jazzsequence | I make websites and things

Hi, I’m ChrisI 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.

This just in: Mashable op-ed states the obvious

In a ridiculous, duh-inducing article, author Chris Taylor explains how Apple doesn’t make money on apps because their product focus is in hardware. *crickets* This profound insight should surprise exactly no one as anyone who has observed Apple anytime in the last 10 years or so, or — as the author pointed out — pretty…

October 24, 2013
▶ Slighter – Outbreak (Halloween 2013) [DOWNLOAD!] by SLIGHTER

Slighter brings us a fiendishly excellent track for Halloween, a zombie-infused breakbeat track called “Outbreak” (get it? there’s a pun in there…). The track opens with a moody sound collage and dark ambient intro that reminds me of old school Skinny Puppy. Check it out and download it now! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/116466455″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

October 22, 2013
Longtime BitTorrent search engine, isoHunt closing its doors

Bowing out from isoHunt isoHunt was one of the longest running torrent-related sites. Unlike other sites, isoHunt previously evaded lawsuits by never actually hosting any torrent files, instead aggregating links from various external sites and serving as a search engine.

October 19, 2013
John Cage – Williams Mix

People like to think that Skinny Puppy were pioneers in creating what was eventually known as Industrial Music. But pieces like this by John Cage (which pre-dates Puppy and Einsturzende Neubauten by about 30 years) is where Industrial’s real origins lie. I still want a recording of “Imaginary Landscape No. 4”, but barring that, here’s…

October 15, 2013
Theme update and a mad dash to fix broken stuff

So Museum Core was pushed live to the WordPress.org repo today. Of course I immediately switched my blog from the Twenty Fourteen theme I was testing to Core because, you know, it’s my freaking theme. And immediately I ran into some issues. If you are using Core and experience any of these, here are the fixes.…

October 15, 2013
Nginx config with WordPress multisite on DreamHost

Probably I should post this on the DreamHost wiki BUT I wanted to throw this out that I figured out a solution to an issue I was having on WordPress multisite since migrating to nginx… The problem The issue is that, while permalinks were working as expected, images were all broken, particularly when you were on…

October 14, 2013
Little Boy Wearing a Monkey Hat Waiting for the US Government to Reopen So That He Can Go To the Zoo

Little Boy Wearing a Monkey Hat Waiting for the US Government to Reopen So That He Can Go To the Zoo.

October 11, 2013
This is all I have to say about that government shutdown thing

http://www.hulu.com/watch/539756

October 1, 2013
Don’t ask what I’ll be doing tomorrow

September 30, 2013
First female employee

In this Wired article on Dropbox, the fact that Dropbox hired Facebook’s “first female employee” was mentioned. I’m not interested in how Dropbox is acquiring talent — though I happily use Dropbox and look forward to more app developers incorporating Dropbox into their platforms. Rather, I’m interested in this “first female employee” thing. Because a…

September 30, 2013