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Finally Embracing Flatpak

I know, I'm late as fuck to the party. The thing is, I'm not a fan of Flatpak, or Snap, or even Dockerizing things for the sake of using containers. I like to stick as close to the system's package [...]

Mining Conversational AI for Content Ideas

I've mentioned it before, I don't use AI to generate content for this blog. I'm also open about the fact that I very much use AI for a bunch of stuff, including finding typos and misspellings. From my perspective, usage [...]

Dumping ChatGPT for Claude

With the fast changing landscape of LLMs, our time with each new model and/or version is more of a fling than a forever relationship. Even though I've been using ChatGPT since its release, I've always dabbled with different tools as [...]

You don't need a /now page

Earlier this year I moved my blog from WordPress to Eleventy. During this process I had rediscovered /now pages. After consuming all of the confirmation bias out there that's trying to suck up to Derek Sivers (nothing personal, I think [...]

Creativity needs to be DRM-free

While I much prefer to play guitar and bass in my music, I do love me some soft synths. They afford you a ton of options on the cheap. Sure, they aren't as "warm" or whatever, but there's ways to [...]

Stop judging your mix by your phone's speakers

While I know my mixes aren't perfect, I do take pride in trying to make things sound good. And by good I mean, good enough for my ears. I'll pine for hours, tweaking small things, notching the EQ, and all [...]

Streaming services playing art police

I've been doing a ton of genre-dipping with my current musical project, sorority hamster, as I try to figure out my voice. In doing so, I've ventured deep into the hyper niche of grindcore / cybergrind. By definition, grindcore songs [...]

How to rate-limit requests with NGINX

This so-called "AI Era" is a fucking mess. The web is full of low-quality slop articles and made up imagery. Self-hosting is more of an exercise in DDoS mitigation than anything else. What a time to be alive. All you [...]

Move fast and make noise

Ever do something sorta as a joke and then the lines start to blur a bit? That's where I'm at right now. After watching the DEVO documentary a while back, I was really fired up to make some new music [...]

Creating links in Slack

Depending on if you have the "Format messages with markup" option selected, you may or may not have a button to create links available to you. Here's some notes on both scenarios. "Format messages with markup" option disabled If you [...]