Hi, I’m Chris

I make websites and things. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with Large Language Models (colloquially known as AI) to test their capabilities and to help make my job and D&D Dungeon Mastering life easier. Feel free to click around to learn more about stuff I like to do and/or am working on.

  • Notifications, 2

    Oh man. I’m stoked about this plugin. Part of the reason I’m so excited about it is because there’s no notification plugin in the WordPress.org repository called “Notifications”. Whaaat? Seriously? No one claimed that? It’s for reals, yo. The closest the repo has is WP Notifications. Now why would someone name a plugin WP Notifications…

  • wpslc

    wpslc

  • Notifications

    How many times have you wanted to display a sitewide notification on your site? I’ve needed it a lot on a variety of sites, and the plugins I’ve found in the repository left much to be desired. I decided to create my own, which is still in development, that I plan on uploading to WordPress.org.…

  • Hello, Ziggy

    Hello, Ziggy

    I’ve had this plugin installed on a number of my sites for a while now. It’s not much, in fact, it was my very first plugin, ever. I finally decided to upload it to the WordPress.org repository. I’m talking, of course, of my Hello Dolly fork, Hello Ziggy. All it does is adds a bit of…

  • now it’s for real. got my desk-mounted mic boom today.

    now it’s for real. got my desk-mounted mic boom today.

  • the smog decided to come down and say hi.

    the smog decided to come down and say hi.

  • WordPress and the GPL, round two

    This seems to happen every couple years. Something will come up, and suddenly the WordPress blogosphere is suddenly all a-Twitter (pun intended) about GPL-related issues. This time around, though, it isn’t an outright disregard for or ambivalence toward WordPress and the GPL, there are actual, seemingly good intentions involved, and unwilling participants caught in the crossfire, which…

  • Perspective

    When I was a meat-eater, I couldn’t fathom being vegetarian. It just didn’t seem possible. Then I cut out red meat and pork, but I couldn’t imagine not eating chicken or fish. Then I stopped eating chicken, but the choices for most vegetarians, it seemed, on menus when we went to restaurants was so limited, I thought that’s…

  • IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary

    In the end, Brown and his team were forced to remove the Urban Dictionary from Watson’s vocabulary, and additionally developed a smart filter to keep Watson from swearing in the future. via IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary. A more glorious misuse of technology could not have been conceived. Of course…

  • wheel on my screen

    wheel on my screen