Blogging and AI: A Personal Take

I've been mulling over this clash between AI and the content it's trained on for some time now. As a frequent user of AI and a regular online publisher, I see both sides of the coin. I'm well aware that the articles I put

My Enjoyment Is Always Last

On their Bear blog, tiramisu writes about their family: > it doesn't matter what he thinks or feels about things like family vacations. He does them because they're things he should do, and moments like that illustrate how differently our brains are wired. This cuts very

Don't Miss Anything Or You Won't Make It

Cory Dransfeldt writes in a way that feels like it's aimed at me, because everything is a checklist: > Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero. I know this looks neurotic; it is neurotic because I'm neurotic. I always have been,

The Never-Ending Task List

Every so often, I end up here, in a place where every task completed is met with a few more added to the end. As the list grows, so does my anxiety about trying to reach the end—an end that is never in sight, let alone becoming any closer.

Blogging Isn't Always Easy

Brandon encouraging more people to blog the way he does: > It's easy, blog about what you like. Talk about the things that you are passionate about, things you find joy in, or document your day-to-day. I really enjoyed this post, despite disagreeing slightly. You see, we both

The Missing Human Curation

Cassidy writing about the missing human curation: > When algorithms determine everything we should see, the internet becomes much less personal. The “For You” pages of the world are accurate—I am interested in that content, but I'm not seeing it from my friends, or that one author

Does Gear Matter?

Arun Venkatesan has lots of thoughts on photography gear: > The problem lies within the question itself. It's one of those inquiries that cannot be definitively answered with anything other than "it depends." It depends on who is using the gear. It depends on what they

Don't Forget The Effort

Ava writing about effort in their newsletter: > if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally

Displaying Limited Number Of Posts In 11ty

Another day, another tweak I'm making to my blog. Today's task, alongside sorting out the navigation  to display better, was adding some content to my Posts page. On my old blog, this page listed all the tags I have and a few examples of the posts

More People Should Write

James Somers encouraging more people to write: > More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. This is an old post, and reminiscent of many newer