This post was going to begin with "Last year, I wrote 24 blog posts about bloggers whose content I followed." Until a voice in the back of my head said "wait, maybe I did that the year before." It turns out that is the case: my Advent of Bloggers series, where I wrote about blogs … | Continue reading
This is the second post in the Advent of Technical Writing series, wherein I will share something I have learned from my experience as a technical writer. My experience is primarily in software technical writing, but what you read may apply to different fields, too. View all post … | Continue reading
"Pink croissant" were the first two words that came to mind, as I racked my brain to figure out what food stuff had been on the table. It was a guava croissant. A delightful snack. The coffee? That wasn't so good. I ordered a "special drip coffee" and I think "special" may have m … | Continue reading
I gazed up at the Empire State Building from a few blocks away. The building was illuminated with red, white, and blue, in celebration of Veterans Day. Tall buildings fill me with wonder, and this one arguably more so than others. The Empire State Building was constructed in appr … | Continue reading
At Homebrew Website Club this week, we discussed book indexes (with the Chicago Manual of Style nearby as a reference, of course!). This got me thinking about what a web index may look like for a blog: a page formatted like a book index where you can see articles that mention uni … | Continue reading
This week, I have been tinkering with Natural Language Processing (NLP) to build an index for my personal website. While I was creating this project, I explored various techniques to help me find words relevant enough to be featured in the index. | Continue reading
There is something blissful about awaking naturally before your alarm is scheduled to go off for the day. I woke up on my own terms, joyfully surprised given my propensity to depend on multiple alarms in the morning. | Continue reading
There is a special feeling when the sun shines through the window near which you are situated. It is delightful when the sun is not so bright as to cause strain on your eyes, but bright enough to illuminate your space. I am seated next to a green plant; the sunlight makes the pla … | Continue reading
As I write, I am sitting in a cafe, watching people walk by from a window seat. Through the power of Spotify, Taylor Swift is singing through my ear. the last great american dynasty. I have finished up improvements to bsky.link and mf2.link, my services that make it easy to embed … | Continue reading
One of the main reasons I wanted a Macbook was to build applications for iOS. In 2014, I watched many lectures from Stanford University's Developing iOS 7 Apps series ^1. The series covered Object-Oriented Objective-C. I was 11-12 at the time when I was watching the course. I can … | Continue reading
Note: This post discusses loneliness. I'm okay. Let me say that again. I'm okay. I feel more connected than I have in a long time. With that said, if it weren't for my friends being open about their experiences with loneliness -- and the encouragement I received to talk about my … | Continue reading
At a Homebrew Website Club meeting a few weeks ago, we discussed the tea culture in the UK. Mark and I, the co-hosts, live in the UK, so we spent some time talking about tea. A pattern emerged. We collectively named some times at which drinking tea was common after the hour of th … | Continue reading
It is Friday evening. From the window, I can see a pale lavender colour in the sky. Ever since hearing the song Lavender Haze by Taylor Swift, I have both had the song at the top of my head on many days and become more attuned to the lavender colours in the sky. An intriguing com … | Continue reading
Every so often, I procrastinate on my phone more than usual. I check sites that I know I have just checked to see if there is anything new, such as Hacker News and The Guardian. I check my notifications without hearing a sound indicative of a notification (I have disabled notific … | Continue reading
I have been experimenting with OpenAI's GPT 3.5 Turbo API for the last week or so. The result of my experimentation is James Bot, an AI bot that is built to answer questions where the answers can be provided with reference to my blog, wiki, and GitHub READMEs. My goal with this p … | Continue reading