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  • The Carbon Footprint of AI Written Books and a Rating System For Environmental Impact

    The Carbon Footprint of AI Written Books and a Rating System For Environmental Impact

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    Reading Time: 3 minutes— title: It’s worth considering a new rating system for AI generated content such as books. According to [an article in The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/daggermouth-novel-bestseller-ai/688067/) AI written slop in the form of Daggermouth is best selling AI fiction and my first thought is that this is awful. It’s awful because AI can generate books…

  • Some Limitations of Gemini

    Some Limitations of Gemini

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor several days now I have been playing with Gemini, Google Takeout files and Flick Export files, first to re.marry json data to relevant exif fields, and then to create a folder structure library by year, month and day. In the process I have had to itterate, and itterate, and think lateraly…

  • The Wastefulness of Mobile First Design

    The Wastefulness of Mobile First Design

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few years now I have noticed a worrying trend, one that sees content become so sparse on a web page that you see one tweet or facebook post per screen height.  Before mobile first design, and the proliferation of React websites you would find pages that had twenty to thirty…