The ghost of retirement future
Years ago, I had an experience that showed me what a bad retirement could look like. It was like Scrooge being visited by the Ghost of Retirement Future.
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LLM, but less harmful
Like every other asshole, I have an opinion about generative AI and LLMs. I also have some ideas to address some of their harms.
Did the dongle murder my car?
Bellingham, WA is a lovely town. Except I was stuck there, unplanned, with a dead car battery.
I made an HTML
The world-wide HTML Day celebration happened this past weekend. I went to the Portland event.
pdxOneYear
One year ago, I celebrated my first anniversary of moving to Portland with a series of daily social media posts, each a photo of something I loved about my new neighborhood.
Applied Chords Ref Sheet
I’m now in my third term of music theory. I just created a reference sheet for applied (or secondary) chords.
Matter Woes
Matter/Thread has been a frustrating addition to my home automation network. So why do I keep doing it?
Welcome to Blaugust 2026
I had a good thing going. I was blogging regularly – weekly in fact.
Examining reasons for 100% public funding of Moda Center renovations
There is a proposal to renovate it fully funded with public money -- nothing put up by the private team owner. I heard some of the reasons for that from supporters, and they aren't very good.
Adding Access File Logging to Flask … With Proxy!
I'll walk through the steps to add a web access log to a Python Flask app sitting behind a reverse proxy.