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…
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…
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…