Personal
Effort-Driven Quality?
In my previous life, I was an architecture student. Well, actually, in the late nineties. Or, as the kids these
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Food
Trying Out Fine Dining Spots
Blogging
Writing like ChatGPT
I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more
Blogging
Hopeless, Are Ya?
Blogging
Democracy as Top Dressing
Blogging
Ninety Minutes at a Time: My 2026 World Cup
I asked Claude to pull my published Ghost posts via the Admin API, extract all 230 `#WorldCup` toots from the six weekly digests spanning June 11–July 19, and rewrite them as a chronological first-person narrative, checking match dates/rounds against the actual World Cup schedule for accuracy.
Blogging
A local MCP for my photos
I've been trying out a couple of different apps, either with built-in MCP capabilities or ones that
India
Fight or Flight
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Visiting the Hawai’i Tropical Botanical Gardens
Blogging
Facial Recognition and Keyword Tagging in Photo Apps
I chanced upon a new photo app, Iris Photos for macOS, on Mastodon. It's intended to simply view
Macro
Using AI as a digital organizer
Two real examples of Claude handling file conversion and PDF renaming tasks. The case for letting AI do the mundane work, so you can focus on the rest.
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Dashed Expectations
What happens when a camp for kids who stutter gets filled with kids who don't — and nobody admits it went wrong?
Personal
Picking the Right Note-Taking App
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Defining Your Writing Style
I fed my blog posts into Claude and asked it to define my writing style. It did. Then, unprompted, told me my tone gets "impatient" on civic topics. I did not argue 😐
Blogging
Do the The Numbers Know My Taste Better Than I Do?
Over 900 films. 20 years of Letterboxd data. I ran the numbers on my own ratings. The patterns seem to be more honest than anything I'd admit out loud.
Politics
Redrawing India's Electoral Map
Macro
Automating Checks for Hold Period in Public Library
I asked Claude to cross-check my Hardcover 'Want to Read' list against the Austin Public Library's catalog. First run. No fixes needed.
Money
The Price You See vs. The Price You Pay
Two pricing systems, two blind spots. India hides the base price. The U.S. hides the final cost. Neither tells you the full number upfront. Click title to read in full.