I’m working with a faculty member who wanted an AI persona for practicing difficult workplace conversations. The end goal is audio interaction and maybe a visual representation. I try to approach projects like these in stages. Can I build the stages out so that if we hit a wall, the stuff we’ve built to that […]
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Nothing fancy here, but I was really impressed by the new AI background option in Photoshop. I also note how I’m using the layer stroke option to make fancy text. Serious PS people will not be impressed. The bonus is seeing the crazy tree house that Middlebury had back in the early 1970s. […]
Talk-to-ChatGPT – Chrome Web Store zhudotexe/kani: kani (??) is a highly hackable microframework for chat-based language models with tool usage/function calling.kani (??) is a lightweight and highly hackable framework for chat-based language models with tool usage/function calling. Compared to other LM frameworks, kani is less opinionated and offers more fine-grained customizability over the parts of […]
I like how this ended up working/looking. PHP’s parse_url function made it easy to get the base URL from resource links we’re adding via ACF. At the moment, the resource type piece that indicates if it’s video, url, audio, or document is manually added but I could see trying to do it automatically. I hesitate […]
ScrollTrigger: SVG Text Maskso nice Collapsible Systems WikiThe goal of this project is to gather strategies, skills, disciplines, technologies, ideas, designs and critical thought in an effort to help prepare communities big and small for a time of great upheaval, an era of collapses (plural). It is not a submission to ‘The Collapse’ and nor […]
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It’s weird what I don’t notice. In this case, I hadn’t noticed I couldn’t choose a custom post type as the homepage for WordPress. I could certainly make a page template or do some work arounds but I didn’t want to. There is an existing plugin out there called Front Type but I’m really trying […]
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This is an odd mix of some on-the-road shots and some football. I’ve got a bunch of stuff from Maine and various road trips that I need to get up on Flickr but now that football is going . . . I’ll have several thousand shots to keep me busy each weekend. I ended up […]
I’m sure there are many ways to do this but it was a pretty specific request. They wanted a by year count of posts in all the categories. After a bit of looking around I just wrote a plugin. Most of the explanation is in the code comments. Get the first year where we have […]
‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over AmazonAmazon has an AI-generated books problem that’s been documented by journalists for months. Many of these books are obviously gibberish designed to make money. But experts say that AI-generated foraging books, specifically, could actually kill people if they eat the wrong mushroom because a guidebook […]