Category: geek of technology
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Keep the web weird
I’ve seen a lot of doomsaying about the death of the internet. Last night, I was reading about how integrated AI answers in search results leads to a drastic drop in clicks to the actual sites from which AIs derive the information to answer those questions or make those suggestions. It’s been noted that AI…
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What does it feel like to be banned from WordPress? I’ll tell you
Last Wednesday, a ban was lifted from my WordPress.org account that had been there since sometime in January (or possibly before). I discovered that I was banned on January 6th. I did not receive any communication, any notification, any reason for the block. I assumed it was a mistake. I wasn’t the only one. Many…
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Community + Code
Sé Reed took this picture of my water bottle at PressConf. “That’s epic,” she said. I agree. I assume she saw in it the same thing I did when I found it — ourselves. The funny thing is, despite this sentiment being prevalent amonst those of us that have been in the WordPress community for…
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The Lovecraft Test, Gemini
I’ve been sitting on this one for longer than I should have (and then, obviously, forgetting entirely about it). After putting DeepSeek through the ropes for my Lovecraft test, I decided to try Google’s Gemini. I haven’t used Gemini much, although I have used NotebookLLM which is based on Gemini, and I think it generally…
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A WordPresser goes to DrupalCon
I’ll be going to my first DrupalCon next week. I can’t say that I’ve always wanted to go to DrupalCon, but I’ve certainly been curious about it since joining Pantheon because it’s always been such a huge part of Pantheon’s ecosystem and we’re always a big sponsor. And over the last few months, between #WPDrama…
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The life of a developer
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You have a broad plan. Say, you want to move your website to a new host. I’ve been running this site (which is a WordPress multisite that also includes my partner’s blog, the blog we originally created to share pictures of our kids, a personal portflolio-type site…
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The Lovecraft Test, DeepSeek Edition
The stupidly big news in LLMs right now is that DeepSeek, a LLM built by a small Chinese team that was released a couple weeks ago, performs as well as, if not better than larger, more sophisticated (at least in terms of the dollars and hardware thrown at it) models by OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude)…
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The H.P. Lovecraft Test, round 3
I’ve run this test twice already and I figured it was probably about time to try it again. If you’ve been reading my AI posts (which is all I post anymore), you may remember past incarnations of what I like to call The Lovecraft Test. I ran it very early on with ChatGPT when it…
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Aging an AI-generated character
Historically, prompting ChatGPT (or DALL-E through ChatGPT) for variations or subtle modifications of a single image results in a sort of image degeneration. Not only does the image not get reproduced with the slight variations, but it gets further and further away from what you originally requested. This is something that has been noted on…
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Rick Astley Ten Ways
Lately, I’ve been playing a lot with Suno. Suno is an AI that makes music based on your prompts. It’s actually pretty good at it, too. It lacks the ability to edit songs, and the songs it creates will always be based on some formulaic foundation, but so much of popular music is that it…