random thought

I’ve seen a lot of doomsaying about the death of the internet. Last night, I was reading about how integrated AI answers in search results leads to a drastic drop in clicks to the actual sites from which AIs derive the information to answer those questions or make those suggestions. It’s been noted that AI […]

No matter what else you may pay for when you hire a developer, you will always be paying for these two things: 1) Their time. Every developer I know is busy, including myself. That means, in order for something to be good enough for them to stop whatever else it is that they are working […]

When I was a meat-eater, I couldn’t fathom being vegetarian. It just didn’t seem possible. Then I cut out red meat and pork, but I couldn’t imagine not eating chicken or fish. Then I stopped eating chicken, but the choices for most vegetarians, it seemed, on menus when we went to restaurants was so limited, I thought that’s […]

it’s interesting how muscle memory works. or, if not muscle memory (a term i just grabbed because it seemed appropriate without knowing anything about the actual scientific usage of said phrase) then the way your body remembers things that, intellectually, you probably couldn’t possibly keep straight. very close to nightly i quietly enter and exit […]