Category: tech related
-
Using WordPress as a Fediverse Instance
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver a period of a few days I have turned my WordPress blog into a fediverse instance. The process took some trial and error. In the end it was quit easy and there are three steps. Step One: Have a WordPress Instance The first step is to have a WordPress blog/CMS. You…
-
How to Audit Hugo HTML
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith Hugo you can generate entire websites within milliseconds if they’re small and seconds if they’re large. Within a very short amount of time thousands of pages are generated. If you went through and checked each page then this could take hours, or even weeks, depending on the size of the site.…
-
Playing with AI and Learning to Keep It Simple, Silly
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I was playing with AI in the evening and I asked it to help me write a function that would detect whether an array item was a photo or a video. I told the AI, this is a photo array item, and this is a video array item. I want the…
-
Converting This Blog To Hugo
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday I converted my blog from WordPress to Hugo as an experiment and it went quite well. I downloaded the xml file and then I converted that xml with blog2md to go from xml to md pages. A page was created for every single blog post. This took a while. I…
-
My AI Teacher
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I want to discuss something different. I want to discuss using AI as a teacher, rather than as a tool to replace us. For a few days I have been playing with the Instagram json file that I got when I requested my archive. With this json file I thought about…
-
Removable Batteries are coming back
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy a large majority the European Union has voted to bring back user replaceable batteries to mobile phones. This is fantastic for one reason, over all others. I keep my phones for years, not seasons. Over that time the battery health degrades. As it degrades the battery life goes from lasting an…
-
On Being Told Not to Fear AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesThey love to say “Don’t fear AI”. They all say “AI is meant to help people with their work”, “AI is meant to be a personal assistant” and more. It’s not AI we fear. It is stakeholders, governing boards and accountants. They are the people we fear. Throw in Inhuman resources for…
-
The Pay To Play and Pay To Win iOS Games
Reading Time: 2 minutesI like casual gaming. I like to play games on the iPhone when commuting or waiting for something to happen. The problem is that casual gaming is about seeing adverts at the end of every puzzle or challenge. For every game of solitaire, every game of Woodoku and more games, you see…
-
The Mindful Shave
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two weeks or so I have been using a safety razor rather than the usual electric shaver, or conventional three to four blade shavers. In the process I have had to become more attentive to what I am doing. The Usual Shave With an electric razor you turn it on and…
-
On The Value of Not Being Anonymous on Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I felt comfortable tweeting as myself for two reasons. The fist reason is that we met up so often than tweeting under my actual name made sense. The second reason is that it was a network of friends of friends and we were seldom, if ever trolled. That changed during…