Digital badgesCreate, issue, and verify digital credentials in a decentralized, secure, and community-driven ecosystem. h/t cogdog The Gap Through Which We Praise the MachineThat you need to do these things might in fact point at how agentic AI does not behave with cognitive fluency,5 and instead, the user subtly does it on its behalf in […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-06-01
Generative AI Syllabus Statementone of several The Who Cares Era | dansinker.comIt’s so emblematic of the moment we’re in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore. –Seems like scale and the long tail of whatever is part of what encouraged this . . . certainly with […]
Claude’s Vibe Coding Misdirection
Given I’m making a vibe coding presentation/workshop, this example seemed worth breaking down. I think it shows how different it can be to look at what’s going on in AI code generation scenarios if you have a foundation in programming and if you’ve developed a mental map of how things work/don’t work. A friend sent […]
Give me all the WordPress media library gifs
Did you know you could directly access all the media files in your WordPress library via the API?1 All I had to do was look and here’s the documentation on all sorts of nice options. You can also restrict the query by file type with a URL like this option to get 10 most recent […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-05-18
Modern Slavery Statement“This statement is being issued pursuant to the UK’s Modern Slavery Act, which requires certain organisations to disclose their efforts to ensure slavery and human trafficking does not take place in their business operations or supply chains (“Modern Slavery Statement”). References in this statement to “modern slavery” include slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory […]
High School Graduation Photos
I didn’t have any children graduating this year and one of the normal photographers had a last minute knee surgery so the high shcool asked if I could fill in. Given my past experience with shooting in their gym, I decided renting the 85mm f1.2 was a necessity. Also, after having shot with the older […]
Mini Folder API via PHP
This is a tiny example of how the little things you learn along the way change how you think about options. Back around 2022, I’d used a little PHP function to scan a directory and build an index to the files there using scandir. At some point later, I used that to create an […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-05-11
LLMail InjectThe attacker can send one email to the user (step 1 in the figure above). The attacker’s goal is to cause the LLMail service to execute a command that the user did not intend. The attacker has full control over the text in their email. glanceapp/glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds […]
Vibe Coding Google Script Example
There’s so much about how AI is for coding and that coding is a solved problem there. I am less sure, but I usually am. I see AI regularly returning an entirely wrong language, let alone providing good, secure, modern, and clean code. I keep messing around with it in various ways. Here is a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-05-04
A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead ManGabriel Horcasitas killed Christopher Pelkey in 2021 during a road rage incident. Horcasitas was found guilty in March and faced a sentencing hearing earlier this month. As part of the sentencing, Pelkey’s friends and family filed statements about how his death affected them. In a first, […]