20 years. I'm not saying I'm some sort of running expert, not at all actually, but I do know a thing or two by now. Running has...

A polarised world is usually a disaster but the entertainment-quotient is enormous. And so, as much as I dislike the kind of polarisation that's happening in my small little world of software developers about AI and LLM-driven software engineering, I tell you, it is incessantly entertaining. On the one hand, the...

Summer’s my least favorite season, but that’s not to say I hate it or anything. Yeah, the 90+ degree days with heat indices of 100-115 wear on me quickly, running feels like more of a slog, and the mosquitos drive me nuts, but there’s a lot to like, too. The sunsets are tough to beat and the smells of summer bring...

Been browsing powRSS a lot more lately, and it's really helped fill out my RSS reader feed. I fee like I always have something interesting to read from a variety of bloggers and topics. Here's a few that especially seemed discussion-sparking or interesting. Blogs Quailblog - The May-July Flower Report MSD is a...

Here's a pretty photo I made using Python and some neat mathematics and statistics. So he was the original photo of my friend's dog for reference. So you absolutely could get the photo above using some filter in Photoshop or your favorite editing app. But where's the fun in that? I want to teach you mathematics....

I used to chew gum a lot as a kid. Remember that zebra decorated pack, I think it was called Fruit Stripe? And then there Bubblicious. Probably didn’t spell that right. The point is, I loved chewing gum. Every once in a while I’d get some Wrigley Spear Mint and I’d feel a little more grown up. I haven’t actually had...

On the screen to my right, I just noticed what amounts to an advertisement for AI. Someone uploads their resumé and submits the following prompt: “Can you make a storybook for my 2- and 4-year-old daughters explaining my career in the style of a coloring book?” I am not a parent, so maybe this is an unfair...

My wife’s grandfather passed away near the start of this year, and while going through his things her family found an iMac that nobody knew the password to. I’m sort of the go-to person in the family for problems like this, but it also seemed like a fun challenge so I figured I’d take a crack at it. I didn’t learn...

During all my time with KDE projects, I've never made an app from scratch.. Except now. Today my first KDE app ever, KomoDo, was released on Flathub! It's a simple todo application for todo.txt format and parses todo.txt files into a list of cards. One task is one card. The application has help sections for any of...

Succede più spesso di quanto pensiate: qualcuno lascia l’azienda, a volte con il sorriso, a volte con la scatola di cartone piena di effetti personali e un’espressione perplessa. Pochi minuti dopo, su Slack o in mailing list interne, arriva l’inevitabile messaggio d’addio: lungo, sofferto, magari con una citazione...

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The movie “Elizabethtown” is 20 years old this year, and I re-re-re-watched it again recently; it’s not a particularly popular movie, but it’s one of those that I can’t watch without having it leave a deep crater in my heart every time… It’s hard to describe.

If you're interested in the goings-on of Collxn, I just launched a new blog called Connxn, and with it an article that talks about what's new today.For the most part, I'm going to keep the more developer-y topics on this site. Here's an example about an MVC pattern for programmatic email I use in Collxn.The updates...

There haven't many Sky scraper-related updates for a while, mainly because it's summer, and I prefer to spend most of my spare time chasing airplanes. But the weather during last two weeks of July wasn't exactly conducive to any sort of outdoor activities, so I took the opportunity to work on improving Sky scraper.

Listen to A Conversation With a Voicemail I Will Never Delete Today is your birthday. It’s the day I allow myself to call you. My thumb hovers over your name in my contacts, a name I will never have the heart to move to an "In Memoriam" list. I press the button. The phone makes no sound as it dials, but I can feel...

If you are new around here, you won’t notice the changes I have recently made to my site - but if you’ve visited here before, things will be looking quite different! I did a full rewrite of my blog using the Antfustyle Astro template, built in a shortform Notes section (that automatically gets posted to...