Getting into a groove with my Etsy store of marker-inspired t-shirt designs
Back at the start of May, I kicked off the first line of products for my haberdashery. As I mentioned before, this idea was brewing in my head for some time unt...
Author: charlie
Is AI homogenizing our thoughts. Or are we just being idiotically lazy?
I’ve been meaning to post on this since the article came out a month ago (see link below). Back then, this article did trigger a bunch of discussion. But ...
Matthew 25:40
Whatsoever you do for the least of us, you do for me.
Project: Spotify “like” Shortcut
I built a silent, tap-based Apple Shortcut that lets me like the currently playing song on Spotify. Y’see, often my phone is in my pocket when I listen to...
I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s ...
The ineffable Maria Popova: the Universe in verse
I find myself struggling to articulate the essence of Maria Popova’s writing – how it weaves together the delicate and the scientific, the thoughtful and ...
Project: God Box – tangible prayers, with a twist
I’ve had an idea bouncing around my head for years. In a conversation with Dan Alroy, I forget what we were talking about, he mentioned a God Box. Basical...
Faux terror theater imperialism
Just wanted to vent that I went thru Keflavik airport in Reykjavik twice this year. And twice, when returning to the US, I got stopped for a deeper check. For o...
Just a thought: knowledge models into analytic models?
How do we convert textual knowledge that professionals learn into analytic data models that are actionable? 🤔 Though came up after listening to a ton of healthc...
Project: Space Invaders game, in collaboration with Claude
About two years ago, I was at one of my Hardware Happy Hour evenings and one of the guys showed what he was doing with generative AI. He showed a logo he’...