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Here’s a neat project from my friend Andrew Burke: Bloomsday Halifax, which takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Sunday June 16, 2024. Andrew has put this on previously in 2018, but this year sounds …

For some reason, most of my (ca. 12.000) songs were deleted from my iPhone – not the related meta data, though: Everything was still showing up, but the songs without album art in those screenshots …

On AI and community owned data TL; DR – Imagine a world where communities nurture, own, govern and sell access to their data. Community owned data could give us a better, more vibrant AI ecosystem …

Kerfuffles are Kerfuffles. Causing one recently, with its particularly low-stakes aspects (what’s done is done, no actions appear to be planned, I’m already doing things differently, etc.) allowed me to at least re-visit a policy …

I’ve recently switched back from vscode to Sublime Text, which means that after all the time I spent training my fingers to type “code somefile.txt” instead of “subl somefile.txt” I now need to undo all …

Figuring out how to upload a Ghost theme using the Admin API from Bash shouldn't have required heroic effort. Embarrassingly, it did. ↓ Jump to the script ↓ I cobbled a script together from the …

There’s a story in one of Georges Simeon’s 1930s detective stories that I think about sometimes when talking about a certain kind of AI problem. Simenon’s hero, Inspector Maigret of the judicial police in Paris, …

Disclaimer, just in case… 🔗 I work for Google on the Chrome Developer Relations team. But for this post, I want to make it super duper clear that I'm speaking not on behalf of my …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

Following my experiments with the ChatGPT-assisted AI Chair 1.0, I’ve been continuing experiments with a range of other LLMs. The below image is Chair 1.1, designed with the assistance of Mistral AI. Before embarking on …

From John O'Nolan (CEO of Ghost):How did Stewart's infamous "we don't sell saddles here" essay go down internally, at the time? And how do you feel that essay aged, with hindsight?Stewart shared We Don't Sell …

Introduction to everythingPlease note that I really do like Enigma, and I have mad respect for everybody who designed its levels, since the levels are an essential part of the game. As you read, please …

Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Lynyrd …

I recently upgraded from a Ryzen 3700X to a 5950X. Double the cores, and nearly double the potential heat output. I didn’t upgrade my cooling solution, a 240mm Kraken X53 AIO liquid cooler.

Estoy encantado de anunciar que hoy sale a la venta La Ética del Futuro, la traducción al español de mi libro Future Ethics.Desde que publiqué el libro hace unos años, muchas personas me han dicho …

If you long for a web of yore were things were better, somehow: The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, …

Maybe this will help. In my circles, AI is either everything or it is nothing. It is the thing to use in every case because if we don’t someone else will or it is the …

A surprisingly great way to pull your brain away from your keyboardContinue reading on Medium »

Using a Fire Stick I bought a TV a few months ago. I hadn’t had one for a while, but I was ready to make a home theater at the time of purchase. I already …