Category: Opinion

  • Making My Site More Social

    As a bit of an experiment in decentralised social media, I’ve made some updates to my site so that I can use it for federated posts to Mastodon and Pixelfed. The idea is to find a way to ‘own’ my own data, especially photos. I’m broadly happy with how it is working, but a glitch…

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  • Very Specific Issue with Adobe Digital Editions

    How I fixed Adobe Digital Editions crashes when trying to get borrowed eBooks onto a Kobo eReader. I would post this on the help forums for Adobe Digital Editions, but I can’t find the needle in the haystack of different types of crash that the application presents, so in the spirit of being community minded,…

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  • Thinking Machines

    I like this post about ‘impressionist blogging’, mainly because it gives voice to a sense of how using generative AI as a tool shapes the work it serves. I still don’t know how generative AI will work its way into my life. For all the risks that it poses, there are myriad interesting possibilities. But…

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  • Will It Hurt Anyone, Can I Trust It, & Will It Make Me Look Stupid?

    I feel very uncertain about where we are with AI in practical use. It is unavoidable (literally, every time I open Illustrator, I get prompted to use generative AI) and certainly convenient. I’m also too aware, though, of the flip side of AI to feel very comfortable using it. Indeed, an AI holiday planning mishap…

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  • Threads

    I joined Mastodon during one of the waves of user migrations after Elon Musk took over Twitter, and I have to say, I like it there. So I didn’t really know what to make of Threads when people started talking about it.

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