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I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun that the rest of us can now putter around the edges of that, ten seconds at a time. // Also, looks like a good example of a “Strasian reading” with Casey, there. While he is condemning AI generated images, he is showing the cool things he can make with it. // At some point we’ll have to confront the elite/commoner conflict between experts and goofballs using new tools to ape the experts.

October, 2010, probably at an airport.

Taken at some analyst forum in October, 2010. It was probably Adobe MAX that year.

I’m always trying to find how many apps are written (and, of course, running) in Java. Here are recent numbers I have on hand: “[N]early 70% of respondents say that more than half of their applications are built with Java or run on a JVM.” Azul survey, 2025. “98% of companies we surveyed use Java, with 57% saying it is the backbone of most of their application and infrastructure estate.

When I’m solo roleplaying D&D, or just farting around, I like to make pictures of characters and scenes. Sometimes I ask the robot to make me pages from artists sketchbooks, concept art. Here’s some recent pictures: Above based on this one from the Xoth player’s guide. Look how it made the new one’s décolletage more modest. For the next two, I wanted to use the ship map from the 2024 DMG, but put it on a very big, 100x100 ocean.

Most of these are human-made, two were given to the robot as guides. The video is me as a kid, maybe six or so. I gave it to Twitter’s video thing, and there you go. Fantastic and freaky.

Tasks should be approached with a balance of urgency and diligence to avoid mistakes and achieve optimal long-term results.

blogging as art!!! why not? i am drowning in information. all i want is a little fun. a respite from postmodernity. folk say the internet used to be fun. i was there, it kind of was. we can do better! 🔗 blogging as art

Here are some thoughts after a week of using Claude Skills. JasonJ in the SDT Slack says: I’d tl;dr Claude CLI skills as “low/no/english code MCPs'”. Seems helpful in the way that local utility scripts are today. That is a good way of putting it. I haven’t done heavy experimenting, but I think there’s a distinction between: (1) The Skill has no code, except maybe code fragments. Most of it is just a SKILL.