I’ve been swimming weekly for almost 2 months now, because I was (am) a poor swimmer and want to improve. The main things that were holding me back are common issues – it was hard to keep my legs up, and I couldn’t breathe comfortably. In addition to reading and watching YouTube videos, I reached out to a college...
I’m been in a big building and tinkering mood recently, and have been really getting into Valheim. I play solo and honestly don’t have too much time to put into it, but I’ve been building larger bases and am legitimately excited to keep trying new things and progress further. I’m not much good at it, so while I’m...
Swimming As I promised myself, I started swimming this month. I still need to put in a lot of work, but I’m hopeful that I can make some reasonably improvements — both to my swimming form, and to my fitness in general. I’ve started compiling my notes from each session here. The neighborhood It’s been 6 years since...
Swimming As I promised myself, I started swimming this month. I still need to put in a lot of work, but I’m hopeful that I can make some reasonably improvements — both to my swimming form, and to my fitness in general. I’ve started compiling my notes from each session here. The neighborhood It’s been 6 years since...
This post by Daniel Gilbert immediately resonated with me, because I struggle with procrastination and have found AI tools to be surprisingly helpful in overcoming it. I have a stale task waiting to be done, but I just can’t bring myself to get started working on it. All I really have to do is pull up my AI agent...
Local AI shines when the model’s job is transforming user-owned data, not acting as a search engine for the universe.
Spectrimage takes a photograph, visualizes the color information pixel-by-pixel, and builds a palette. Great writeup of techniques to extract a good set of colors from any image.
A lovely web app to extract color palettes from images. Simple, but really impressive set of features.
Consumption versus Creation. I’ve long been conscious of two contrasting categories of pastimes – those that consume, and those that create. Consumption is fast. Consumption is passive. Consumption is easy. Consumption in today’s world is limitless, as there are an infinite number of sources that each provide an...
Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now. There are really useful new CSS features that I’m embarrassed to say I knew nothing about.
This looks like a pretty neat interactive fiction game, by Michael Gentry. Excited to give it a shot. This is a pretty enormous game. There are lots of rooms to explore and lots things to mess with, and they don’t all necessarily contribute directly to solving the game. Don’t be daunted. Don’t spend too much time...
I recently rebuilt my site, and this gave me an opportunity to rethink how to organize its contents. Vertical architecture Most websites have what I consider to be a “vertical” architecture. This is probably based on early websites being essentially public file servers with files contained in various folders. With a...
