The Devil made me do it
My first ever ChatGPT prompt (yes, I’m a late adopter): I then tried the same topic as a country song and it went much, much faster.
Buffet R-13 Bb & A clarinets for sale
This is a pair of Buffet R-13 clarinets – one in the key of Bb and the other in the key of A. They were purchased in the early 1970s by a clarinet professor who played them regularly in recitals, orchestra concerts, and teaching from that time until his retirement from playing around 2010. I …
How to not increase the spread of bulldust
If you experience miasma from reading LinkedIn or other social media, or for that matter at trade shows or networking events, you may be experiencing bulldust. I started discussing this in a low-key, highly interrupted way last year on this blog, but it’s been difficult. I’m not as big an expert on this subject as …
The Decline and Fall of Social Media?
This is going to be low effort. Just walking around the digital water cooler and starting to notice the tiles falling from the ceiling. Fortunately not at MY workplace; we do something useful. Elon is certainly a big part of the specific problem going on right now, this minute, but there’s something rotten about the …
How to Know When a Situation is Bulldust-adjacent vs. Totally Dipped in It Pt. 1
In a previous post I mused about the nature of bulldust and promised to develop a few ideas along these lines. I was beginning to think that promise may have also been bulldust, but I managed to get ahead of life long enough to think about one of my topics: when situations are bulldust-adjacent vs. …
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Huntsville and General Life Update
“There’s a joke here somewhere, and it’s on me…” B.F.J Springsteen, American Philosopher I started an extremely well-meaning series on bulldust, and have not gotten far with it. It’s a slippery substance, and while in my head I think it’s fascinating all the ways people inflict each other with it, it seems more challenging to …
PHP 8.0 update
Today’s Friday deployment presented me with a few challenges: something or another in the process required an update to PHP 8.0. I had to update the .yaml file to do that, and the way I figured out to do that involved going to github directly – apparently this file isn’t in my local repo. then …
how-i-experience-web-today.com – a definite bulldust demo
https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ Someone has created a demo of what I want to talk about in patterns of bulldust. Enjoy! I’ve been busy with a work project and moving to another house, so I haven’t totally forgotten about my series.
Dark Patterns in BS (or Bulldust, if you Prefer)
Let’s get this out of the way first. Due to my Bible-Belt raising and some other philosophical commitments, I have a reservation about spelling the word represented as “BS” out. I will readily admit, however, that it’s hard to find a substitute. This guy has put a lot of thought into that very topic. By …
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Deploying WordPress at Platform.sh – hitting pause on this discussion
There have been a couple of developments since I started trying to write up my experiences getting started as a less-technical user on Platform.sh: Externally: we’ve started to publish some content that will likely do a better job on the official blog, ex.https://platform.sh/blog/2021/beginners-guide-to-platformsh/ Internally: we’re developing some additional resources along these lines. I don’t want …
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