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The Loss of Future Nostalgia for modern Connected Toys

When I was cleaning out my basement, I found my talking Ed Grimley doll, a very old toy from the 80s with a pull string. When you pull the string, it says something that Martin Short’s character would say like “I’m totally mental I must say!”. Today, thirty-some years later, it still works. It talks a little fast, but overall it works. The same goes for my Talking Buzz…

AI is the Team You Can't Afford to Hire

There’s a big problem with the way that I see people use AI in their design work. A lot of times people treat AI as an answering machine, meaning you ask it a question or you tell it to do something and it just gives you something back. I have seen student designers overly rely on it. I’ve seen student designers dismiss it entirely. I have seen professional designers over-rely as well…

Exporting Content from Publii to Jekyll (or any Flat-file CMS)

Updated 3/2026 In this tutorial, we’ll export Publii data and put it into basic Markdown for use in Jekyll (or any flat file CMS like Hugo ). About a year ago, I stopped using my home grown blog engine and switched to using Publii . I’ve been relatively happy with that tool but found limitations that blocked me: local install made it difficult using it on multiple machines lack of…

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I’m messing around with my website’s schema now to unify my online presence.

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Let’s use apostrophes like there’s no tomorrow.

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I promise this is it… hit like or subscribe!

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Last test of the day (psyche!). If you see this on Bluesky, please favorite or like or repost or whatever the verbs are #posse

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Or this one?

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That didn’t work so let’s retry posting to Bluesky too #posse

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I’m now trying to post to mastodon AND Bluesky at the same time. If you see this on Bluesky, please like or repost! #posse #fediverse