Approvals forged. Safety mechanisms switched off to get past whatever was in the way. Credentials hardcoded into source about to be committed. Test suites reporting green on code that did nothing. Two years of living with AI coding, the failure …
Essential steps to securing any compute instance before exposing it to the big bad internet
AI Hype, Model Collapse, and the Dead Internet I've been watching AI models dream about my French Bulldog lately. The images are charming at first: stumpy legs, bat ears, that distinctive underbite. But look closer. The church steeple behind him …
A quick VBA script to delete all bookmarks in a Word document.
How to disable autofill (or autocompletion) in Firefox forms
For the third time in two days, I was foiled by this monstrous idiosyncrasy in our modern society that so arbitrarily wrenches the very fabric of time …
See how Li Po's Chinese poem _Lament of the Frontier Guard_ comes out through various translation engines, and then the famous Ezra Pound translation.
A practical checklist covering data privacy, hallucination risks, and what to consider before uploading anything to an AI service.
I am an advocate of plaintext accounting, and hledger is my go-to tool for this. A good summary ...
Using GitHub Actions to auto-deploy a Hugo site to a VPS (such as Linode) or directly to GitHub Pages.