AI as UI What this amounts to is a new way of accessing information, not a new form of learning itself. So, while on the surface it appears to be a discussion, it masquerades as assimilative. Source: AI as UI Rethinking Shared Governance (opinion) Budgetary decisions are frequently the product of negotiated compromise among internal […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-05-03
Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) If an LLM wrote the code for you, and you then reviewed it, tested it thoroughly and made sure you could explain how it works to someone else that’s not vibe coding, it’s software development. The usage of an LLM to support that activity […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-04-26
Subnautica 2 publisher’s CEO used ChatGPT in failed bid to avoid paying US$250m bonus to own studio head, court hears | ChatGPT | The Guardian ChatGPT initially responded that the earnout would be “difficult to cancel” but later at ChatGPT’s suggestion Kim formed an internal taskforce, dubbed Project X. Source: Subnautica 2 publisher’s CEO used […]
Scalar – The USC one for publishing webpages
Scalar often frustrates me. Probably because I only interact with it on rare occasions and usually when something has broken. The name also drives me crazy because I struggle to find documentation or posts given how much math and other software turns up.1 Here’s hoping this eases someone else’s frustration. First, there are several empty […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-04-19
Anatomy of Brown Trout Coloration | Flipbook Explore this Flipbook page about dorsal side spots pattern. Source: Anatomy of Brown Trout Coloration | Flipbook Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! I did not install any Anthropic browser extension. I have never installed a Claude browser extension due to […]
Chicken Scratch – linocut progression
Finally got around to test prints with these older carvings. I’m still being pretty casual with the prints. My pressing workflow is limited to rubbing the back of the linoleum with the bottom of a jelly jar and my ink is rolled out on a piece of tinfoil. It is interesting how much more clearly […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-04-12
Text-to-speech generation (TTS) | Gemini API | Google AI for Developers Out of the box, the model will natively interpret a transcript and determine how your words should be delivered. Simple transcripts without any additional prompting sound natural. But Gemini TTS also comes with tools you can use to steer it. The purpose of this […]
Stripped of intuition, can you even wander?
I didn’t think we were doing very well with technology and building technological intuition1 prior to AI. We were not, with any degree of consistency or scale, helping people understand how to use technology to augment simple thinking, let alone preparing them to augment their thinking in new and different ways. I look back to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-04-05
samuelbradshaw/text-to-timestamps: Python and command-line utility for aligning audio to a transcript. Text to Timestamps (previously Text to VTT) is a Python package and command-line utility for aligning audio to a transcript. It can provide block, phrase, and/or word-level timestamps for an existing transcript or a generated transcript. Source: samuelbradshaw/text-to-timestamps: Python and command-line utility for aligning […]
Linocut III – The adventure continues
Unlike Remo Williams, I continue to honor my promises and produce sequels. While I haven’t actually printed anything recently, I have been doing more work in the realm of linocuts. In the real of practicing what I preach, here are many things that are not where I’d like them but are part of the process […]