# vibing — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover vibing. Page: Feed: --- ## [Thinking in Public](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/19/thinking-in-public/) _2026-08-19 · dergigi.com_ I just took a nice long shower, as I often do, especially when I’m overwhelmed and stuck in some way (I’m both, as of this moment). There is too many things going on. Too much noise, too much doomerism, too much AI, and of course—how could I forget—too much LLM slop. I used to write long thinkboi pieces. People liked them, so I tried to write more of them. It was a form of audience capture,… ## [Privacy Implications of the Coldcard Catastrophe](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/14/privacy-implications-of-the-coldcard-catastrophe/) _2026-08-14 · dergigi.com_ It’s been two weeks, to the day. Two weeks since the beginning of the coldcard catastrophe , aka entropy emergency , aka the big suck . Two weeks since I buried my mother . Two weeks. I barely slept in these two weeks. The adrenaline is slowly but surely leaving my body. I’m tired . Everything hurts. My nervous system is trying to recalibrate from emergency mode back to normal. Normal. What does… ## [Betrayal](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/13/betrayal/) _2026-08-13 · dergigi.com_ There is this one quote about betrayal that’s been stuck at the back of my mind for a while now: “that’s the thing about betrayal. It never comes from the enemy.” That’s why it hurts so much. If you don’t trust someone, if he (or she) is your enemy, betrayal doesn’t happen. Trust has to come first, and after that betrayal can happen. The world runs on trust, and to a large degree it has to. You… ## [Two Checkboxes I'm Glad I Found in January](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/two-checkboxes-im-glad-i-found-in) _2026-08-12 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Any account could generate a key to every student's grades. Here's the afternoon I closed that door. ## [Slopocalypse Now](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/12/slopocalypse-now/) _2026-08-12 · dergigi.com_ I saw a post yesterday (or was it today? the days have been blurring together for almost two weeks now, so who knows) that speculated that humans will start to emulate the writing of Claude, which is to say that humans will produce, in addition to human slop, stuff that sounds and reads like LLM slop. Even if you don’t use LLMs to write your prose, you’re eventually going to start talking like… ## [Crushed](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/09/crushed/) _2026-08-09 · dergigi.com_ My thoughts around the recent catastrophe are still evolving. The dust hasn’t settled yet; neither have all transactions that are moving funds into attackers’ wallets (It’s safe to say that not all of them were even broadcast yet). And while I’ve broadcast GM and GN multiple times, I have yet to get a full night’s sleep. It was a weird couple of days, to put it mildly. For thousands (tens of… ## [Bad Seeds](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/06/bad-seeds/) _2026-08-06 · dergigi.com_ It’s going to be borderline impossible to collect my thoughts, but I’ll try anyway. Like many others, I haven’t slept much since Friday. My mind (or my body, or my soul) will wake me up after 3-5h of sleep, no matter what I do. No matter how tired I am, or when I go to sleep, and so on. The damage from the COLDCARD catastrophe is hard to measure. And I’m not necessarily talking about the financial… ## [The Big Suck](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/03/the-big-suck/) _2026-08-03 · dergigi.com_ Yes, things fucking suck right now. Something that should’ve never happened has happened , and is still happening as I’m typing these lines. The consequence? Innocent, hard-working people are getting rekt. Life savings gone. No recourse, no undo button, no number to call. Just an empty balance and utter disbelief. Hard to think of something that’s more devastating. The draining of funds won’t stop… ## [Unfiltered](https://dergigi.com/2026/07/30/unfiltered/) _2026-07-30 · dergigi.com_ Unfiltered thoughts are a beautiful thing. I think that’s in part why people enjoy long-form conversations , or the unhinged stuff that kids will say from time to time. You can’t self-censor for three hours straight, and kids haven’t developed the ability to self-censor in the first place. The current world is a filtered world. There are certain things that are kosher when it comes to evening… ## [Typing](https://dergigi.com/2026/07/28/typing/) _2026-07-28 · dergigi.com_ Typing at midnight, just for the sake of it. I got a new keyboard recently. It’s something I don’t do often: buying stuff for myself. I never spend money because I never had any, and I’m still terrible at spending money. But a couple of weeks ago I was like “fuck it,” and I pulled the trigger, and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made in recent months. For the first time in what feels like… ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oqyE16XTs5nO) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Building the Really Real](https://dergigi.com/2026/07/27/building-the-really-real/) _2026-07-27 · dergigi.com_ Sovereign Engineering exists because of one guy: John Vervaeke. Few people know about him, even fewer people can pronounce his name properly, and even though I’ve been ranting and raving about him and his work for the last 5 years or so, I doubt that more than a handful of people have actually listened to his lectures and ingested his vast body of work. (If this is you, please stop reading this… ## [Who approves Athena?](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/who-approves-athena) _2026-07-23 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Instructure's new AI study coach connects through the student's account, not yours. ## [Reading the Room](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/reading-the-room) _2026-07-06 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Holding the groove, and the trust that never came down the org chart. ## [Write Your Quiz in Word. Let Canvas Take It From There.](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/write-your-quiz-in-word-let-canvas) _2026-07-01 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ I got five bucks that says creating quizzes generates more support tickets than any other area of Canvas. ## [Sayings](https://dergigi.com/2026/06/21/sayings/) _2026-06-21 · dergigi.com_ Sayings. My mother loved sayings. She got most of them from her mother, who loved sayings too. “Who knows what it’s good for” was one of her favorites. When I was younger I didn’t understand most of them. Now that I’m older, I’m slowly but surely turning into an idiom connoisseur, just like my grandmother used to be. “Who knows what it’s good for.” I understand it now. I know what it means , or at… ## [Cancer](https://dergigi.com/2026/06/17/cancer/) _2026-06-17 · dergigi.com_ Cancer. Fuck cancer. Fuck cancer sideways. With a rake. I was sitting on the same bouncy ball that I’m sitting on right now when my mum called me, telling me that my dad killed himself. He had cancer too, by the way. I’m not sure if I ever mentioned it. Lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer of the blood and bone marrow. I don’t think that he killed himself because of it, since he was surprisingly stable in… ## [When Canvas Goes Dark, Your .imscc File Is Worthless](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/when-canvas-goes-dark-your-imscc) _2026-06-15 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ From the Admin side of the desk ## [Forgetting](https://dergigi.com/2026/06/15/forgetting/) _2026-06-15 · dergigi.com_ Forgetting is a gift. We don’t like to forget, but it’s a gift nonetheless. If you’d ask random people on the street whether they’d like to have perfect memory, most of them would probably say yes without giving the question another thought. But imagine for a moment, if you may, the absolute curse of perfect, eternal memory. All your mistakes, all your regrets, all the terrible things you did in… ## [The Canvas Insider Grows Up](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/the-canvas-insider-grows-up) _2026-06-09 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ I started this blog in 2022 because I had information to share about Canvas and no place to say it. ## [Vibing With Gemini - Bulk Suspend Guest Accounts](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-bulk-suspend-guest) _2026-05-20 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Based on recent events, there may be questions posed about guest accounts in your Canvas LMS, and whether they should be suspended after a given time. ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1zBetkcnyvxk) _2026-05-20 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Careful, Icarus](https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/) _2026-05-20 · dergigi.com_ Yesterday I relapsed. Not alcohol, or drugs, or gambling, or anything of that sort. It was something worse: having an argument online. Back when twitter was still called twitter I found myself getting into many an argument. Not because I wanted to, but because—at least back in those days—the algorithm encouraged it . A constant back-and-forth between two stubborn people is off-the-charts on all… ## [Vibing with Gemini - Print and Export Quizzes](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-print-and-export) _2026-05-08 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ If you are using New Quizzes in Canvas, you’re familiar with the option to print your quiz with the answer key or print a blank quiz with no answers shown. ## [Vibing with Gemini - Popup Notification for specific assignment](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-popup-notification) _2026-05-01 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ For years I have supported my faculty clients in restoring balance to their course gradebook after discovering they edited the Roll Call Attendance assignment points from 100 to something else. ## [Vibing with Gemini - Convert DOCX to Canvas Quiz](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-convert-docx-to) _2026-04-30 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Instructure recently sent notifications about upcoming changes to its login user interface. It had little impact to those at my university accessing our Canvas LMS, but there was one significant area that was affected. ## [Caring about Sloppypasta](https://dergigi.com/2026/03/22/caring-about-sloppypasta/) _2026-03-22 · dergigi.com_ Things are insane right now, and maybe I’m too. Be that as it may, I feel like I’ve been a broken record for the last 18 months. Maybe longer. Some nights I wake up at 3am, startled, sweaty, and I hear myself screaming “ VERVAEKE! ” before I cry myself back to sleep. He’s right about everything, you know, this John Vervaeke . Well, maybe not everything. But most things. I believe he’s right about… ## [What's left of the internet?](https://dergigi.com/2026/03/20/the-internet-left-me/) _2026-03-20 · dergigi.com_ I didn’t leave the internet—the internet left me. And despite the “it’s not X it’s Y” structure of the previous sentence, and the em-dash used, a real human wrote this. Or more accurately: is currently (trying to) write this. This human is me . I love the internet. Or should I say I: I used to love the internet? I’m not even sure what “the internet” is anymore. It sure as fuck isn’t Facebook, even… ## [Can AI Do That? SpeedGrader Submission Previews](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/can-ai-do-that-speedgrader-submission) _2026-03-10 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ When a teacher can’t see their student essay submissions in SpeedGrader, can AI help troubleshoot the issue? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190524874/e11063a7a17ee56339f6032608786d53.mp3) ## [Can AI Do That? ...maybe](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/can-ai-do-that-maybe) _2026-02-26 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ In the educational technology timeline, the end of February 2026 will be remembered as the debut a new product named for a famous theoretical physicist. ## [Can AI Do That?](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/can-ai-do-that-ee0) _2026-02-17 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Old Courses Still in Dashboard ## [Can AI Do That?](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/can-ai-do-that) _2026-02-13 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Lost Grades ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vPBRUBmq40la) _2026-02-13 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [IgniteAI Agent - Meet & Greet](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/igniteai-agent-meet-and-greet) _2026-02-05 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Instructure recently released its IgniteAI Agent for Canvas Admins, and will soon be making it available to teachers of Canvas courses. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187001812/05e3b86bd979072b893b19e6695b27f8.mp3) ## [Canvas Theme CSS - Modifying to meet \ tag accessibility standards](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/canvas-theme-css-modifying-to-meet) _2025-11-13 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Hello again Canvas Insiders, [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/178810020/9ebb06ad74941ccbd9be41f894770736.mp3) ## [Building Boris](https://dergigi.com/2025/10/31/building-boris/) _2025-10-31 · dergigi.com_ It all started with a simple question: “What could I demo next Friday ?” Oh, what an innocent question. Who would’ve thought that one of the consequences of asking it would be me going borderline insane over text highlights? I didn’t have a clear answer to the question at first. But I know that I wanted to show the crew the “flight mode” functionality that I’ve been talking about a bunch. Here’s… ## [Student Annotation Assignments](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/student-annotation-assignments) _2025-09-04 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Welcome back to the new academic year, Insiders! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/172803258/ce1e894c583fa236a1744ff39772dd49.mp3) ## [Vibing with Gemini - File Storage Upload Errors in Course](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-file-storage-upload) _2025-08-21 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ Sometimes teachers in Canvas courses encounter error messages and are unable to upload files into their courses. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/171394787/1fd987de5070c0bf5d813823bf50741b.mp3) ## [Vibing with Gemini - Adding Student to Course Behind-the-Scenes](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-adding-student) _2025-08-20 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ What happens when a Canvas Admin like me wants to help staff with their Academic Honesty course, and visits Google Gemini for some “Vibe Coding” to help staff work smarter than harder? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/171394102/b29cb69daeb3ee581bd1e3b329a1d199.mp3) ## [Vibing with Gemini - Cross-listing Courses](https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/vibing-with-gemini-cross-listing) _2025-08-19 · Chris Powell · The Canvas Insider_ What happens when a Canvas Admin like me wants to work smarter instead of harder, and visits with Google Gemini for some “Vibe Coding”? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/171393187/bef0066e5aa30e57d5de7c733488b468.mp3) ## [Engineering Dialogue](https://dergigi.com/2025/07/25/engineering-dialogue/) _2025-07-25 · dergigi.com_ Every time we speak into the void of the internet, we are entering into a dialogue with the world. The world reacts, and even if we can’t see the faces of our audience, their reactions are real. They manifest in the digital realm, in conversations, in shared ideas, in the birth of new projects. Dialogue is at the core of Sovereign Engineering . It is why the program was created, why we made the… ## [He Hanged Himself in the Morning](https://dergigi.com/2024/11/15/he-hanged-himself-in-the-morning/) _2024-11-15 · dergigi.com_ We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language. Virginia Woolf My dad killed himself today. He hanged himself in the morning. I’m not sure what to say, what to feel, what to write, or if writing…