Year: 2026
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People don’t change as fast as technology. Until they are forced to.
This started as a collection of diverse links, but AI is gobbling a massive share of my mental tokens. My journey isn’t unique, and I haven’t shared it publicly, but I understand the hype viscerally now. Since late December 2025, I’ve finally picked up the new tooling, learning and building for myself. (Grateful to Aaron…
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Links to keep – February 9 2026
ICE and CBP overreach (ahem) are more prominent now, but Garret M. Graff demonstrates the problems spark from the creation of the Department of Homeland Security almost 25 years ago. “Since 9/11, the culture of ICE and CBP has meant that the agencies have been what you might call a fascist-secret-police-in-waiting, troubled agencies simply waiting…
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Links to keep – January 30 2026
The Family Firmament is a planetarium in the ceiling of a late 18th century house in the Netherlands. Great photos! Someone’s decades-long obsession leaves us with a remarkable working artifact of knowledge. Want to Reach Nirvana? Try a Colonoscopy. Let’s just say it’s the best nap ever. I avoid linking to everything James Fallows writes,…
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Links to keep – January 26 2026
At my own pace, and with my own interests, I’ve been dabbling with AI tooling and workflows. The second- and third-order societal impacts are still TBD, but I’ve learned enough to agree that “Choosing not to adopt API “right now” is a decision to fall behind.” True today for those in software fields and software…
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Links to keep – January 15 2026
Detailed story about American Samoans in Alaska being whipsawed by election law, which few involved even understand. The desire to tell a national story about election fraud (with few facts) leads to personal trauma for innocents: Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It. Where is Design Heading? is still in an open tab, not yet…
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Removing background from an image with Claude and ChatGPT
Things have been quiet on my blog for years, but over the holidays, I cleared some cruft and did very light customization of the default template, which included adding an About page, with an image of your author. Getting the image to a satisfactory place took me far longer than expected. I’m a neophyte in…